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1. Cas 🏳️‍🌈♻️♿️🇬🇧 [main] (cassolotl@dev.glitch.social)'s status on Sunday, 03-Jun-2018 08:26:14 UTC Cas 🏳️‍🌈♻️♿️🇬🇧 [main]

   Ultimately every FOSS project like this that I've run into is (or becomes) selfish in this way.

   This is hard to describe. It's like... in FOSS we are meant to all have equal power. But devs sometimes think that means we should all have equal skill, and if they can fork the project so can I. And if I can't, it's just because I haven't learnt how to code then that's just a formality and a matter of time and work, and I can go and do that.

   (I can't.)

   #ForkOff

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   • Cas 🏳️‍🌈♻️♿️🇬🇧 [main] (cassolotl@dev.glitch.social)'s status on Sunday, 03-Jun-2018 08:29:39 UTC Cas 🏳️‍🌈♻️♿️🇬🇧 [main]

     in reply to

     "I only want to code something for me, and you are lucky that I am willing to share it." And that is true! I am lucky!

     But the truth is that projects like this NEED the bug reports and feature requests and mock-ups and complaints by newbies and non-coders. No developer is so good that they can make something without that!

     And if the developer or developers are all safe men who push anyone they don't understand away, they will ONLY EVER MAKE A WEBSITE THAT WORKS FOR SAFE MEN.

     #ForkOff

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   • Cas 🏳️‍🌈♻️♿️🇬🇧 [main] (cassolotl@dev.glitch.social)'s status on Sunday, 03-Jun-2018 08:32:17 UTC Cas 🏳️‍🌈♻️♿️🇬🇧 [main]

     in reply to

     I have been saying from the start that this place gets MORE "well actually" and hostility for me than Twitter, and a lot of people told me it wasn't true. I'm starting to understand why that is.

     It's because the people telling me these things are safe men, and I am a nonbinary non-coder, and I visibly try to get involved in a project when I can't code. I try to get involved as a user.

     #ForkOff

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   • Cas 🏳️‍🌈♻️♿️🇬🇧 [main] (cassolotl@dev.glitch.social)'s status on Sunday, 03-Jun-2018 08:34:02 UTC Cas 🏳️‍🌈♻️♿️🇬🇧 [main]

     in reply to

     I have to block SO MANY White Man Avatars on here, so many more than I have to block TERFs on Twitter as a person who shouts about being trans and having trans experiences, even!

     Here's a chunk of my regex filters on the federated timeline. I had to do this because otherwise my federated timeline was unreadable as a non-coder, no matter which instance I was on.

     linux|programming|sysadmin|infosec|opsec|partition

     linux
     programming
     sysadmin
     infosec
     opsec
     partition

     #ForkOff

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   • Cas 🏳️‍🌈♻️♿️🇬🇧 [main] (cassolotl@dev.glitch.social)'s status on Sunday, 03-Jun-2018 08:35:56 UTC Cas 🏳️‍🌈♻️♿️🇬🇧 [main]

     in reply to

     I have been sealioned and well-actuallyed when saying the fediverse is not diverse.

     White men and furries and trans women is not diverse, people! I LOVE that furries and trans women have a home here, I really do! But the presence of a single marginalised group is not diversity!

     #ForkOff

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