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   Soatok Dreamseeker (soatok@furry.engineer)'s status on Thursday, 18-Jun-2026 02:15:19 JST Soatok Dreamseeker

   Just had a great conversation with @eff and Luísa Franco Machado from EquiLabs

   https://www.youtube.com/live/1hG2kx2w-2o

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     Soatok Dreamseeker (soatok@furry.engineer)'s status on Thursday, 18-Jun-2026 03:30:31 JST Soatok Dreamseeker

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     On the note of "meet people where they are"

     On some level, this does mean techies do need to talk to and listen to real people if they hope to build tech that helps said people.

     On a simpler note, it also means building for sex workers, not speculative investors. We don't need more cryptocurrency grifting.

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     Soatok Dreamseeker (soatok@furry.engineer)'s status on Thursday, 18-Jun-2026 03:34:24 JST Soatok Dreamseeker

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     • Luna :neofox_snug:

     @lunareclipse You're not imaginary, you're just complex

     (Sorry, math joke)

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     Luna :neofox_snug: (lunareclipse@snug.moe)'s status on Thursday, 18-Jun-2026 03:34:26 JST Luna :neofox_snug:

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     @soatok The first time I read this post my takeaway was that I'm not real and my dissociated ass was like "yeah that makes sense", and then I reread it and realized it was about listening to real users instead of your imagination of what a user would be.

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     Cendyne (cendyne@furry.engineer)'s status on Thursday, 18-Jun-2026 03:40:49 JST Cendyne

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     • Luna :neofox_snug:

     @soatok @lunareclipse euler gender...

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     Intaglio Whitegraven (intaglio_dragon@furry.engineer)'s status on Thursday, 18-Jun-2026 05:29:51 JST Intaglio Whitegraven

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     @soatok There's a parallel to politics, or at least there should be. Legislators writing laws that affect groups of people, ought to invite representatives of those groups of people to have a direct say in the process.

     Allegedly, New Zealand's parliament directly sought the input of sex workers when writing laws such as the Prostitution Reform Act of 2003: https://www.legislation.govt.nz/act/public/2003/0028/latest/whole.html

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     Tindra (tindrasgrove@infosec.exchange)'s status on Thursday, 18-Jun-2026 10:03:58 JST Tindra

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     @soatok some years ago I remember someone pointing out that sex workers weren’t swarming to cryptocurrency, and if there’s a community that *needs* to break out modern banking it’s them. And that tells you something about cryptocurrency.

     So, yeah, designing for sex workers is definitely the way to go!

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     James 🌈💜 (shaknais@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 19-Jun-2026 01:26:12 JST James 🌈💜

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     @soatok

     Sex work is 100% legal in my country. There's regs, but also protected classes.

     ... Visa and Mastercard still unilaterally cancel brothel accounts without notice, and require the regulator to step in to restore them.

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     nonstandard girl (kirakira@furry.engineer)'s status on Monday, 22-Jun-2026 01:24:17 JST nonstandard girl

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     @soatok @eff as an aside it's very cool that you both got onto this and went as your sona