Oddbean

Custom pronouns are a fad. They will fade like bell bottom jeans and be a cringe-inducing reminder of a past era. There's a whole essay in my brain on "announcing your pronouns" but I will spare you the wall of text. :) TL;DR they are stupid and bad

I want to read that. I like to tell people that demanding pronouns from someone else is pretty selfish. The only pronouns I use to refer to myself are I and me because I don't speak about myself in the third person. You, of course, are welcome to use any pronouns you want to describe me, but in terms of being clearly understood, I would suggest that you use the ones that make the most sense.

Literally no one wants the pronoun discourse again lol. It's been over for years That's why it feels so odd as a decision. Who is it for. I don't think anyone cares. Not even the alleged target audience.

i have been saying since the moment i saw the shit rabble puts out that he's a woke twit, he's obviously insinuated himself into the in crowd to get the right to slam changes to nips and maybe this will actually highlight the fact that the guardians of the nips are too partisan

I don't know rebel at all, but I did participate in scuttle butt and patchwork for a couple of years, many years ago. I left because it seemed impossible to get past the multi-cultie mindset of the crowd there I am much happier with the nostr user mindset.

i never got involved with those things... what brought me to nostr was the fact it was bitcoiners and it was wide open decentralised relay based event bus system my friend at the time, who had been funding me to do work on an anonymity relay network (like tor but lightning based) also got quite excited about the notion of a relay based event bus network protocol

also, it was a bit grating at first but nostr protocol's minimalistic specification and simplicity and obedience to several of the key principles of the Laws of Unix grabbed my attention something that i felt like i would be able to grapple and do something productive to developing it

yeah, it's been a long time coming... i've been on IRC back in the olden days and the old forums and since facebook arrived social networking has turned into a steady descent into return to Television

i like flares tho there's a lot of cringy stuff that is still cool tho, whatever, the fad part sucks but pronouns are fundamentalyl a psychological manipulation tactic and i'm not going for it you can get most people to call you by some name but asking for several names to use for different situations is obnoxious also, implicitly i am using the third-person pronouns as i see fit not in the company of the referent... that is actually implicit, you know what i mean? she is a dumb cow, and he is a poncy tart. there. neither of those are said, IMPLICITLY, in the presence of who the pronoun refers