it is clear when you look at ecosystems for example, if a single disease can wipe out all adult trees in a forest it kills all new sprouts and it stops being a forest. (Tree sprouts tend to not do well in direct sunlight because they expect the shade of trees above them and all that)

so if you only have one kind of trees you are on a timer

this is the same with how we interact, and why organizing in systems that can coexist with as many other systems as possible is a requirement for survival. This is one of the biggest reasons why I’m an anarchist, because the point of the state is to force everyone to exist within one set of rules and such

I’m autistic, I’ve been called “detached and academic” my whole life, if you are inclusive how about you try including how I like to communicate instead of treating my existence like a problem to be fixed

what makes you think attacking me how I interact makes me want to interact more closely?

i mean i did mention replying to comments though, so idk how they could assume that i was planning on ignoring them?

idk it feels like bad faith assumptions

like people keep saying im not going to use peoples pronouns when i didnt say anything about that?

deeper context involves like, reading the last 10 posts someone made to get an idea of who they are before responding, is that expected here? I am not understanding what you want from me

I never said anything about not seeing people as complex humans? I’m confused

I never said anything about pronouns

I do not read usernames and take messages as they are without looking for additional context. This space is not a chat room and there is no reason to treat it as such. It is a forum.

I mean pronouns dedicated to gender, so gender has pronouns dedicated to it, not that it is some universal list. Also, you aren’t “forcing an ideology” on someone, if you describe something in terms of an ideology people must use an understanding of that ideology to process your words, for example. If I write something in binary you have to use a binary decoder to read it, you will get nothing useful if you use something else, so forcing you to decode binary is forcing you to use binary. There is nothing scary about that.

people who are parts of a system can do pronouns either way, so this isn’t much more relevant to them in the first place. Trans people in the closet are included in this.

Some of the same people will see you in different spaces, so it will have a different impact.

pronouns do have some overlap with those, yeah

practical use for a lot of things comes after building the systems where it is available in the first place. I have seen it used to designate what kind of furry someone is, I am not in those communities much so I don’t know the specifics but I imagine that can save time and confusion. One set of pronouns for those furry spaces, one for outside.

I use it/its in spaces where I do not plan on engaging with people as individuals, like on youtube where I get hundreds of comments and I’m not going to bother reading usernames. Designating the kind of interaction I will carry out and what to expect there is a good use case.

It is hard to find more examples as it is such a personal thing and not many people do it yet

yeah i should just block, you are right.

me when I would like to go outside by ableist people like you don’t wear masks so I would die :(

mb, I forgot to say video on it in the title, it is answered there

nothing “practically works” that is helpful to us under capitalism, the entire point of capitalism is that only things that hurt us work

even if the servers are queer friendly, I haven’t found one yet that doesn’t allow things like ableist language. They only feel marginally better with the tradeoff of smaller games

what doesn’t kill ya can also leave you gasping for air for the rest of your life. Everything that makes you stronger can’t kill ya, but few things that don’t kill you also make you stronger

honestly with project 2025 stuff, everything is going to get worse before it gets better. I’m not even sure if planning beyond that is worth it, so twitch going downhill slowly doesn’t bother me as much, especially since my main group of people is elsewhere.

and I have met a lot of disabled people who are ableist sadly, internalized and otherwise. But yeah, I guess my goal is to make a community for oppressed people, not the oppressors, so I guess they have some reason to allow it in their cases. A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush though, if they think keeping the people they have there is less important than pandering to new ones I doubt they will get far.

yeah people tend to get extremely angry over ableist language being called out. At the end of the day they told you to stop because they are ableist, and so just hate disabled people. I am one of those that cares a lot myself, and so that is reflected in my spaces.

also I think the phone number thing is a requirement that some channels can set themselves. I think the only thing it blocks without one inherently is like dms on new accounts? I don’t know the specifics though. I have people making unverified accounts for the first time just to talk with me, i can ask them more about the process

sadly there doesn’t seem to be an effective way to find those few who really believe in it, so unless you already have that community…

Maybe you already know of a group of people that does this and watches each other?

And not all care about fame, and money is something that can be gotten through building mutual aid with the people there that helps everyone there. It does not need to come from being a personality there yourself, I use it as a method to recruit people for the other places I interact.

I definitely have had some annoyances with how they interact, but I also see almost no spaces online even care about things like ableist language. I have not seen a space that does not infuriate me. Even if those spaces are commercial, it is the person running them on the smaller level that makes the most difference. These commercial spaces also often have more accessibility tools built into them and around them, so moving to something else can leave people behind which isn’t good either.

i mean, streaming to literally 0 viewers isn’t going to do much. Less popularity and more literally anyone there

I need to finish setting mine up lol, maybe I can just add on steam directly