It's not normally about power level, but about how far apart the servers are. Because they're sent serially and have to be acknowledged before they can be processed, it means that world can send out content faster than regionally distant instances can process them because of the geographical latency added to every event
someone trying to sincerely answer a reasonable question
Yeah, that's why you linked to transphobic hit pieces and described trans women in sports with hugely emotionally loaded terms
Because you're reasonable
As I said from the beginning, your comment was fine unti you let some of your more transphobic opinions out in the final paragraph. That paragraph was not "reasonable"
This is a tricky issue, trans women in men's prisons are also at risk
"Also at risk"
The fact that you equate cherry picked single instance anecdotes as comparable to entrenched violence and discrimination against trans folk as being somehow comparable is the part that makes it transphobia.
Murder was hyperbole
It was, yeah. Despite her "murdering" the opposition, from the very article you linked, Australia finished 5th.
There are 7 players on a handball team. She scored 23 goals across 6 games, for an average of just under 4 goals per game (3.83 to be specific).
The total goals scored by Australia in those games was 160, which works out to an average of 3.81 per Australian player across those 6 games. Her "murdering" of her opponents consisted of having a 0.02% higher average than her team mates.
The fact that you parrot lines like "murdering" and look at videos designed to make it look open and shut, whilst not bothering to investigate the reality of the situation is what makes it transphobic.
The whole article is discomforting and worth reading. But, while WPATH (what is supposed to, and claims to be and independent science based organization) was creating their guidelines:
An article posted on the economist, who has Helen Joyce, a vocally transphobic journalist as one of their senior staff. Linking to an article that has been mostly circulated on various transphobic websites, calling out WPATH for being biased and getting in the way of evidence based research? Whilst defending the Cass review, which has been widely called out by many international medical bodies for its own bias and inconsistent approach to evidence.
The fact that you're worried about WPATH as the real issue here is telling...
Because stirring up hate against vulnerable minorities, by positioning them as a threat is a well tested and effective technique for the power hungry to gain and retain power. And it's effective, because it works by pulling people in and making all of the conversation about whether or not it's right to hate on the group they're targeting.
What's different about the fediverse is that I can pick an instance and know that the admins who run it will ban bigots, rather than just leaving the bigots alone, and telling me to ignore them.
You may have picked the wrong instance then, because as the blahaj.zone instance admin, I actively remove "mean things". Words designed to harm others, whether it's bigotry, or harassment or insults, are not an "occupational hazard", they undermine the community and hurt folk when they're vulnerable.
Hateful words will get you banned here, and apologism for them and downplaying their impact is not welcome.
It's not shit yet. Right now, it's good. Honestly, better than the fediverse in core usability.
The issue is whether it stays that way. And yeah, if they open up the way you're talking about, I'll probably move over myself, because that's the protection against enshittification. But if they don't open up, if they stay centralised, and just play at federation, then the writing is on the wall for how it ends, because it's happened countless times before. And I won't invest my time or effort in being part of that community only to lose it
Sure, but the network itself is still there and still running, and I can still use it (albeit with some disruption).
The point is though, that as long as it's not dependent on a single instance, enshittification isn't the inevitable end state.
And for me, despite the usability issues of the fediverse instance based method, it's a better alternative than joining and losing another social media network to gradual enshittification and slack moderation
It's not normally about power level, but about how far apart the servers are. Because they're sent serially and have to be acknowledged before they can be processed, it means that world can send out content faster than regionally distant instances can process them because of the geographical latency added to every event