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Cake day: June 12th, 2023

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  • The whole point of the trans movement, is recognising that beyond a small number of very specific biological truths, that the majority of gendered experiences are entirely social.

    i.e. being viewed as masculine or feminine, is as arbitrary as deciding whether you’re goth or emo or punk

    So I guess what I’m saying, is that from your post, I’m sensing that you’re finding that strict societal don’t really resonate with you. You don’t feel especially stereotypically feminine or stereotypically masculine, or perhaps sometimes you feel a bit of both, or some other combination.

    And at the tame time, you’re saying “please don’t tell me I’m trans” - and frankly, that makes perfect sense to me, because if the whole problem is rejecting labels in general, why would you want another one?

    Not that I know anything, but it seems to me that you might try just letting go of the idea of gender being something that matters to you completely.

    Like, personally I’m not punk, or emo, or alt, or goth, or country. Sometimes I listen to these genres, sometimes I don’t. Sometimes I’ll dress and express myself with hints of these genres, sometimes I don’t. Mostly I’m not really any of them.

    And if someone says “do you like punk music”, I can say “Yeah sometimes” or “I’m not in the mood”, or “Oh yeah, lets do it”. And if they say “Yeah but you’re not really punk”, I don’t really mind one way or another. I don’t have to be anything really.

    I don’t see why you couldn’t approach gender the same way. I don’t see why you have to commit to, or justify your specific interpersonal or social choices. If one day you want to do something that’s viewed as super masculine, cool! if another day you reject certain masculine things, or even the same masculine thing - that’s cool too! And that doesn’t even need to make you “trans”.

    Beyond specific medical/biological concerns, most of this stuff is just words, and it’s all made up.






  • I’m probably going to be on both.

    It was pretty surprising how easy it was to create an account and a not-to-bad feed. All of the communities I like don’t yet exist on lemmy, but there’s nothing preventing them from starting up, and the structure is very good.

    Reddit has already created a permanent scar in it’s user base. This event has seeded a minority of users on lemmy/kbin/whatever. And there will be more again on July 1 when the various 3rd party apps stop working.

    Even if reddit just stops there and doesn’t do anymore detrimental things to it’s user base that scar is permanent. There’s enough users on here now to be self-sustaining for a few small communities at least. And anytime in the future that reddit pulls some shit - which given their corporate structure, it looks like they will - more users are going to look for alternatives and many will end up here.

    For someone like me - that’ll just mean more time here and less time on reddit, until eventually it’ll be only on here - just like Digg, just like Fark, just like all the other ones.



  • This sort of thing is quite different technically.

    With Inkscape, blender and gimp - the main draw is an extremely complicated UI that produces image files. A social network is just sending text around back and forth.

    The beauty here is the activitypub spec. The way it works is like:

    ActivityPub Protocol <- Lemmy Backend <- Lemmy Client

    Building a replacement backend or client is comparatively trivial. Making a good one would be hard, of course, but a single developer could whip up something that’s technically a lemmy client, or technically a activitypub backend over a weekend.

    That decoupled layering, the idea that each bit just does one comparatively simple thing, is intentional.

    If lemmy/kbin catch on (which it looks like they are), it will be not long at all before there are a a plethora of tools and clients cross platform.