In the mastadon model your moderation is handled by making you the vassal of a single sysadmin / administration. More anarchistic would be multiple overlaping content moderators you could use as filters, but even more anarchistic is congealing the filters from the bottom up.
Basically the problem with mastadon/gnusocial is that it functions like a neoreactionary patchwork rather than an anarchist network. Folks migrating between small city states that each offer a monopoly on moderation, rather than building moderation fluidly from the bottom up.
GNU social is characterized by two major dynamics:
1) nazis and anon trolls are marginalized efficiently
2) local instances (smaller walled gardens / statelets) are unsustainable, centralized, and constantly in drama/schism.
(2) is because of insufficiently anarchist topology
re: Medicalization, eugenics, -phobias and -isms, an addendum
This is an interesting video that shares a lot of how I see medicalization and its effects on the discourse surrounding diability and neurodivergence : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hWZx4Y7Cpq8
re: Medicalization, eugenics, trans/enbyphobia and ableism
Plus, i no longer feel the need to babysit the egos of those who might get offended at the suggestion that having nazi beliefs makes you a nazi.
re: Medicalization, eugenics, trans/enbyphobia and ableism
So this is why I have no reservations against saying that all transmeds, truscum and TERFs are nazis, because their ideologies lead to eugenics.
Medicalization, eugenics, trans/enbyphobia and ableism
Reminder that all -medicalism roads lead to eugenics.
Society is designed in a lot of ways without considerations for people who are neurodivergent, who does not have full bodily functions, and/or transgender people, and it ends up being inimical to our day-to-day functions as a result. Yet, we are taught since child birth that we are the problem, stigmatizing us, and teaching us to feel ashamed of being different, because different is bad, and the only way to fix it is to "fix" us so that we change, so that we are genetically screened away before we can even be conceived.
It fails to address cases like myself where I am comfortable being otherkin, plural, autistic and non-binary, and don't want nor need to be "cured" nor does it deal our assertion that any disadvantage we experience from it is a social construct.
Ultimately, ableism, transphobia, enbyphobia, psychophobia, and the medicalization of these conditions as conditions to be cured...they all lead to eugenics.
Crowdfunding, asking for financial aid
So Credit Card companies are complete garbage and pushed a $3000 debt on my sibling Alice out of nowhere, because fuck you that's why.
Apparently there were things that were left unpaid that they only waited until now to tell them.
In any case, if there's anything you can do to help, send some donations their way here : https://twitter.com/AliceGrimaude/status/1224394787249442816
Eat the rich, burn credit card companies to the ground.
still thinking about software and abuse patterns
...it's expected, as a design best practice, that designers should seek to control the users' actions. It's expected that designers will pick out the things they want the users to do - connect Facebook accounts, enter phone numbers, buy microtransaction currencies, et cetera and so on - and make it easy to do those things and difficult to avoid doing those things. It's likewise expected that designers will pick out things they want the users not to do - block ads, delete their account, close the standalone app outright instead of just shrinking to taskbar - and make those things difficult to do.
And "easy" and "difficult" here mean operationally but also /emotionally/. Pleading, guilt-tripping, badgering, pestering, misleading ... if the designer wants it, the designer can do anything that isn't blatantly illegal to try to get it out of the user.
That's abuser logic.
That's an abuser thought process and it produces abusive behavior.
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Research findings on hormone treatment, surgery for trans minors
From journalistsresource.org: What the research says about hormone treatments and gender confirming surgery for #transgender minors (there are purportedly 150000 trans persons aged 13-17, although statistics on who is trans are always to be treated with skepticism) https://journalistsresource.org/studies/society/gender-society/gender-confirmation-surgery-transgender-youth-research/
Artist and Composer. Trans plural voidpunk anarchist and antifa nonbinary gremlin. My voice is for the oppressed, and I shall fight for freedom with no quarter, so that those around me won't have to.
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