honestly not a fan of people being bullies towards fediverse newcomers just because they don't share the same culture

especially in a situation where we desperately need more developers to do bugfixes and improvements (like mastodon's performance, pleroma/akkoma's federation issues or gotosocial's everything)

it's a good thing the gnu/linux community seems to have passed this phase, otherwise we'd be still stuck in a world without proton, proper amdgpu drivers (remember the awful fglrx ones?), simple configuration for mobile internet, pptp, pppoe and anything else other than the basic "ethernet is routed straight to the internet" setup, or even working html5 video

honestly this whole "my significant other came out as trans and i feel betrayed" story is just so awful.

you've been in a relationship with this person for 10 years, you know them very well, and suddenly one small change happens and you go "i can't be with a woman" and dump them.

like, what the heck? you didn't fall in love with their penis or their Y chromosome, relationships based on that don't typically last a decade.

one thing where i think russian as a language does well is in having words like свой/своя/своё/свои - it means "his/her/their" in a way that makes clear the object belongs to the subject and not someone else.

он открыл его книгу: "he opened his book", with the implication that the first "he" is not the owner/creator of the book
он открыл свою книгу: also "he opened his book", but in this case the book clearly belongs to the person who opened it