retronautickz

@retronautickz@beehaw.org

Pallas | 29 | | | Disabled | Fat | + clusterouther & anderflor | and plato-averse | (Similo) | Grey-orchid in a non-platonic way and queering all types of attraction

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retronautickz,

Not all nonbinary people identify as a gender other than the one they were assigned, though. Some identify with their AGAB, but in a way that’s outside the binary.

retronautickz,

Sometimes, especially in the case of neopronouns, two set of pronouns share nominative form, but are distinguished from each other in their accusative form

For example: ze/hir vs ze/zir.

So, in those case, is to especify Which specific “ze” pronoun the person is talking about.

This also applies to “she” and “he” as pronoun sets like she/shim, she/sher or he/her are also a thing.

Non-Binary People and Assigned Sex at Birth

As a non-binary person, I often get asked, upon stating my gender identity, this question: “Are you AMAB or AFAB?”, and quite frankly, I hate it, and I think it reeks of bad intentions. Now, I don’t think anyone who asks this is explicitly enbyphobic. There’s a good chance that they just simply might not understand, but...

retronautickz,

Gender diverse people have always associated our genders to things that are unrelated to gender as a way to shown a separation from the binary system.

This is different from queer-antagonistic meme you mentioned.

I would suggest you to read about queer gender dynamics (many of which make reference to animals) and xenogenders.

retronautickz,

I avoid telling people my AGAB, because if I do they instantly want to classify me as a gender I’m not. It’s clear that many people, even those who are queer themselves, see and use “AFAB enby” to mean “cis woman-lite” and “AMAB enby” to mean “cis man-lite”.

I’m an aphorian, none of my genders are man or woman. I may have some genders that are similar or proximal to those two, but they are still distinct genders.

I don’t want to be associated with or read as a man nor as a woman; and when people ask for my agab, they’re mostly asking to know how to binarise me “correctly”

retronautickz,

I would help the kid. I can’t force my veganism onto other people, nor is it an excuse to be an asshole

retronautickz,

Cool things on Firefish/clackey, that Mastodon and most of it forks don’t have:

• Quote notes (Misskey and Akkoma, a fork of Pleroma, also have them)

• Antennas. They allow you to add words, tags and accounts to lists and create parallel timelines that you can see whenever you want, without having to follow this accounts

• You can create personalized timelines for certain accounts to appear in.

• It has a drive section where you can upload files.

• Channels. This are public local group that the members of a server can create, join and interact within.

• Private chat groups. Local only.

• Emoji reactions

• Clips. These are collections of notes (“note” is the name post receive in Misskey and Firefish)

You can create multiple clips and manage them by giving a name and description to each. You can also choose to make your clips public to make them available to other users.

• You can create custom web pages. For now they don’t federate.

• Customisable (by admin) character limit.

retronautickz,

Here a better explanation from the Misskey (from where Firefish took this feature) official page

I haven’t seen any Misskey or Firefish admin commenting negatively about the existence of the drive feature itself

retronautickz,

1- Never join the official instances. They always are too big that are almost impossible to moderate.

2- In which timeline did you see those comments? Because if it was global, it’s possible these are unknown servers the admins aren’t aware of. (The trending section is global)

retronautickz,

Why stick to the worse one, though?

The point of federation is that you can create community with people all over it, no matter what software the server they joined is running.

Mastodon being too big to the point that 90% of it users things it’s the whole fediverse is not positive nor contributes to create an stable community. Many people coming from twitter run from the fediverse, because they’re told there’s nothing other than mastodon, which they find hard to use, lacking and extremely toxic.

Misskey, Firefish, Akkoma, GoToSocial, Microblogpub, etc give people other options that may fit their need for/usage of a microblogging platform better than mastodon does, as each (including Mastodon and each of its forks) has it’s own “profile”

retronautickz,

No, not really. Firefish is a microblogging platform. Kbin is a link aggregation and topic discussion platform, with a wonky attempt at microblogging.

I wouldn’t call it an alternative to Mastodon or Twitter either, because Firefish has features that neither of them have. The only Microblogging platform it could be seen as an alternative to, now that it has gone beyond being just a fork, is Misskey.

People tend to compare Firefish and Misskey more to Tumblr, but they still have things that either were inspired by other microblogging platforms (twitter, included), or that are unique to them. So they aren’t fully “Tumblr alternatives” either.

retronautickz,

I’m quite happy with Milk Tea (Android) for Firefish and Misskey.

retronautickz,

Antennas allow you to create secondary timeline of accounts, terms and tags without them having to appear in the primary timelines.

That way you can follow content from people without follow people.

Here the official explanation from Misskey:

Antenna is a feature that allows you to freely set conditions for a custom timeline and automatically collect matching notes. Antenna conditions can include conditions to include/exclude certain keywords and tags in different combinations as well as other options. When a note matching an antenna’s conditions is posted, the note will automatically be added to that antenna’s timeline.

retronautickz,

Why is mastodon the worse one?

Lack of essential features and the toxicity within it servers.

It was meant to be federated, privacy friendly, self-hosted, less toxic twitter alternative for small communities

1- I didn’t say it had to be a twitter clone. What I said is that some people coming from Twitter that weren’t convinced by Mastodon, may be could have find other microblogging more adequate for their needs and usage. Each microblogging platform has its personality and usability, and Mastodon wasn’t for them.

The problem is when people are told that there’s nothing beyond Mastodon (regarding microblogging) on the fediverse, so they end up running away from the fediverse, after not finding a home on Mastodon.

2- It failed at being less toxic.

Witch hunts over petty arguments, negative reaction to newcomers not knowing how things work, racism that gets minimalised as “not as bad” by big part of the user base.

The fact that it doesn’t have quote posting because it “allows for toxic behaviour”, when other platforms have it and say toxicity is almost non-existant in using that feature, it’s in itself a red flag.

retronautickz,

You can’t follow tags (something that should be added), but you can add them to Antennas

An interesting case of moderation in the fediverse (blog.ownlifeful.com)

A small group of people were offended by a joke that unintentionally came across transphobic, and as a result this persons account was blacklisted. Even after getting the account reinstated, there were lasting complications with the state of the account (these probably technical issues) and the account was basically lost for...

retronautickz,

It’s a slur, not only a term that “has fallen out of favour”

OP was rightfully moderated. Their comment was transphobic.

retronautickz,

But I feel like if I try to clarify and really understand I may end up offending someone

Who would you be offending by admitting you were wrong in thinking OP was wrongly moderated?

OP knew what they were doing. They got rightfully suspended for transphobia and now they are crying about overzealous moderation and censorship, like all the bigots do.

Not only did they used an slur, but OP’s “joke” is based around a transmisogynistic stereotype.

Next time you want to post about someone being “wrongly moderated”, ask people from the community affected if they feel the comment was truly offensive or not, and if it deserves any kind of moderation.

Aromantic adults: how has your aromanticism affected your life and relationships?

I’m quite young, but personally—I spent most of my childhood thinking a crush was just “friendship I’m embarrassed to want to continue,” so I avoided befriending girls I had “crushes” on just because I thought me doing so would be creepy or clingy. Later on, in high school, I didn’t like that I hardly had friends...

retronautickz,

romo aro/cupioro here

I’ve been in romantic-ish (romantic, queerromantic, appromour, etc) relationships, and I enjoy them quite a lot, something I know it’s uncommon within the aro community. I not sure if I ever felt your typical romantic attraction, but I’ve felt something close to it (queerromantic) and something completely separated and distinct from both romantic and platonic attraction (like exteramo).

I also enjoy romantic media, although I’m too demi (queerromantic/exteramo) for love at first sight stories lol

What I have trouble with (because I feel rejection towards these type of bonds and relationships, especially if they’re been applied to me) is platonic and queerplatonic relationships. I never had the impulse to form and maintain friendships, nor I ever understood the need or usefulness of them.

retronautickz,

Weird, because I follow people from that server on my microblog accounts and I’ve seen them making sexual jokes (properly tagged)

retronautickz,

This.

It might be something related to this rule:

The following types of content are explicitly disallowed and will result in revocation of access to the service:

1. Sexual depictions of children

The server admin, might be including minor posting nsfw content under this rule.

retronautickz,

I’ve had a Mastodon account since 2018, but I officially moved from twitter last year. I also have a firefish/calckey account and and akkoma one.

I prefer Firefish. Its features allow me to use it as a mix of twitter and tumblr. For something extrictly twitter-like, I’ll go for Akkoma as I find Mastodon to be lacking some important characteristics and its minimalistic design to be uninviting.

retronautickz,

The microblog part of kbin doesn’t federates as well and lacks a lot of features that the mainly microblogging software have.

Having had a kbin account and accounts on Mastodon, Pleroma, Misskey and Firefish. It’s definitely not the same.

Kbin microblogging aspects are too limited in comparison.

retronautickz,

Spicy food. I’m almost the only one in my family that isn’t allergic to several spices, so, because my family didn’t cook with them, I didn’t get to eat anything relatively spicy until I was an adult and could cook for myself

retronautickz,

I think Calckey/firefish, because of it history and characteristics, tends to have more themed instances. Many of the so called “general” instances, are multi-topic or multi-fandom themed instances rather than actual general purpose ones.

I think someone not used to these things would see ‘Coming Soon’ and just leave it as not launched yet.

It’s probably not launched yet. The main instance hasn’t open (or rather moved from calckey) and other intances are moving from either old Calckey or foundkey.

Firefish has already set up a new site and infrastructure under their new name. The flagship instance of Calckey.social is in the process of moving over to Firefish.social. The migration effort is intended to retain users, posts, credentials, and data. The move is expected to officially happen over the course of the next few days.

I would say to wait at least a week to check the official instance.

retronautickz,

I don’t know how I feel about the new name, but I’m curious to see what new features come with the rebranding.

Calckey/Firefish is by far my favourite microblogging platform. It has a greater number of features than mastodon, and I personally find it more inviting.

What I wanna know is, with it being its own thing now (rather than a fork of misskey), while it still be supported by Misskey apps, like MilkTea?

retronautickz,

The thing is, the fediverse doesn’t need to be mainstream.

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