If it wasnt too many in this context youd be posting some very cute pics instead.

You could go old school and put up posters on the street. or if there are any local message boards

like physical message boards

put up a notice. Sometimes grocery stores, convenience stores, parks, bars, coffee shops or other gathering places have these.

@nightauthor@kbin.social I don't think you followed the story here.

The issue was the use of a specific word, that is now uncouth, but with which OP identifies

The author of this post is not trans. A trans person is someone who is assigned a sex at birth (usually based on apparent genitalia) who as they mature, feels this to have been incorrect. OP provides the following personal context and maybe this confused:

I was a bisexual male who was programming computers and having having gay sex in 1984, when most of the people online today weren't even born yet. I was wearing makeup and dresses in public, before the Calckey crowd had even heard of the word "drag".

He describes himself as a bisexual male. He feels the need to substantiate this by mentioning a specific time(s) he had sex with another man, in 1984. Being bisexual does not give you a free pass to stop learning for 40 years.

He then starts talking about drag. Drag is an exaggeration of gender characteristics and display for the purpose of entertainment. Drag happens in a show, a performance, on a stage. While there is overlap between drag cultures and trans people, trans people do not really appreciate being thought of as "in drag" because they are not putting on a show, they are just going about their lives. He describes himself as cross dressing as a way to sort of give the impression that he should be permitted to use in-group slang. He also goes on to mention that in the past he has read comments on the internet using this word as self description. Which for someone who thinks they are such an independent thinker, standing up against group think, the rationalization of "I read it on the internet" as an excuse for anything really is pretty weak shit.

Sounds like when he was a young person he experimented with feminine fashion styles but wasn't motivated to keep at it. Lots of cis (non trans) guys wear a dress, eyeliner, nailpolish etc on occasion, especially in youth. It is irrelevant to the question at hand. Probably it served to reinforce his masculine identity. A lot of people try something like that out and go "nah, not for me". Even some cis men continue with cross dressing as a recreational activity over the years, but without any desire to transition to female in their day to day. Those guys are also not trans.

Later, he justifies the comment he made as

a playful suggestion of my sexual openness towards transsexual people.

Was anybody asking if he was sexually open to trans people? From how the original context is described, I do not see any indication that the sexual attractiveness of trans people was a topic of conversation. The original meme was a picture of someone's front lawn.

As a general rule: It is not considered polite to bring your sexual thoughts into public conversation. I disagree that the comment would have been innocuous if he had used different language. From his own description it sounds like he was making a gross, creepy comment.

I've definitely been misunderstood myself,

This person wasn't misunderstood. He does not understand. And from the evidence presented, he doesn't care to. He replied to a post containing 3 words. 2 of which he didn't understand. And there is nothing to show any curiosity whatsoever. The crux of his argument seems to be that young people are always wrong.

He also seems to think it self evident that he is too old to learn. Hard disagree from me on that one too. Lots of old people keep learning right up til their last day on earth. Even older than he is. He is making a choice because it reinforces his self-image of being a contrarian without any effort. I kept expecting some sort of nuance to appear in the article because the page was so long but I don't think there is literally a single sentence int he whole thing that even suggests he used his brain for anything other than feeling sad for himself.

from what i gather in the blog post, this person actively seeks out spaces which are "run by yo-yos" then complains about it.

This guy wrote a long-self pitying blog post about how he has been victimized due to not having got the memo about T------ being a slur. He claims to have been acting in good faith but misunderstood. It is extremely boring cataloguing various accounts and how he has been mistreated everywhere. He narrates his participation in communities where by his own accounting, he plainly does not understand the topic at hand and was being argumentative and trollish. Apparently he received bad vibes from this which I think is meant to evoke sympathy.

Eventually we get to the conflict (such as there is any) in the story when he makes a weird fetishising comment containing a slur. From the context provided I don't really get the impression that it was a place where sexual comments were probably on topic and I am guessing it would still have been creepy if he expressed a similar thought without using a slur.

The author uses the unredacted slur throughout the post. There is nothing resembling evidence that he has taken any time at all to attempt to learn what the "misunderstanding" was.

Just to show how easy it is to find, here is the wikipedia which is shorter than this comment^1^ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tranny

He concludes with what I think due to the formatting is a ?poem?. You do not have to read any of the rest of it you will understand everything from this:

Welcome to this corner of the Fediverse.

You can move all your followers, in theory.

Your censor is not a black-box Algorithm, but a community of fallible, groupthink-infected people. Beware the tyranny of the majority.

Your new overlord is not some evil corporate Billionaire, but an entirely like-able nonbinary Jewish Gay hacker who is a wise idiot at UC Irvine.

• By "the majority" he means 5 accounts who reported him as using prejudicial language and 1 mod who banned him. So that would be 6 people. Out of an n of ??? 7 billion ???
• What do jewish people have to do with this?
• Ditto to UC irvine
• and non-binary people make no obvious appearance in this story
• But really what do jewish people have to do with this? do you think that makes you look like not a bigot?
• Calling people "groupthink-infected" and "idiots" when you are being willfully ignorant

He is assuming the reason why people disagree with him is because they are stupid and manipulable rather than because he is wrong. He is complaining because he accidentally called a group of people by a slur and was shown the door as a consequence. Because he has failed to take the opportunity to learn anything from the situation, he is unable to engage with the issues. So most of the "argument" of this post consists of more name calling.

In summary, I disagree with the title. This is not interesting.

1 - pot calling the kettle black when it comes to being longwinded here :D

brain interpreted the post title as "Elite fediversers have brain oxygen levels lower than seals"

Thought it was some joke/meme about people who use lemmy too much

That only works if they have people who have the very specific skills to do the job. And that whatever those people would otherwise have been doing can go undone.

This website only works with unpaid mods.

boycotts have always been very difficult to pull off and fail virtually every time.

For pros and cons a good place to start is Rules for Radicals, published in 1971 by the great community organizer Saul Alinsky. He has many stories to illustrate but in summary writes regarding boycotts:

Once the battle is joined and a tactic is employed, it is important that the conflict not be carried on over too long a time. ...There are many reasons of human experience arguing for this point. I cannot repeat too often that a conflict that drags on too long becomes a drag. The same universality applies for a tactic or for any other specific action.

Among the reasons is the simple fact that human beings can sustain an interest in a particular subject only over a limited period of time. The concentration, the emotional fervor, even the physical energy, a particular experience that is exciting, challenging, and inviting, can last just so long — this is true of the gamut of human behavior, from sex to conflict. After a period of time it becomes monotonous, repetitive, an emotional treadmill, and worse than anything else a bore. From the moment the tactician engages in conflict, his enemy is time.

BTW Alinsky (b.1909) wrote this book to try to stop baby boomers from being dumb and fouling everything up. I am not a huge fan of the intergenerational model of class conflict but I think it is interesting.

idk. people say that now because we all know what happened in this timeline. but hasn't there been an option to pay reddit via reddit gold for a long time? i do not even know how that system works because I was so disinterested in it.

seemed to always be a pretty marginal thing.

i speculate that if we go back in time to, say April 2023 and change the course of history so that reddit just announces a more aggressive freemium price plan directed at users, many/most people would be pissed. given how shitty the website was, to me it would feel like a ripoff to pay them. the reason reddit is good is because of RES on desktop and 3party apps on mobile. I can confidently say that i would have scoffed at paying reddit. now that I have learned how bad their native setup is for mods, I feel more strongly that way.

if there was a model where they took a cut out of fees paid to the people who actually make it nice to use, maybe i'd be more friendly.

even then I might be clouded by hindsight in terms of what has actually happened which I do view as a total fucking disaster.

when a nerd thinks us vietnam war strategy sounds like a good idea

they gave it to someone who wants to implement a system of collecting government ID from participants and tracking their activities. very cool, I'm sure the kind of weirdos who like to mail each other snacks will happily scan their drivers license and send them to this person. no problemo.

perfectly said