Notices by Kezkch (kezkch@miruku.cafe)

Casual Ableism from a content creator.

#YouTube, #foss, #floss, #opensource, #freesoftware, #linux, #abelism, #actuallyadhd, #actuallyautistic.

Fair enough. Something to keep in mind is that each and every one of us are entitled to our freedom of expression and freedom of speech as a core human right. To deny you of either would be to violate your human rights and in turn dehumanize you.

Doesn't matter whether you are transgender, non-binary, otherkin or etc. It is your right to identify however you please, whether that be within or beyond the scope of binary sex. That said, your right to freedom of expression doesn't grant you provide you immunity from those exercising their freedom of expression. If someone happens to misgender you or say discriminatory stuff toward or about you. Take appropriate measures by distancing yourself from such people, raise your concerns about it if done in an educational or professional environment and above all else feel comfortable with yourself.

The moment you allow someone to undermine your confidence over minor and trivial sleights such as what pronouns are used, you open yourself to being criticised or attacked over tired talking points used by gender critical and bigoted individuals.

It's not easy nor practical to just say, "Just be comfortable with yourself" when there are numerous things can serve as a source of anxiety for transgender individuals. Telling you to just "not give a shit" is easier said than done and something that I'm sure that we can all sympathize with being neurodivergent ourselves.

That said, when you do start to not care, you'll find that the typical stuff used to demean and dehumanize transgender individuals will just bounce off you at some point. Took going through depression for me to acquire that degree of indifference, though I would be lying if I said that it stuff doesn't bother me entirely.

Keep your chin up and go forward with confidence in knowing that so long as you still have those human rights, that you'll still be welcome in modern society with open arms. Though there will always be that loud minority of people that continue to hold backwards and antiquated ideals.

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@thegreatape@hollow.raccoon.quest @Hyolobrika@social.fbxl.net

Pretty much summed it all up after someone asked what 'Big Mastosoc' was. The reason I made the distinction of calling Mastodon a network within the Fediverse is because it is what they call themselves, and most Mastodon instances tend to defer to the judgement of these precompiled blocklists effectively becoming one giant echo chamber.

The reason I included most instances that *aren't* Mastodon as being part of the 'alternative fediverse' is because you'll find no shortage of instances which fall on the fringes of political incorrectness which are fairly administered yet occasionally federate with 'the usual suspects'. Miruku.cafe is but one such example of that. Just because we don't have poa.st blacklisted doesn't make us fascists, nazis, bigots, etc, etc. That tends to be the attitude most Mastodon instances apply to those that are more permissive with whom they federate. Guilt by association.

Between that and targetting Pleroma as a platform for the belief that it is built for and by Nazis and Soapbox on account of its creator, it doesn't paint a very good image of Mastodon to those who do reside beyond their iron curtain.

@BeAware@social.beaware.live @TheGreatLlama@kolektiva.social

How accurate is this?Mastodon is one of many pieces of software made to interface with the Fediverse which is a type decentralized social media. There's Pleroma, Misskey, Soapbox and their numerous forks which comprise the most popularly used server software for spinning up your own fediverse instance. Mastodon is one such piece of Fediverse software which makes up the 'Mastodon network'. The Mastodon network is a sort of inner circle within the Fediverse which is comprised solely of Mastodon servers for various interests and niches.

Beyond that inner circle is what they refer to as the 'Alt Fedi' or 'Alternative Fediverse'. Which is more or less every other Fediverse instance that isn't Mastodon which also uses the ActivityPub protocol to federate with other servers on the decentralized network that is the Fediverse. Alt Fedi, or sometimes referred to as 'Dark fedi' is often characteristics as the wild west of fediverse instances where anything within reason goes.

You'll sometimes find marginalized groups that aren't part of the Mastodon network which use other fediverse software like Misskey or forks of it on the alternative fediverse. They tend to curate their experience through selectively blocking instances using fediblocking which serves as an instance-wide ignore function. Then there are your typical instances which can range from shitposters, channers and chuds which tend to not have any filters on the range of their speech. As such, you'll find these instances listed as "Alt Fedi" or your usual assortment of buzzwords listed as the reason for why they were blocked by that instance.

Mastodon is predominantly made up a minority of progressives that shout the loudest which left Twitter prior to Elon announcing his interest in purchasing the platform then later came in droves after he burnt it to the ground. They tend to be laughed at and mocked by the larger Fediverse for their tendency to equate that Mastodon equates to the entire Fediverse and their various attempts at trying to police the entirety of it rather than doing the sensible thing and keeping an allow list rather than a block list. Most notable of these attempts at policing the Fediverse has been the unified blocklist which is maintained by Oliphant of Oliphant.social, Seirdy of pleroma.envs.net, WelshPixie of Mastodon.art and a couple of other instances which make up the so-called 'Fedi council'. There has also been attempts by another individual beyond their clique at compiling a blocklist, namely the bad space which was bankrolled by begging on #mutualaid.#fedimeta, #mastodon, #soapbox, #misskey, #blocklist, #fediblock,