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Oh wow. Yes, that would be me as well. I‘m that guy in every place I work.

Maybe talk to the person and speak about an interesting video from the neurodivergent doctor or someone else who is really good at all things autism.

Like „I recently found out“ maybe about yourself or a(n imaginary) friend. So that you don’t have to hit them with „you‘re shit at socials“ but give them strong resources with a quite hefty hint. I need stuff being said pretty directly so if your colleague doesn’t take subtle hints, make it not so subtle instead. :)

Good luck! (Btw. ADHD and trauma have strong overlaps with autism so you‘d have a hard time anyway to tell them apart if you‘re not well informed already)

I‘m not sure this will work, especially with lemmy being as bad with moderation as it is. I would love to but I can’t moderate on mobile at all atm.

Sure. But the point was that apple is not unfairly but correctly being targeted with massive criticism for anti competitive and anti consumer behavior.

Not sure op should directly be advised to seek help. We don’t even know (or I overlooked) who they are talking about.

People fall in love with their friends, have a crush on classmates (and misjudge that). Depending on age the person just needs to learn. I actually had that situation at the age of 14. Didn’t go anywhere.

Have a good one.

Thank you very much. I googled autism merch today. It’s disgusting. 90% of the stuff is shit and most have the puzzle piece or „please be patient I‘m autistic“. I wanted to puke!

Nothing like „autistic - no touchy“ or „don’t look me in the eyes baby“ or something else that is a little bit more cheeky and not some apologetic trash.

We don’t need to apologize for being ourselves. I think people should apologize to us for saying „ah, you‘re being problematic today again?“. Yes motherf***er, deal with it.

Thats a pretty awesome question imo.

I think Matrix only makes sense if you‘re already using instant messaging of some sort. Either discord, whatsapp, signal, what have you…

If you are using one of these services, there is a high chance that your data is sold, traded and used for all kinds of purposes, from training AI to manipulating your life choices (or as simple as selling something to you).

If a person is not using social media at all (and has an offline friend circle), then they should happily stay away from any of these products, federated/foss same as the others. Simply because social media is addictive.

But for those (like me) who don’t make friends easily offline, social media makes sense. And for those, it is far better to trust db0 or whatever the admins name is of an instance, than google,

has only one answer. Hell yes!

Element is a for profit company and therefore not the best idea if you want to go fully without data collection I assume. But then you also need to keep all smart devices in your home from calling home, you need a rooted android phone or similar, etc.

So I propose that we do our best, keeping the megacorps from collecting and selling our data without a penny of the profits going to us. In the meantime, we make compromises where necessary. If element is the only „usable“ client for you, let them have at it for the time being. Especially on ios, you‘re transparent to apple anyway and besides you don’t see the apps in development until they leave testflight (iirc).

Let me know if you have any further questions. Have a good one. :)

I'm not sure I understand you correctly. Pushing a certain OS (or browser, or anything for profit) is absolutely unacceptable. We want a pc, not a "windows pc" by default. The OS market is pretty much a monopoly up to this point and presumably for the last 5-10 years, MS has only made this much profit because it was forced on consumers.

If by equity, you mean this:

Equality means everyone is treated the same exact way, regardless of differences. Equity means everyone is provided with what they need to succeed.

then you are much worse than that.

I don’t even know what you meant with the second sentence but right now you seem to be making it worse. Have you maybe been told what to think?

Thats a really interesting topic! Thank you for bringing it up. I‘m an admin irl for linux and windows based systems as well as a hobby coder (I have built a big commercial crm for a company though).

In any case, I would probably make „premium“ instances where you need to pay to sign up but you get high tier support, maybe some merch, etc. i‘m a friend of donations but it should not be a very time intensive „hobby“. I know it could work if someone was really smart but thats actually not fair because people put in the work, no matter if they’re smart so they deserve to be paid.

Ironically, I‘m also a reddit mod (currently mid transition) and the treatment of the mods by spez really stung. Source https://www.reddit.com/r/ModCoord/comments/14ahqjo/mods_will_be_removed_one_way_or_another_spez/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=ioscss&utm_content=2&utm_term=1

So yes, moderation and especially admin work are real jobs and deserve to be paid (either in money or in some kind of currency, for example cool job offers or whatever).

Let me know if you have more thoughts on this.

That makes sense. Thank you.

thank you very much! :)