Dear UK residents. I’m sorry to be tedious, but I’m going to do the trans Cassandra thing again.
The government is now moving towards regarding trans people as effective children until the age of 25.
This will be established as precedent and then used to screw over any and all young adults who can’t escape from abusive parents, especially young women.
If you want to do anything about this, you need to fight for trans people. Yes, you. Now.
We all know that isn’t going to happen to any significant extent though.
As you were.
It’s true that capitalists and other parasitic elites often use violence when the people over whom they rule try to shake off that rule, I agree. For most of history, it was the oppressed rather than the oppressors who died in these situations, though.
As Mark Twain pointed out in “A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court,” we often bemoan the violence of revolution, but in reality there were two Reigns of Terrors in France—that of the fanatical elements of the French Revolution, but also centuries of constant, daily, grinding violence by the aristocracy against the peasantry that we somehow don’t look on with the same disgust.
@Moon Yeah the level of research ethics varies a lot with disciplines and countries, which is also why we shouldn't just rely on that. Making it easier to respect wishes will go a long way though.
As for research on the fediverse I agree that it will be even more skewed demographically than Twitter if you want to make claims about 'people online' or whatever. However I think there are specific areas of research that the fediverse allows for. On interoperability and governance for example as there is a lot of corporate misinformation on that front. In European commission hearings Facebook for example claimed that e2ee interoperable chat was not technically possible, as a way to soften the interoperability requirements for their chat offerings..
@atomicpoet @j_bertolotti I personally love the design here by the way.
It would be interesting to hear from folks who aren't familiar with the Fediverse whether or not this kind of stuff makes sense though.
As I was saying before, it's harder to market the network.
'Connected to the Fediverse' I imagine would be ambiguous to people who don't know what it is. It could be easy to draw the conclusion that you can 'Log in with Mastodon, PixelFed, etc' rather than what it's really describing.
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