Politicians decide things, but to actually make stuff happen, the government needs to collect taxes to pay for services that are then provided to the public. I think the idea here is to take out the middleman. You won't solve the problem country wide, but you'll help some people, and that's still worth it. Work together without like-minded people locally, be an inspiration, and show that it works. I've only been very briefly part of an activist group (specialized in food saving), so probably best to look elsewhere for good advice on how to do this well.

I'm no authority to speak on this, but I can say (gender) identity and pronouns aren't necessarily linked. Some people might lean into the fairy thing for their aesthetic or identity, others wouldn't. Some might use fae/faer pronouns explicitly to break out of the gender binary / ternary, others might just find that these pronouns fit them. I hope someone with more knowledge on the matter could weigh on.

Here's some non-Blåhaj users I've come across in this thread that are echoing a similar sentiment to me:

• Ma...@lemmy.world
• St...@lemmy.world
• sp...@lemmy.cafe
• Mo...@pawb.social
• Re...@lemmy.world
• yu...@pawb.social
• Al...@leminal.space
• ca...@lemm.ee
• la...@lemmy.world
• OB...@lemmy.ml

You've got plenty of non-Blåhaj opinions in this thread questioning a Blåhaj admin's decision.

Not to mention Dragon Rider isn't even from our instance. Take it up with lemmy.nz if you want drag's account banned.

We only insist on using the correct pronouns. What's the purpose of arguing the validity of a supposed troll's identity when there's plenty of actions to criticize? How often do we need to tell you that the correct response to a trolls is NOT to start misgendering them or similar, before you get it?

the admin was tricked into enforcing flawed rules to an absurd absolute

This is where we disagree. As far as neopronouns go, drag/drag is still pretty tame. It doesn't take a lot of effort to just go along with a persons preferred way of being referred to, in a space where doing so is expected. You're not supposed to decide on your own whether it's worth respecting depending on whether you think this person is a troll.

The reason? There's plenty of people out there, say on the spectrum, who often have trouble with being mistaken as a troll, for lack of being able to state their opinions and thoughts properly, or any other reason. I have personal experience with one such person. And their identity deserves to respected just the same as anyone else, even if their takes and opinions you are free to argue with.

Even if you know someone's obviously faking being trans (Josh Seiter comes to mind), it doesn't hurt anyone to just go along with using the pronouns they asked for, while criticizing them where it actually matters.

ECS already makes it a hundred times easier for me to conceptualize game mechanics, modify and extend them. Giving AI the ability the ability to create data separate from systems that use them will make it much easier for it to build a game. I don't believe for a second it will be able to write functioning object-oriented game code for example. It will likely be best if it avoided coding via a text-based language altogether, and use visual scripting or another system based on chaining logic blocks together. But that still counts as the "system" part of ECS.

When you say "trans woman" you affirm that they are women, and trans is just an adjective. When you say "transwoman" it can imply that they are something different altogether, and TERFs have certainly used it as such. Like, I dunno, a carpark isn't a park? That's the first example that came to mind, anyway.

How long have you been part of the fediverse? (A term which tends to not be capitalized, by the way. *nerd snort*) It's not about you getting to interact with every instance using just one account. It's about putting the power into the hands of ordinary people. Including the power to associate or disassociate with certain people, communities, and content. That includes an admin's ability to go "I see you're not sufficiently moderating your instance. We will defederate until you've taken steps to ensure your instance sufficiently moderates with common-sense rules.". Whether that is due to some content policies or to block an instance from which a ton of spam originates.

Just how with email a provider can choose to block or automatically mark-as-spam any email coming from a server they don't trust, for example because it's a known source of spam. It's actually how a lot of the internet works. And it works as long as well-intentioned people are in positions to make such decisions. And if a server or service goes rogue, they get the equivalent of defederated.

Incorrect. I'm fine with instances that host a variety of content. Including stuff I don't want to see.

However, I'm allowed to join an instance whose admins take a stance against bigotry for example, and therefore take better care that such content isn't allowed to freely go through their instance. That way I and a thousand of other users don't need to all block the content they don't like manually. It's my instance admin's choice, and my choice to go with their instance.

What do you mean by "running Linux"? Android is Linux.

Yes and Mastodon itself is a registered non-profit organization. There's a few people they're able to pay to work on the projects, thanks to sponsors and donations. But there's a lot more contributors (over 800). I think the people doing valuable work on FOSS projects have a lot of opportunity to work elsewhere if they feel like they're being made to do things antithetical to their values. Not to mention the amount of noise they could make to expose the project and its shady goals, if that were the case. Things do work differently for FOSS projects than your average for-profit investor-driven project.

Isn't creating a community from scratch already massively discouraging? Who will engage in a small community with barely any content if there's already a bigger one out there? One reason I could think of is there's some reason why the bigger community is not worth being part of any longer, such as bad moderation. In this case, creating a new one seems like the solution.