Fosstodon is one of the most inoffensive, milquetoast fediverse servers ever, and the admin who "got them into trouble" really didn't say or do anything offensive whatsoever.
If I remember correctly, he just expressed extremely mild pushback against some zealous ultra-woke take on reddit, and for that he was made out to be a freaking "fascist" so Fosstodon is now considered a "nazi bar."
(Feel free to remind me of the details of what he's supposed to have done. As usual, most people will avoid mentioning the exact allegations, and just speak with a vague sense of "he's a horrible person who did horrible things" so people are afraid to even ask, let alone scrutinize the dominant narrative.)
As I keep saying over and over again: If I weren't so blackpilled about human irrationality, if I weren't a big fan of Hanlon's Razor, I would immediately conclude that all of this is some sort of right-wing / proprietary-corpo psyop to destroy left wing politics as well as free software from within.
But no, it seems people really believe in this bullcrap and push it in earnest.
My problem is that I expect better of nerds. Dudes who are into Emacs, Lisp/Scheme, Nix, yadda yadda, and are lefty/liberal/progressive overall, thus extremely similar to me in so many ways... Why the hell do they fall for the most irrational, regressive, pseudo-scientific BS ever like "trans women are women"?
I really don't enjoy the company of normies, nor rightoids. I used to enjoy the company of the aforementioned kind of person, but then they all suddenly turned into idiots too, so there's nobody left. (Radfems I've only ever seen as political allies, since they're male-exclusionary, and culturally very dissimilar to me.)
That's where my frustration comes from. I've encountered yet another pair of guys like that yesterday, and it made me crash out, hence the OP. I'm not sure why this pistolero dude thought he needs to comment, because it has nothing to do with him. He just seems like a weirdo with an over-inflated ego who can't ever stop yapping. I think he's probably a dumb right-winger but I can't even tell because his posts are 99% noise. I'd rather go to a soothsayer for advice.
@dagda@p I really just have zero respect for that guy. He's a babbling idiot who keeps writing insane walls of text, usually to defend some stupid point. I usually keep him muted.
@Suiseiseki Don't worry, I will also outlaw proprietary software. In fact, "intellectual property" and copyright will be wholesale abolished and all companies immediately forced to publish all source code.
Hentai with unambiguously adult characters will be tolerated so long as its consumers register themselves so they can be monitored.
Pimps will receive the death penalty.
Any person trying to pay someone for sex will have to pay the amount he would have paid, every month, to an organisation fighting human trafficking or supporting survivors of prostitution. For the rest of his life.
@hj AGP itself shouldn't be stigmatized TBH. Sadly some overly aggressive AGPs have ruined it for everyone. I have mild AGP and when I mention this I sometimes have people making really weird assumptions about me. Like, I had someone ask "have you mentioned to your girlfriend that you're AGP??" and I'm like ... it's not who I am, bro. :blobcat-comfysweat: It's not that I "am" AGP, I just have mild AGP. It's not like I'm doomed to behave in certain ways and can't help myself or anything. I've never shopped for or worn women's clothes, for example. I'd probably enjoy it but CBA. It's not that serious...
It's like someone liking pineapple on pizza. If your partner is disgusted by pineapple on pizza, then you just don't put pineapple on the pizza when you have pizza together. (And if she doesn't want you to have pizza without her, then you just don't ever get to eat pizza with pineapple anymore... Which is fine?? It's not like I'm gonna die if I don't eat pizza with pineapple??)
@hj I don't agree. There seems to be a significant subgroup of men who have always been very effeminate from childhood, come out as gay in adolescence, and start to identify as trans quite young, usually ending up fitting in relatively well with women without too much effort...
It's not "sexual" per se, but likely due to not being able to fit in with boys, and feeling more at ease mingling with girls, so they end up thinking they were "ought to be" a girl. If the sexism and homophobia experienced by someone is sufficiently bad, it becomes easier for a young mind to conceptualize themselves as a "girl born in the wrong body" ("it's my body's fault, not mine; I'm just a normal girl actually") than as an "effeminate gay boy" ("eww faggot, what's wrong with him"). It allows one to deflect one's insecurities outwards from the mind (identity), and externalize them towards the body, dissociating from the body and convincing oneself that it's not part of the "true" self.
Very different from what is now the majority of MtF trans, who are nerdy, mostly-straight guys, who either get off from cross-dressing and pornified performances of effeminacy, or in some cases, yearning for being "allowed" to express "effeminate" behavior that is normally verboten to males. In case you haven't read my blog post about this, I'd recommend it: https://blogs.feministwiki.org/socjuswiz/2019/10/20/masculinity-anime-and-gender-dysphoria/
@hj Why do you say HSTS is bullshit? It seems much rarer nowadays, relatively speaking I mean, but pretty sure it still exists. During my forays into gender critical social media-sphere, I've encountered a bunch of HSTS who were critical of the transgender movement, since it's mostly led by AGPs and HSTS don't really have much benefit from it / are potentially harmed by it since it decreases societal acceptance when AGPs represent them.
Redis recently became "source-available" and most people probably don't know the difference between "source-available" and "open-source" because they sound like the same thing. After all, the source code of "source-available" software is open to public view, so it's literally "open (to public view) source (code)."
The term "free" is sadly confusing as well, since English is dumb, but at least it's associated with freedom. So, instead of using "open source" and trying to make sure people know that it's meant to be more than just open, I'd rather use "free software" and try to make sure people know that it's meant as in freedom.