Social media allowed teams around the world to rapidly coordinate on the invention and distribution of the vaccines. COVID had fewer deaths than the 1918 influenza pandemic despite the massive increase in population since then, in part because of social media.

You think Trump is smart enough to listen when his staff tell him that?

I think social media apps like youtube, email, and zoom have been very useful for society. The pandemic would have killed a lot more people if not for social media.

If Trump decides to launch a nuke at Vancouver, which of your allies are bold enough to send one his way?

The Matrix protocol sends the channel name and icon from server to user client. It’s one extra field to add the ordinality. Two extra fields to add the category and ordinality. Adding your idea onto My idea so users can also reorder channels after the space moderator orders them would be ideal, but please don’t mistake My suggestion for the idea you came up with.

Your group arrangement should either be under user account preferences, or local client settings

I disagree. On Discord, channels are sorted and grouped by the server admins. This is good UX design because it gives every user on a server the same experience of the channels, and doesn’t require users to all replicate a bunch of the same work.

What you’re proposing as a solution is that every single user in a Matrix space is responsible for sorting and grouping all of the channels in the space that they’ve joined. That’s a ridiculous proposal because 99% of users aren’t going to go to that ridiculous effort, they’re going to be happy with the default settings. I think your idea is better than Matrix’s current setup, but it’s far worse than Discord from a usability perspective.

Qapla’!

I recommend MULTIVERSE to any new otherkin/xenogender/plural fediverse users, or anyone who has antirealist sympathies.

Are you saying you want the moderators of a Discord server to decide whether users on the server use dark mode or light mode?

HTML and CSS are also protocols. But I think a better analogy is RSS. RSS carries information about the order of posts, which clients can use however they want. I think that’s the right way to do this feature.

If it’s not supported by the protocol, how is an admin’s sorting of channels supposed to be pushed to the users in the server? It won’t work, it can’t be a client option. If it has to be a client option and it can’t, then it’s impossible.

I don’t like Matrix because you can’t sort and categorise channels in a server. The most recently messaged in channel is always at the top. That’s not the UX I want, I want to be able to put things in places with intentionality.

Sad times. I’ll be all in when a competitor gets all the essential features replicated.

Does it have video streaming yet?

I love Stoat’s UI but video streaming is an absolute must for My use case and last I checked they said it wasn’t a priority

I have not lived with ASPD. They have. Thus, they have access to data I will never have. For that reason, I extend a certain amount of trust in their conclusions. I do the same with many other minority stati I will never have.

Additionally, consider all of the political systems in the world that are smaller than states and capital. Like families, recreational clubs, communes. People with ASPD have difficulty participating in those, too.

Feeling good feels good, so I decided to make it the foundation of My ethics. I’m trying to make a world where we can all feel really good and don’t have to feel bad.

I’m not convinced that the version of ASPD I believe in is the mainstream one.

The mainstream perception is cunning manipulators worming their way into the echelons of high society so they can abuse people in their secret sex dungeon, after a childhood of burning ants and torturing squirrels. You know, Peter Wiggin.

What I see are working class folks whose ability to trust others has been worn away by parental abuse, such that concepts of working with others for the common benefit seem like some kind of trick to exploit or weaken them, at least on an instinctive level. People who do not feel that natural pull to get along with others around them, to soften disagreements, to drift towards the consensus opinion. People who would look at a cop, and would not instinctively see the weight of all society looming within this person as you and I would, not at first, but would instead see one individual and upon first instinct would use violence to overcome this obstacle, and would need to consciously remind themself that angering this one asshole has consequences. Someone who does not see the invisible fabric of society suffusing everyone around them, not due to a neurological difference, but due to a developmental missed milestone.

Many of the same symptoms as NPD, but where I am hyperaware of group loyalties and see these social bonds as potential threats, people with ASPD are AFAIK hypoaware of group loyalties and see individuals as potential threats. That’s just the impression I have from the few ASPD-identifying people I’ve known.

I just tell people to go visit https://soulism.net/ as often as I get the chance

I wanna print her dog pictures off her phone and give them to her on paper