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@beehaw.orgIf you had to assign adjectives to your gender, which would those be?
They do not have to be gender qualities (masculine, feminine, etc)
I'm gonna have to disagree on presentation and orientation being unrelated to gender. Not only do those things influence each other, but one's presentation (which includes more than how you dress) and orientation can be one's gender. Think of people who use butch, femme, bear, etc as their genders, or people who are arogender.
This limited view of "gender, presentation and orientation are different" only work to explain cishet people that a gay man isn't less of a man for liking men. But it cannot and should not stop us from seeing how for many queer people not being straight/cishet affects the way they relate (or not) with the binary system, that there are gay men that see their manhood as influenced by their gayness, thus different from binary straight manhood.
Not all nonbinary people identify as a gender other than the one they were assigned, though. Some identify with their AGAB, but in a way that's outside the binary.
Sometimes, especially in the case of neopronouns, two set of pronouns share nominative form, but are distinguished from each other in their accusative form
For example: ze/hir vs ze/zir.
So, in those case, is to especify Which specific "ze" pronoun the person is talking about.
This also applies to "she" and "he" as pronoun sets like she/shim, she/sher or he/her are also a thing.
I avoid telling people my AGAB, because if I do they instantly want to classify me as a gender I'm not. It's clear that many people, even those who are queer themselves, see and use "AFAB enby" to mean "cis woman-lite" and "AMAB enby" to mean "cis man-lite".
I'm an aphorian, none of my genders are man or woman. I may have some genders that are similar or proximal to those two, but they are still distinct genders.
I don't want to be associated with or read as a man nor as a woman; and when people ask for my agab, they're mostly asking to know how to binarise me "correctly"
Gender diverse people have always associated our genders to things that are unrelated to gender as a way to shown a separation from the binary system.
This is different from queer-antagonistic meme you mentioned.
I would suggest you to read about queer gender dynamics (many of which make reference to animals) and xenogenders.
You can't follow tags (something that should be added), but you can add them to Antennas
Why is mastodon the worse one?
Lack of essential features and the toxicity within it servers.
It was meant to be federated, privacy friendly, self-hosted, less toxic twitter alternative for small communities
1- I didn't say it had to be a twitter clone. What I said is that some people coming from Twitter that weren't convinced by Mastodon, may be could have find other microblogging more adequate for their needs and usage. Each microblogging platform has its personality and usability, and Mastodon wasn't for them.
The problem is when people are told that there's nothing beyond Mastodon (regarding microblogging) on the fediverse, so they end up running away from the fediverse, after not finding a home on Mastodon.
2- It failed at being less toxic.
Witch hunts over petty arguments, negative reaction to newcomers not knowing how things work, racism that gets minimalised as "not as bad" by big part of the user base.
The fact that it doesn't have quote posting because it "allows for toxic behaviour", when other platforms have it and say toxicity is almost non-existant in using that feature, it's in itself a red flag.
Antennas allow you to create secondary timeline of accounts, terms and tags without them having to appear in the primary timelines.
That way you can follow content from people without follow people.
Here the official explanation from Misskey:
Antenna is a feature that allows you to freely set conditions for a custom timeline and automatically collect matching notes. Antenna conditions can include conditions to include/exclude certain keywords and tags in different combinations as well as other options. When a note matching an antenna's conditions is posted, the note will automatically be added to that antenna's timeline.