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Ok, THIS is how you do UX for an e2ee messaging app when you want to make it clear who you are and aren't doing it for. 🔥

Props to @VeilidNetwork team.

@VeilidNetwork Tired: Having your cryptographic privacy project overrun by rightwing pedo assholes.

Wired: Telling them to fuck off before you become a nazi bar.

Inspired: putting a pronouns field on the account creation form so they fuck off by themselves and whine about woke mind virus and go use some insecure shit instead and end up in jail for the shit they're doing.

@dalias @VeilidNetwork Extra amusing that it's an optional field. They don't even have to use it.

Why is name required though given one presumably generates a key and then ephemeral keys from it? (And presumably friends will just assign a petname.)

@lispi314 @dalias @VeilidNetwork I was going to say... if you made pronouns a required field, you could guarantee every toxic person who registered would tell on themselves in it.

Cassandrich

@ocdtrekkie @lispi314 @VeilidNetwork Requiring declaration of pronouns is transphobic because it forces anyone who's not out to misgender themselves.