If Big Tech ever wants to bring down the free independent Fediverse, all they have to do is leak the private notes we pin to other people’s profiles.
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"am happy that's your experience online!"
Well, I am sorry it's not everyone's experience.
@CarstenBoll @Tattooed_Mummy It's not, sadly. Especially not for women, I dare say.
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@CarstenBoll @Tattooed_Mummy It's not, sadly. Especially not for women, I dare say.
@CiaraNi ha ha now you reminded me I have a category "mansplainer"
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@CiaraNi ha ha now you reminded me I have a category "mansplainer"
I am always vaguely worried that I am both a reply guy and a mansplainer
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@CarstenBoll @CiaraNi Good Lord I block at least one person a day
@Tattooed_Mummy @CarstenBoll On the plus side, blocking can be quite liberating. The person disappears instantly from the universe, I find. Unless it was something especially egregious, I won't remember later that they existed. I assume it's the same for those who block me. Sometimes I meet someone who's blocked me when I can't see their one post in a thread of mutuals. I always feel happy for them.They got the peace they wanted!
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@ygathgoch @CiaraNi I’ve had several hospital visits recently, and have started wearing one of those “I speak Welsh” badges. Some NHS staff have the symbol sewn into their clothes, or they wear a lanyard, so I’d assumed anyone who didn’t wasn’t a Welsh speaker, which I wrong about at least twice.
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@CiaraNi it’s a very rare occurance (and much rarer here than in Other Places) but every now and then someone will explain that I’d get more engagement if I posted in English, or bilingually, as if I hadn’t worked that out for myself!
@nic @CiaraNi the assumption we're all here for engagement really annoys me. I once got a DM in response to a picture of a sunset saying I'd get more engagement if I used hashtags, and while it was well intentioned (if a bit mansplainer) under the assumption that my purpose here was to maximize engagement and publicize myself I guess, I'm really just here to drop random posts and pictures that made me happy into the conversation and if they make someone else happy that's the only metric of success I'm interested in realky
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@ygathgoch @CiaraNi I’ve had several hospital visits recently, and have started wearing one of those “I speak Welsh” badges. Some NHS staff have the symbol sewn into their clothes, or they wear a lanyard, so I’d assumed anyone who didn’t wasn’t a Welsh speaker, which I wrong about at least twice.
At one point, two nurses were discussing my thumb, in English: I’d been speaking Welsh to one, but assumed the other didn’t understand, so I switched to English. WRONG! They were both Welsh speakers, but the one I hadn’t seen before had assumed *I* wasn’t, so was speaking English to her colleague for *my* benefit.
We have a long way to go.
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@CiaraNi ha ha now you reminded me I have a category "mansplainer"
@Tattooed_Mummy It's a big tent, that Mansplainer category
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@nic @CiaraNi the assumption we're all here for engagement really annoys me. I once got a DM in response to a picture of a sunset saying I'd get more engagement if I used hashtags, and while it was well intentioned (if a bit mansplainer) under the assumption that my purpose here was to maximize engagement and publicize myself I guess, I'm really just here to drop random posts and pictures that made me happy into the conversation and if they make someone else happy that's the only metric of success I'm interested in realky
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"am happy that's your experience online!"
Well, I am sorry it's not everyone's experience.
@CarstenBoll @CiaraNi @Tattooed_Mummy
I wish I could see the list of notes next to my blocklist, I'd imagine it would look something like
Mansplainer
Mansplainer
Mansplainer
Weird issue with vegans and cws for some reason
Mansplainer
Complete unhinged loon
Mansplainer -
@ygathgoch @nic Such a pity that some people have that attitude
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@CiaraNi it’s a very rare occurance (and much rarer here than in Other Places) but every now and then someone will explain that I’d get more engagement if I posted in English, or bilingually, as if I hadn’t worked that out for myself!
@nic Oh my, Welshsplaining!
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At one point, two nurses were discussing my thumb, in English: I’d been speaking Welsh to one, but assumed the other didn’t understand, so I switched to English. WRONG! They were both Welsh speakers, but the one I hadn’t seen before had assumed *I* wasn’t, so was speaking English to her colleague for *my* benefit.
We have a long way to go.
@nic @ygathgoch That was considerate, but yes, I imagine it makes it more complicated to just naturally use the language in everyday situations.
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@nic Oh my, Welshsplaining!
@CiaraNi “Saisbonio”
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@nic @CiaraNi the assumption we're all here for engagement really annoys me. I once got a DM in response to a picture of a sunset saying I'd get more engagement if I used hashtags, and while it was well intentioned (if a bit mansplainer) under the assumption that my purpose here was to maximize engagement and publicize myself I guess, I'm really just here to drop random posts and pictures that made me happy into the conversation and if they make someone else happy that's the only metric of success I'm interested in realky
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@CarstenBoll @CiaraNi @Tattooed_Mummy
I wish I could see the list of notes next to my blocklist, I'd imagine it would look something like
Mansplainer
Mansplainer
Mansplainer
Weird issue with vegans and cws for some reason
Mansplainer
Complete unhinged loon
Mansplainer@afewbugs @CarstenBoll @Tattooed_Mummy
"I wish I could see the list of notes next to my blocklist" - oh yes please. I would love this feature. The notes are fairly buried in the current set-up. I would love an at-a-glance list of name + note on block lists.
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@CiaraNi @afewbugs afaik, the only time I’ve had Welsh explained back at me is when some kind soul (not a Welsh-speaker) has boosted one of my Welsh toots, and one of *their* followers has Saisplained to me. It’s very rare, but I suppose it’s better than the “lol, cat fell asleep on the keyboard!” type nonsense.
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@CiaraNi “Saisbonio”
@nic I'm guessing the Sais there is related to Sassenachs. A kind of local version of the Irish 'The Brits Are At It Again' between the Welsh and English
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@greenpete You took that very literally.
