Ashwin Dixit@kainoa
Hello Kainoa,
Hope you're doing well.
Listen, I know I'm not your boss. But my whole online life is at your mercy now. Honestly, I love what you've done by forking Misskey and creating Calckey. It's so beautiful! Thoughtful User Interface, cool new features, freakin' MFM ( how cool is that! )! This is so awesome! Thank you so much! I have moved all my Fediverse accounts to my calckey.social account, because I really believe how amazing Calckey is, and what what potential it holds to change the world for the better.
I have been evangelizing Calckey, encouraging my 250+ Mastodon followers to try Calckey. I have been meaning to contribute to Calckey, with code, documentation, and Hindi language translations. However, I'm just a person with their own material constraints. I'm a bit depressed, and unemployed after a having been a programmer since 1984.
There was a public objection to my using the word "Tranny" as a transphobic slur. My dear Kainoa, I was programming computers and having gay sex, in 1984, before most people online were alive. I was wearing makeup and dresses in public, before most of the crowd even knew the word "drag". So being classified as "transphobic" really hurts my feelings.
"Tranny" is not such a bad word. I've been online since 1990. Transexual / Transvestite people have long used it to describe themselves. When I used to indulge in such explorations, CraigList personals would be full of hot people describing themselves as "passable trannies" ( People who looked like attractive females, but had penises )
So I was a bit dismayed at having suddenly become "persona non grata" in the Fediverse, after using one word ( "Tranny" ) , one time.
Now, I've lost my social life on the Fediverse. My followers are on calckey.social and I can't post, or migrate my followers. This is troubling for me. Please help restore my account on calckey.social or migrate it to evil.social so I can resume talking to my online friends.
Honestly, I am unemployed and broke at the moment. Most open source projects have some means of getting technical support. I know I'm not your boss, but I want you to prioritize and resolve my issue. I am in limbo right now, virtually silenced. I would be willing to make a donation to Calckey in return for my social network back. Please let me know what needs to be done. Surely, this isn't the way the Fediverse is supposed to operate. It's alright. We're still figuring things out.
Cheers, and have an awesome day!
—Ashwin.
Hello Kainoa,
Hope you're doing well.
Listen, I know I'm not your boss. But my whole online life is at your mercy now. Honestly, I love what you've done by forking Misskey and creating Calckey. It's so beautiful! Thoughtful User Interface, cool new features, freakin' MFM ( how cool is that! )! This is so awesome! Thank you so much! I have moved all my Fediverse accounts to my calckey.social account, because I really believe how amazing Calckey is, and what what potential it holds to change the world for the better.
I have been evangelizing Calckey, encouraging my 250+ Mastodon followers to try Calckey. I have been meaning to contribute to Calckey, with code, documentation, and Hindi language translations. However, I'm just a person with their own material constraints. I'm a bit depressed, and unemployed after a having been a programmer since 1984.
There was a public objection to my using the word "Tranny" as a transphobic slur. My dear Kainoa, I was programming computers and having gay sex, in 1984, before most people online were alive. I was wearing makeup and dresses in public, before most of the crowd even knew the word "drag". So being classified as "transphobic" really hurts my feelings.
"Tranny" is not such a bad word. I've been online since 1990. Transexual / Transvestite people have long used it to describe themselves. When I used to indulge in such explorations, CraigList personals would be full of hot people describing themselves as "passable trannies" ( People who looked like attractive females, but had penises )
So I was a bit dismayed at having suddenly become "persona non grata" in the Fediverse, after using one word ( "Tranny" ) , one time.
Now, I've lost my social life on the Fediverse. My followers are on calckey.social and I can't post, or migrate my followers. This is troubling for me. Please help restore my account on calckey.social or migrate it to evil.social so I can resume talking to my online friends.
Honestly, I am unemployed and broke at the moment. Most open source projects have some means of getting technical support. I know I'm not your boss, but I want you to prioritize and resolve my issue. I am in limbo right now, virtually silenced. I would be willing to make a donation to Calckey in return for my social network back. Please let me know what needs to be done. Surely, this isn't the way the Fediverse is supposed to operate. It's alright. We're still figuring things out.
Cheers, and have an awesome day!
—Ashwin.