I wish I could even tell where these spirals come from. usually it's something innocuous and my brain jumps to "people are now talking behind my back about how I'm evil."CPTSD: Never A Dull Moment [tm]

@YKantRachelRead you gotta be kidding.you’re exaggerating surely?bluesky never fails to come up with some interesting nonsense bullshit

@YKantRachelRead@social.treehouse.systems Yeah...when discord took over a lot of us avoided it because of the centralization. I finally succumbed and created an account last year, but the lack of alternatives has always been discomforting. Maybe this will prompt the creation or forking of a more user-centric project? I donno. Meanwhile, I am going to work on trying to building a more friendly Matrix serveer to see what we can learn.

@YKantRachelRead@social.treehouse.systems @roughling@thebleakest.link The other thing to bear in mind it that most of these components have a 2-3 yrs TTL in datacenter deployments. So 36 months from not the secondary / used market will be flooded.

@YKantRachelRead@social.treehouse.systems I read through bsky now and then - and I wish some of the people I really like would move to the fedi, but I understand their desire for a large, curated, platform. At this point though, I've lost a lot of respect and sympathy for any trans person or org that remains on X.

@YKantRachelRead@social.treehouse.systems Yeah.. I've seen enough "pillars of the community" who've manipulate newer members for their own benefit, and literally embezzle funds from community projects, that I am always wary of people who are put on a pedestal.

@SpaceCheeseWizard@woof.tech Then I think you would agree that there is no way one can self-censor themselves to avoid govt or reactionary scrutiny. And that both TechSec and OpSec are critical components to managing any user's online risk. And e2e encryption is one such component of a reasonable TechSec operational stack. I am not suggesting that e2e encryption is a requirement for all, but nor am I suggesting that utilizing it is somehow pointless or an exersize in paranoia. Rather, the it's up to the user base to decide upon their own risk tolerance and choose a platform accordingly. I am, as you can see, generally opposed to the idea of blaming users for their own oppression for failing to self-censor. Preemptive censorship and drives to create a "Right Think" online culture are - at that very best - Orwellian exercises.

@YKantRachelRead@social.treehouse.systems I really wish matrix could be a replacement for Discord, as it's a helluva lot more security aware. But it's just too buggy and cumbersome at the moment for the average user.

@bri7@social.treehouse.systems @YKantRachelRead@social.treehouse.systems @imbl@social.treehouse.systems I've literally been in discussions with leftest men who argue teachers, nurses, and waitresses aren't 'workers' because they don't "create value." Note: they are almost always fem coded jobs.

@YKantRachelRead@social.treehouse.systems there's an self-denying / destructive habit among a lot of transfems to sacrifice themselves to try to get along within the community. It's almost like emotional labor and passivity were exploited by misogyny....

@imbl@social.treehouse.systems @YKantRachelRead@social.treehouse.systems They want the boot on the necks of queer people. Cis str8's are arrested daily for csa, but the panic always revolves around queers and spreads outward. When I was a teen, I desperately wanted to be fucked. I had to go out and find people. No one was there to groom me. I had to pursue partners on my own. When I figured out I was trans, no one had groomed me. So if there is a tranny grooming pipeline, I'm pretty fucking pissed with them that they didn't approach me in my 20's, and now I have to play catch-up.