cross-posted from: https://lemmy.perthchat.org/post/58108
> I read the Wikipedia article on sousveillance and it talked about benefits of civilians wearing body cams, since we can record police brutality and even karen's if you're a retail worker.
With Internet hackers, bots, and miners collecting data and metadata on whatever content users put around the world, personal pronouns should be limited as a matter of security on any social media site (including forums like this).
The best solution would be to formalize the vernacular use of "they/others" for social media.
Get the welcome wagon ready for all the new users
maybe*
it wont be long before we're the 3rd biggest fediverse project (ignoring matrix since it's not listed) 🎉
> mandacaru.caatinga.digital
Overall everyone here is great ♥️
I've only spoken to like 2 people from https://beehaw.org/ and https://mander.xyz and they were nice lol, so those are my fav users.
I've seen 1 or 2 posts where people are worried about the future of lemmy in terms of gaining new users. I think they were probably worried about not nice people joining. Which actually could be problem. Like the fact that there are only like what, 200 active users means everyone sorta knows each other which does encourage getting along. Rather than reddit where if you get into an internet slap fight with someone, odds are they won't remember you next week.
When used by non natives. I heard that it's a term in some indigenous groups and in some parts of africa.
If anyone is specifically from a culture that uses 'spirit animal', I'm specifically interesting in hearing your take, rather than the usual 'caucasian westeners debating other ppl's cultures'