I do think neopronouns can be confusing, but it takes literally no effort to use it.
If you really must not use it you can just use singular they, or the person’s name.

Both are social constructs.
For example: the mammals class of animals is a social construct, While mammals would still have characteristics like being warm blooded, or not laying eggs, the classification wouldn’t exist if people didn’t invent it.
Its also not a perfect classification, platypuses lay eggs but are still classified as mammals.

Sex is the same, its people who have certain hormones, certain chromosomes or certain genetailia, but there can be people who don’t have the “Proper” chromosome / hormone for their sex, but they still are classified as male/female.

I think its important to look at what purpose a social construct serves, Mammals are a social construct, but they still serve a useful purpose (not saying sex/gender serves / doesn’t serve a useful purpose).

I see it like colours, there is an infinite amount of colours, but it makes sense to have a name for the common ones.

As much as I fucking hate the irish star, they have a good headline for once.

While they could put up weird images, they can’t change posts without everyones private keys.

I know, but the source for your statistic is Meta themselves.

I mean, looking at what python3 broke, they are some changes that were well needed. https://docs.python.org/release/3.0.1/whatsnew/3.0.html

I think it would be like xhtml, which broke compatibility with old versions of html, but was (and still is) supported by browsers.

All of instagram and threads.
Only parts of facebook are written in python because its really fucked up.

I honestly doubt that, It has no relevance – at all. I see screenshots of bluesky posts everywhere, but rarely see threads posts.

Its a bit charitable to call threads a monopoly since no one uses it.

Tumblr also downsized to 25 employees (including T&S). I don’t expect anything groudbreaking from them soon.

I’m surprised they’re still interested in ActivityPub.

Hot Take: This is good because its easier for people to leave threads, since they can still contact their friends on threads. I do think having most instances block them is also good, so people can have a choice (I personally don’t want threads).

does mastodon’s search even work? Unless a post has a hashtag its near-unindexable.

If you’re very paranoid, try flashing a custom ROM to it.

Unfortunately, they have no obligation to remove individual posts/comments unless they contain personally identifying information (iirc).

Do they delete them, or overwrite them?

Try overwriting instead.

The search doesn’t even work on my instance.
Lemmy is the only fediverse software with a good search imo.

I’ve heard of snac, but never knew about the database thing. What does it use? static files?

Misskey (I use sharkey, a fork of it) is really good. Groups don’t federate yet iirc.

Its frontend is extremely slow though.

On most fediverse softwares its near-impossible to start federating on the same domain without the same keys it had before. Lemmy is the exception.

this explains why most of the images from quokk are broken anyway.