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Of course they are censoring culturally significant things. Bunch of colonisers, ugh.

Yes and no.

Reclaiming a word can only be done by those who are affected by it negatively and it should always be used in a positive way by people attempting reclaiming, never negatively. I’ve seen no evidence of them doing this or of them ever being affected by that word negatively personally.

Also intent is not magical, it doesn’t absolve people of the hurt they cause by doing something, all it might do is explain they weren’t trying to be cruel, however that doesn’t magically absolve anyone of anything and if they carry on doing it regardless of hurting someone etc, then they show their intent was really not what they claim it was.

Even if that’s the case, that still makes it an immature name for what should be a serious project, because I doubt they’ve ever seriously engaged with the concept outside of them naming their project that, hey that’s an idea!

Like, I don’t mind fun. But as someone into kink too, the name of a project shouldn’t invoke anything to do with either ableism or BDSM, especially since kink is not understood by most people correctly, unless a project is related to kink in some way, or ableism (which I’m going to seriously be suspicious of your project and motivations unless you’re disabled and are reclaiming it) it’s still a very bad name that doesn’t really explain anything about it at a glance/first hearing it.

That would have been a good idea, but alas they think they have good reasons for not doing so. Which, they don’t as their argument isn’t really sound, but people have their strongly held convictions even if they’re incorrect especially when it comes to foss projects, lol.

Glad you have something else good to use!

Yeah. It could have done if some not very nice people hadn’t have attacked them constantly just because they didn’t like what they were trying to do.

What are you trying to prove here? They were asked to change it because it’s ableist and they said no because it’s funny. Giving me a definition does not refute that.

That’s great! Now if only they’d stop thinking disability is funny, they might have a program worth using!

Yikes, the legal system really is horribly systemically broken, right to its core.

Thanks for posting this. Exmples are very useful.

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Not inherently.

People do share music there though, both free and non-free even though it’s technically not allowed to share the latter.

Oh, maybe, however, a lot of them are the streamers and probably some viewers are disabled themselves. The streamers just don’t want to drive potential viewers away before getting to know them because of the whole way they have to present themselves in order to get money I think. Also because they think changing people through kindness and getting them to stay is better, which I can’t always disagree with.

Whispers on accounts old and new are now blocked without a phone number, there is no way around this. There is no setting for it that anyone can change. I have had an account for several years with very few problems and now I am blocked from whispering anyone as I refuse to hand over a phone number.

You can if you’d like, but I know twitch is going to get worse before or if it ever gets better, so personally I’m extracting everything I care about from it (mostly my clips) and then deleting my account. My life has been better since I stopped watching streamers too, I have more time and energy and don’t have to worry about as many things.

Yeah, sadly so.

I learned a little while ago that community isn’t really what I’m looking for so I’m probably an outlier here to be honest.

I wish I did know a group of people that did that.

Yeah, I am glad not all care about fame, it does amaze me how people can show themselves on camera like that or at least use their voice, I could never.

I agree about money being built through mutual aid, and I am glad that can be done, genuinely. I am glad that it works for you, that’s quite the amount of work you have put in it sounds like.

Oh, I completely agree. However, whenever I tried to call it out or in in such spaces I either got the distinct impression I was annoying the streamer, the other viewers or in a few cases have been contacted directly by the streamer and been told to stop, so this is another thing that soured me, I apparently care too much and mess up too much to hang out in such places.

I completely agree about accessibility tools, in foss they just often aren’t there because either no-one cares or they are just ignorant. However, twitch have locked a lot of their communiction and ability to watch streamers behind handing over a piece of very personal information (a phone number) which I don’t consider accessible or good and in a few places it is unnecessary as they already had protections on some things. Now they have gotten rid of a dedicated safety team and are replacing it with streamers who they aren’t going to pay extra for the ‘privellege’. [sarcasm] there’s absolutely no way that could backfire [/sarcasm].

I’m glad that it works for you and I hope you find some decent anarchists that stream though, genuinely.

Oh, I’m not imagining nobody would be there, just a few people that really believe in it.

I was around twitch for a while and before that youtube, and on commercial social media I’ve found that it creates a sort of artificiality, lots of rules and how you have to present yourself is different to places that take a less commercial approach because the goal is money and fame to a certain degree in commercial spaces.

Plus a lot of the time commercial places impose their will upon the viewers too, so both streamer and viewer are at the behest of a corporation which has soured on me over the years, I can never relax in such places. I feel like I’m being watched, which is probably true and they don’t have to listen to any of us, they might listen to those who make them money but that’s about it.

Ah, well, I’m not interested in ‘popularity’ and ‘reach’ but I do understand in the world the way it is people have to care about such things.

If you find any that stream on peertube please let me know. I abhor commercial ‘social’ media.

Good.

Heroic Launcher has GOG support and in my experience works well.

Well first of all I’d ask:

What does privacy mean to you and have you done an accurate threat analysis?

People will have different ideas about privacy and have different needs from it. It’s not a universal thing nor is it static.