Alyx Hinata 🇹🇩🚫💀 @alyx@gameliberty.club

@harblinger @augustus Out-of-context Alex Jones is best Alex Jones.
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@alyx My experience is similar, but the first thing that comes to mind is that it might be some sort of a filter bubble that you (and I), personally, are trapped in. Some complex non-intuitive filter causing you to encounter a higher concentration of trans people online for some reason. Confirmation bias can play a role here too.

But then there's the idea that the wired is the frontier of today, and all oppressed, closeted undercover, and isolated people seem to gravitate towards it because they can express themselves, often anonymously, in a safer manner, and use various online filters to increase the chances of meeting others like them. Trans people, Nazis, ex-Muslim apostates, pedophiles, Saudi women rights activists, etc. And as mainstream social media starts reflecting the stigmas and ideological wars of the real world with the floods of average people joining it constantly, the marginalized groups start getting driven away from them and into new frontiers, like the Fediverse.

Well, there might be some other coincidental, but more concrete, reasons for the fedi to be like that. Maybe, for example, some of the first instance admins was a trans person, and they got their trans friends on it, then a network effect started pulling more and more of them into the fedi, starting new instances, and joining existing ones. That admin could have been equally a gardening enthusiast, and then the fedi would have been full of gardeners and florists.

But what do I know

Dear #Mozilla, I fully agree with your message and this is why I am not giving you my money anymore. Because you are not the #Internet and I really don't like how you started speaking of yourself as such.

You make a browser. This is great. Diversity among browsers is essential and indeed keeps the Internet alive and humane. However instead of concentrating on this very important mission you are uniquely positioned to perform you changed your focus to populism while your top management pay figures go into seven digits. This I don't like as well. #Firefox needs love and attention but instead you cut developers and engage into distracting nonsense no one asked you for. You even managed to break Firefox Mobile. After your redesign it is just shadow or what it used to be.

Instead I am giving to someone else. It is David Morley who runs diasp.org - my first Diaspora pod. It is the Dr.Quadragon who runs one of the largest Russian Mastodon instances. It is Funkwhale, great free music sharing and streaming platform. It is Phillip Kulin who runs Russian Internet Censorship Registry Watch. I am not giving much but I hope this trickle helps to fuel real life of the Internet - people who create and support things.

I used to give you, Mozilla, but I am becoming more and more disappointed lately. Sorry. And again when salaries of your execs are described with words "instant inter-generational wealth" it seems to me you can do fine without my $5.

In case you were on the fence and need another reason to hate “journos” the day of the pillow for all “journos” can’t come soon enough...
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