kind of interested in this tumblr-like platform being made for the fediverse. i hope it works out.

every form of social media is terrible. you pick through the garbage for that glimmering diamond of necessary social interaction. you can find it, but your hands still reek.

It disgusts me that there are people who would be cool with what she did if the girl had actually been trans.

It's disgusting because 'let's speculate about this person's genitals' is a bullying game that's been played forever, against trans, cis, intersex, and perisex kids, to keep us all in line. In our boxes. How real are the lines if they have to be so strictly enforced? What if we just let kids experiment and learn without bullying them and teaching other kids to bully them? Some will be trans and need care, some won't. Some will never quite figure it out. It could be fine if we let it be!

Stop bullying kids! Stop posting their pictures to mock them!

And bullying girls who look slightly different has not been forced on you by these woke times. People like you were not accepting of normal differences in girls before. What a joke! No one ever called a cis girl mannish before now? Yeah, right.

If privacy is a right (which i believe, to some degree), what does that entail?

For me it means that even people who are incapable (the young, people with intellectual disabilities or dementia, etc) or unwilling to learn tech should still have a basic right to privacy online.

And people who do care and are capable should consider those people's privacy when working to create privacy protecting laws. It's also worth considering while building new privacy oriented technologies, but course it's more complicated asking for someone to do more when it's just them and maybe another person building an app as a personal project. Demanding more work for an unpaid hobby project is too much. It's more important larger organizations and government bodies get on board.

If it's a right, isn't it also for people who haven't earned it? But rights, to me, are ideals we've decided as a group deserve to be upheld for everyone and are worth working for. If we think freedom from violence within the family is a right, then I deserve it even if I don't participate in running a dv shelter or understand the complexity of social violence. Right? But who do we decide does the work for those who can't?

Is it complicated, or am I just making it complicated?

Is it useful for people with limited tech knowledge? Is the organization trustworthy? I don't know enough about any of this to vet it, but a basic primer would be useful for me and my even less tech savvy relatives.

Tried to get a picture of her completely asleep on the pathfinder stuff, but he got jealous of the attention.