Yozul

Because there’s a company that makes the software used to run a Mastodon instance. Same way Mozilla has a CEO even though they’re not in charge of the internet.

Alright, I hereby name my keyboard Blue. It’s called blue now. It isn’t blue, but I named it Blue.

It isn’t. People just like to bring up the 2 or 3 most extreme examples from a country of a third of a billion people and pretend that’s a normal, everyday occurrence. You’d think that people would realize that none of us have ever actually met anyone that ever successfully sued anyone for millions of dollars and extrapolate, but they’d rather be mad at some imaginary problem in a way that conveniently makes it more difficult to use the legal system to defend ourselves from rich people if we “fix” it.

That is awesome.

And in answer to the question in the title: Yes. Yes it is. Toxic masculinity has never been about man=bad or anything. It’s about finding better ways of being masculine. That’s what it was always supposed to be.

I think you’re confusing privacy and security. Some of us aren’t really worried about the NSA hacking our phones. We would just like for it to not constantly be selling out every minute detail of our personal information to a mega-corporation. Sure, you still have to pay attention to what apps you install and all of that, but a de-googled android phone is still a massive upgrade in terms of privacy even if it isn’t super secure, as long as you aren’t being individually targeted for some reason.