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@JessTheUnstill @faithisleaping
When I was a kid, I wanted to be able to enjoy all the things I enjoyed, but I also wanted the good puberty and I wanted to have the ability to also be feminine too.
Like, I want to be a girl with some "masculine" hobbies here and there, not a dude.
But I didn't know that trans people existed *at all*. I vaguely suspected I was LGBT, but gay didn't fit me
Corporate apps tend to centralize everything into one app, to the point where when they do fuck you over everyone is too tangled in network effects to want to leave. It's a sad reality that will end in one or two corporations owning the Internet and operating it according to the demands of the US government.
@fleurcode for one, IRC has message History if you use the right server daemon.
And two, voip is outside of the scope of IRC. IRC is for text conversations.
Or, better yet, signal.
Have an IRC window and a Jitsi meet window side by side.
And if you want a video chat....
Just use jitsi.
@fleurcode embrace extend and extinguish is the strategy every time
"but but it's too hard!" or "network effects!" Are great arguments and all, but do you want your network to be surveilled by a corporation? Or do you want your own people to manage your own infrastructure?
You can't have it both ways
The software to run an ircd is all open source. All the clients are open source. They're actually packaged within Debian GNU/Linux.
Discord killed IRC. But IRC might have to kill discord if we are to have a free Internet
IRC is scalable and it works.
IRC is the alternative to discord.
If we want a free Internet, we must put in the work to use the tools we already have. IRC was fine back in the 2000s, it's fine today
@SecondUniverse Jewish people in the modern day are some of the most overwhelmingly accepting populations when it comes to trans people.
