in further genocidal news: conservatives are currently violating patient privacy protections to create lists of queer people so they can be tracked down and attacked with the might of the state.
@airidescence its literally a vicious cycle, it's so incredibly fucked up
@exiliaex a rly good book i was reading was about this, and it was p good tbh https://www.amazon.co.uk/States-Liberation-Dictatorship-Democracy-European/dp/1487542143
Basically, it talks about both west/east germany and how these laws compare, plus explains the years before and after. I'd definitely recommend.
if you want to read more it's called Paragraph (or Section) 175.
@Harryhol not in the same way, no. there were pushes to change it. the most significant of those pushes happened in the 70s, when the law was adjusted to only apply to sex with minors instead of homosexuality. but, crucially, the law actually had different age-of-consent laws for homosexual acts than for heterosexual acts.
heterosexual age of consent was 14, homosexual age of consent was 21, in the 70s that age of consent was lowered for homosexuality to 18.
@xan i was on masto years ago and i tried to be a part of the "encourage others to have good site etiquette" but honestly, i've dropped the whole thing because its always just "berate others" and its annoying.
the best way to use this site is for everyone to stop acting like we're building the perfect site of the future with the perfect way to engage with each other and instead to just post and have fun.
@agreedyboi the problem with the decentralised alternatives rn is that they all are like... 80% of the way to being good.
we need the pushes that'll make these services and softwares better. mastodon has *so* many UI "weirdnesses" that you just have to get used to or have someone explain to you. that sucks. it should be far more intuitive than it is for the average user. and there should be simpler setup experiences too, for people to run their own servers.
@agreedyboi i'm hoping this continued wave of profit-seeking ventures on previously free products encourages a far more varied use of programs and networks like the fediverse. i still expect there to be big central places like twitter/reddit/discord. but the more variance the better imo
@agreedyboi i wonder what happened behind the scenes that made every site lose their minds
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