We don't need a special term for non-trannies any more than we need a special term for people who aren't midgets, or for people who have an "adult woman fetish". In all of those cases, "normal" serves every descriptive purpose you could ask for, unless your goal is to make normality seem no different from freakishness.
Also, "cis", "cisgendered" etc is just extremely obnoxious fagspeak that makes anyone using those words unironically sound like the world's biggest bitch.
This is our 3rd quarterly update on which platforms are growing, new entries such as #BlueSky, #Substack Notes, #Nostr & all public data on Meta's #project92 Includes latest on the #RedditMigration, New polling, new posting data & more.
don't forget, when talking about features and interfaces, that there are different interfaces and apps that people could be using, if they're even using a mastodon instance rather than some other fediverse software. not all apps expose all features. sometimes we find ourselves in situations similar to telling someone else to locate the red-highlighted text in an email, just to find out that the person is reading email with a braille interface
#TwitterMigration
THREAD: I made a series of images for an Instagram post I made about migrating to the fediverse. I figured I'd share with anyone else who wants to use, so I included some blank template versions too. DM if you'd like the Adobe Illustrator file so you can make your own edits. And please,comment if I got anything wrong so I can correct it.
…invite-only, that's not "elitist" of course 🙄) - "thoughtful" articles show up asking questions about "how will Lemmy monetize", etc; and pointing out that choosing an instance is "confusing". - the wave eventually subsides; plenty of people stay on Threadiverse, some don't; this gets reported as "Lemmy has failed".
We know all this from the #TwitterMigration. Point is, just as "Mastodon" has not failed (it's order of magnitude bigger than before!), Threadiverse will not have failed either.
"... everyone (myself included) who is still on Twitter has some hard questions to ask themselves. There is no pretending any more that Twitter is anything other than a far-right social network headed by a CEO who revels in chaos and is platforming extremism. So why are news organisations still on it? Why is anyone who considers themselves to have liberal values still on it?
"Ego is probably the main answer to that question. A lot of journalists have built up very large followings on Twitter. Nostalgia is another factor ..."
@kiriappeee@lohang I don't think this is a culture of the 'verse as much as it is of mastodon/Eugene. Yes Mastodon is by far the largest platform but I'm not certain if that's because more users prefer such design decisions, or if they didn't realize there were other options to stay connected with Friends, particularly during the #TwitterMigration. If people don't want their posts serachable, they could set their privacy to "friends only" but I don't know if Mastodon has that option either.
Fediverse Searches :fediverse: - a reminder to everyone that there's already *at least* a couple of powerful search engines out there in the wider #Fediverse that are far more powerful than Mastodon's hashtag based search. Both I am aware of seem to be *currently* assuming Public-posts are opt-IN by default
While I'm communicating this for my own #trans :flag_transgender: community it applies to us ALL so if in doubt, *do* consider using "Followers only" and "Unlisted" posts more on a case-by-case basis to restrict access on what *can* be widely indexed and searched as both of these seem to honour this. For me it's been an awareness-check, no more no less
2. Calckey => discussions on this are in Codeberg - ref at least 9397 and 10007
Please don't beat me up on what *already* exists technically and may be in refinement / development. I simply want to raise awareness for everyone's wider online safety
If this is true, if Musk actually does this, then this would be Musk's stupidest idea ever. The headline seriously understates the impact. It will end Twitter.
"... in a move that nobody seemed to ask for, Twitter will apparently let users call anyone on the app, whether you follow them or not."
When you post on Twitter(1) or Bluesky(2) you grant them a broad perpetual license to use, modify, and sublicense your content. You effectively make them co-owners of your content. They can mine it and monetize it. They can even sell it. When you post on Mastodon(3) most instances take no license at all. That's right, they tell you what they are doing with your content—storing posts and delivering them—but no license.
I've decided to ACTIVELY decouple from Twitter: Every day, I go back and DM at least 10 of my followers, telling them I've moved here and to follow me here instead (I remove them as followers after that DM). A number of them have set up accounts as a result.
Please do the same if you're more active here than on #Twitter That's how you can help the #twittermigration