kalanggam

kalanggam, 14 days ago

There is no should or shouldn’t, they’ve always had and been entitled to that choice. People who develop and host those platforms can make whatever choice they want.

ActivityPub/the Fediverse is only a protocol. If you philosophically disagree with how a platform makes use of that protocol, then you can (theoretically) just use another platform.

kalanggam, 4 months ago

not so hot because things are tense around my house, but i’m moving out towards the end of the week so hopefully it’ll be over soon.

kalanggam, 5 months ago

Genuine question: what happened last time?

kalanggam, 8 months ago

What’re they mad about? 🤔

kalanggam, 8 months ago

It does work that way, but Mastodon and some other microblogging software like Firefish (fka Calckey), Pleroma, etc. can also use relays to populate their federated timelines.

kalanggam, 8 months ago

Yup! If the software supports it, instance admins can usually add relays from their control panel.

kalanggam, 9 months ago

Respectfully, how on earth did this design get cleared? 😭

kalanggam, 9 months ago

What an audacious request. I hope it’ll be rejected — this just has “bad idea” written all over it.

kalanggam, 9 months ago (edited 9 months ago)

Liberals, including some POC, white allies, and white “allies,” are quite keen on representation as diversity. At the end of the day, representation can be superficial and only partially satisfies the goals of social justice. Yes, we — ‘we’ being people of color, women, queer people, and other marginalized people — should receive the same opportunities as our privileged counterparts. That’s representation.

But putting us at the helm of oppressive systems doesn’t end those systems. The point isn’t to have a Black police chief, or a woman CEO, or a queer head of state, etc… I liken this to putting a Pride flag on a nuclear warhead. It’s a symbolic action which, alone, isn’t entirely subversive of the system’s destructive nature. Such representation allows oppressive systems to flourish. We can’t obtain freedom by becoming oppressors ourselves. Justice shouldn’t be the cession of oppressive power to marginalized hands, but the cessation of such power.

When people see such simple representation as the means to an end, they show their reverence for oppressive power, that:

• they still have some measure of respect for it and its legitimacy,
• dismantling power isn’t that important of a mission for them, and
• they’re fine living with an oppressive system as long as they can go on living their life, have their sensibilities appeased, and still benefit from it

I’ve gotten a lot of guidance from this quote by Audre Lorde:

“For the master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house. They may allow us temporarily to beat him at his own game, but they will never enable us to bring about genuine change. And this fact is only threatening to those women who still define the master’s house as their only source of support.”

— Audre Lorde

These are just my personal feelings, so others may have conflicting thoughts or may want to provide their own insights. I’m not an authority on this or anything, but the main point for me is that I’m against how DEI as a framework is being appropriated to, as Angela Davis said, “guarantee a more efficient operation of oppressive systems.” I see this happening in academia as well as in Hollywood, US politics, and so on, where DEI is being deployed as a smokescreen to give new life to oppression and make it look less harmful.

kalanggam, 9 months ago

Cloaks are really a cool idea and I miss them, not that I was ever alive for them being en vogue haha

A great look despite the obvious hazard of them getting caught on things

kalanggam, 9 months ago (edited 9 months ago)

i give my week a 4/5, been busy the past few days trying to set up a Firefish instance with my partner which has been just awesome and i’m super excited to open it up and get people on it! rly inspired by beehaw’s community-building style.

in less awesome news i’m moving back home at the end of the week and i’m not looking forward to it. moving is so stressful and i don’t want to be back home with my dad either lol.

kalanggam, 9 months ago

omg happy belated birthday!! 🤠🥳

kalanggam, 9 months ago

If you are commenting in a Beehaw community, yes, you are using Beehaw. Please be nice in our communities – it’s the one rule we have, and by posting/commenting here, you’re subject to that rule. If you don’t want to do that, you’re more than welcome to find other communities and instances to participate on.

kalanggam, 9 months ago

thank you for your service chris 🫡 you are a pillar of this community

kalanggam, 9 months ago

I’m surprised to hear that anyone would complain about this with C. Even the Wikipedia page about encapsulation cites C as a non-OOP language example.

kalanggam, 9 months ago

What; if anything; are you doing to prevent the instance from becoming an echo chamber?

Like the linked post discusses, Black queer people are the recipients of a lot of harm. They’re perfectly entitled to a space where they won’t be harassed, doesn’t matter if that space is an echo chamber or not. The moderation and community of that instance can decide for themselves how they want to be structured — it’s not really anyone else’s decision but theirs. If we, as remote users, don’t like how they do things, no one’s forcing us to use their site, federate with them, etc.

I’ve noticed a lot of black first instances tend to fall victim to the same traps of racism and hatred that instances that center on other races do.

What exactly do you mean by the phrase “same traps of racism and hatred”? I’ve seen few if any instances centering on other races, so I can’t really establish that there’s any pattern there.