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  • That’s more than just an ‘angry detransitioners’, it’s pretty textbook transphobia. It’s a problem with the entire subreddit, it’s not a place for detransistors to talk and support each other (I imaging detransitioning is emotionally quite gruelling), but a place for people opposed to the very idea of transition to express some pretty horrific views on it. The vast majority of the top posts in that community are talking about is the idea that transition, and the wider trans community, is an insidious plot to prey on the vulnerable and it taints everything that comes out of there, even the post you linked to.

    This post also has nothing to do with detransition, so it’s quite suspect that you asked about ‘detransition discussions’ only to bait-and-switch to criticism of online trans communities. Yes, there are problems with online trans communities that can be pointed out, this isn’t inherently transphobic; plenty of trans people criticise egg culture, for example. But the way that community does it is transphobic, saying the trans community is an insidious cult that preys on the vulnerable with lies is textbook transphobia.

    I’m going to stop engaging now as this got quite tedious a while ago. I’ll address situations as they arise, and add any needed clarification to the guidelines.












  • While on a computer, text selection doesn’t typically summon a pop up, it’s needed in mobile because how else would you easily get to copy and paste? Everyone else would rage at the loss of the tooltip and any other interaction would be painfully hidden if it was delegated to a combo of pressing your lock buttons or volume buttons while highlighting text.

    The complaint is specifically about desktop text selection though, the screenshot above says “i select text using my mouse”. I agree that removing the pop-up UI from mobile would suck, well suck more than mobile text selection already does.

    Quick edit: didn’t see the screenshot of the widget, might be the site you’re using, or browser? Also any adblocker add on should be able to hide those elements.

    You’re right, putting ##.quote-share-buttons in my uBlock filter list got rid of it. Still, blocking all these elements myself is really laborious.



  • /r/detrans

    I checked it out and it seems like an absolute cesspool, so no ‘discussions’ like the what happens there aren’t allowed.

    In my experience, such communities and discussions very much do not toe the trans party line.

    Here is a quote from the top post in that community today:

    How long will we pretend they aren’t violent braindead porn-addicted narcissists who hate us because our existence challenges their narrative and provides a living experience for those ones who aren’t completely sure about transmuting themselves into fake males/females so that they can address what’s wrong with them and why they do feel so much distress about their bodies and biological sex?

    Is it really any wonder why people not drowning in this trans-hating sludge would find this objectionable?




  • Don’t worry, I got you. Here’s the alt-text:

    @jk​@mastodon.social on Mastodon: “note to ui designers. when i’m reading a long piece of text. i select text while i read it. I select text while i read it!. i select the text using my mouse. while i read the text i often select the text. when i select the text i just want to select the text. i don’t want to perform actions on the text. i don’t want a popup menu to appear when i select the text. i don’t want to accidentally click on a Share link. i want to select text while i read it”.








  • Looks correct, but boring as you kept it pretty readable, the total opposite of what a regex should be.

    ^(?:(?:feddit\.(?:i[te]|uk|org|de|nl))|(?:lemm(?:\.ee|y\.(?:ca(?:fe)?|ml|(?:sdf\.)?org|world|zip|nz|blahaj\.zone|dbzer0\.com)))|(?:sh\.itjust\.works|programming\.dev|sopuli\.xyz|jlai\.lu|aussie\.zone|beehaw\.org|slrpnk\.net))$
    

    I am a weirdo who actually like regex


















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