I’ve been happily posting away here on two accounts since just before the Great Migration, and have no problem being openly a woman on the internet. Up to and including correcting people who assume I’m a guy, and even occasionally acknowledging the existence of periods.

Which, honestly that was a bad tactic back on Reddit, my inbox was a nightmare. But here it’s gone much better, so thank you to anyone who ever received one of my corrections with good grace!

It’s also brought quite a few DMs my way from other women who try to stay more anonymous with their posts, a choice I can completely understand.

So today on International Women’s Day I just want to wave hello to the other women out there, even if you don’t want to break cover and wave back. Anonymous or not, cis or trans, I see you out there and you’re killing it.

This may break the community rule on encouraging discussion, if nobody wants to out themselves to say hello back. So I guess I should also ask a question.

Um…anyone else using it as an excuse to treat themselves today? I’ve given myself the day (mostly) off work and am doing some fun gamedev all afternoon instead, then we’re planning a takeaway tonight. Easily pleased, perhaps, but sounds good to me 😄

    • ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.de
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      4 months ago

      Most platforms do this

      …but Lemmy at least tells you that the DMs are not private, and suggests an E2EE alternative. DM privacy is on the bucket list but it will take a while to implement. (Right now, it’s a botch where messages are just posts with restricted visibility.)

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      4 months ago

      There’s literally no way to avoid it unless Lemmy adds E2E encryption for direct messaging (which isn’t a bad idea).

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      4 months ago

      There is a big disclaimer warning people in the DM redaction page