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   Alexandre Oliva (lxo@gnusocial.net)'s status on Wednesday, 10-Jul-2024 09:30:18 JST Alexandre Oliva

   • Anna e só
   I'm not sure the one you allude to is the same that crossed my timeline and that I responded to a couple of days ago, but that one was about a resurfaced years-old pull request that proposed changing pronouns in documentation, that faced a poor "no politics" response. alas, linking to the pull request would feed the cancellation underway, that I oppose because I find it about as oppressive as the worst-case theory behind the poor response.
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     Alexandre Oliva (lxo@gnusocial.net)'s status on Wednesday, 10-Jul-2024 10:08:41 JST Alexandre Oliva

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     • Anna e só
     I wouldn't be someone to criticize abstraction. I often resort to it to try to bypass preconceived emotional hotspots. it's a useful tool, but it sometimes backfires, when people instantiate the abstraction in a way I couldn't predict, and assigns to me a hateful position on it that I don't hold, without making room for correcting that assumption. but I digress :-)
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     Anna e só (anna@friend.camp)'s status on Wednesday, 10-Jul-2024 10:08:42 JST Anna e só

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     @lxo I think I’ve seen someone mention a situation like the one you’ve described, but in a way that seemed to allude it wasn’t the only example of a behavior people were discussing?

     I don’t need “receipts” (i.e. direct links, direct mentions), but it’s so helpful when someone is open to describing the situation as is. I won’t deny I did what I’m criticizing many times, but during my time off Mastodon, I realized I miss some directness in the way we speak and discuss current and past events.