So like only fans, which I also refuse to pay for?
Tip Jar
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#132Earlier quoted context omitted.
you have to update your social security card first. it's doable, but it's a whole chain of paperwork and documents. I transitioned 5 years ago and I still haven't really updated my legal name.
But isn't legal name official name? I mean, I can claim my name is whatever I like, but when the police pull me or a bank clerk ask me for an ID to identify myself before withdrawing the money, what stays there would be something different. I am surprised that in the USA one is even allowed to present himself in the official context by the "non official" name. Is changing a legal name there so complex? Yes, it's a lo…
so the process, iirc, is:
* Court order to change name (I've done this, but decided I didn't like the name so I need to do it again.)
* Send form to change sex on driver's license (did this.)
* Go in person to DMV to update name and get new photo (haven't done this because pandemic.)
* Update gender and name on passport (requires attestation from doctor, copy of court order, previous passport and current ID, if passport is expired) (haven't done this.)
* Update gender and name on social security card (requires updated passport.)
* Update name on bank (requires updated social security card)
And to change sex on birth certificate, according to the rules of my state:
* Get endorsements from therapist and psychiatrist for vaginoplasty.
* Get vaginoplasty.
* Doctor attests to the state that you have a vagina now.
* Original birth certificate, attestation and passport -> updated birth certificate.
The last step isn't super necessary unless you're emigrating to another country.
Re: Tip Jar
#133Earlier quoted context omitted.
But isn't legal name official name? I mean, I can claim my name is whatever I like, but when the police pull me or a bank clerk ask me for an ID to identify myself before withdrawing the money, what stays there would be something different. I am surprised that in the USA one is even allowed to present himself in the official context by the "non official" name. Is changing a legal name there so complex? Yes, it's a lo…
so the process, iirc, is: * Court order to change name (I've done this, but decided I didn't like the name so I need to do it again.) * Send form to change sex on driver's license (did this.) * Go in person to DMV to update name and get new photo (haven't done this because pandemic.) * Update gender and name on passport (requires attestation from doctor, copy of court order, previous passport and current ID, if passp…
Looks unnecessary complicated, but it seems there's no way around some of the complexity if you live in a country without a centrally issued ID for every citizen.
However, the whole gender and name changing process should not have to be more complicated than what people that want to change name after marrying have to do. But I guess there's still no political will to make it simpler.
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#134Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's much more likely that Mastodon is just full of the sort of people who get kicked off all the centralised platforms.
Mastodon is that, but also the opposite. It literally depends entirely on which instance you choose. There are servers of all kinds, here are some listed on their site: General (41) Regional (29) Art (7) Music (2) Journalism (1) Activism (7) LGBTQ+ (7) Gaming (5) Technology (15) Furry (3) Food (2)
And if you find you get a lot of the toxic variety coming from a certain instance, you can block it entirely.
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#135Earlier quoted context omitted.
Not just that, there are plenty of debates and discussions that don't need every single one of the billions of people on this planet as potential participants. The people who decry changes like being able to restrict who can reply to you as "eroding discussion" don't seem to realise that what they're actually saying is "either you commit to listening to/engaging with random total strangers yelling whatever they want…
>there are plenty of debates and discussions that don't need every single one of the billions of people on this planet as potential participants. But WHO decides that? It is just like here on Hacker News, you cannot down vote until you have 500 upvotes? I may have a new novel idea or frame of reference that could benefit the world but I get downvoted on everything I say it never gets out. So who decides? The one's in…
> But WHO decides that?
The person who is talking, as is very obvious from the feature being discussed.
Re: Tip Jar
#136I remember in 2017 in /r/dogecoin, we would tip each other thousands of doge (back then, it was 1/10th of a penny) for "such many random and much wow comment in forum". This was achieved with a DOGE tipping bot. This idea will most likely work if Twitter starts supporting it as a first class feature. And maybe it will encourage people to speak about things that are valuable. Or maybe it will continue to encourage the…
On the other hand /r/cryptocurrency introduced "moons" as tipping mechanism and the quality of the discussions went downhill really quick. Nowadays, there's lots of sob stories or random posts about how a person just bought in to some random coin, personal anecdotes, etc. I think whatever tipping is implemented needs to be pretty much worthless (aka mostly symbolic), otherwise, people will just spend a lot of their t…
Quality on /r/cryptocurtency was always very poor. Moons improved the quality, if anything, excepting the rise in sob stories you mention.
Moons also allowed a lot of people to get paid for their Reddit activity. For people living in the developing world, this has in some cases been a life-changing sum.
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#137Earlier quoted context omitted.
A drug dealer could also get cheese from their customers instead of cash. Would that make sense? About as much as using twitter tips, I guess.
It would be a (flimsy) excuse for you to pay them, when in fact you are paying them for drugs.
Dealers who operate at a scale where twitter tips or venmo are viable payment methods are not operating at a scale where they'd need any excuses.
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#138Apparently if you send someone a tip with this they get your mailing address as part of the receipt. https://twitter.com/racheltobac/status/1390409874006183936 This is a PayPal issue, but Twitter are responding by adding a warning so people know it will happen: https://twitter.com/kayvz/status/1390423761183117312 ?
This is pretty dissuading from using the tip feature. Ultimately, Twitter had to make a choice of which processor to go with and PayPal was clearly the winner here. Perhaps in a year or so they may move to Stripe.
What would (maybe) be a good move is to process the transactions through Twitter itself?
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#139Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yep PayPal is awful about this stuff. I have a friend who's deadname was leaking through PayPal reciepts. They couldn't change it because PayPal insisted on showing the name of the account holder which was validated through the bank account linking. To protect them I now manage the account they have people send payments and donations to. It's suboptimal but it's the only way we can be totally sure their deadname does…
Today's ten thousand: "Deadnaming" is apparently calling a transgender person by the old name they abandoned, a "deadname" being the name of their former identity. IMO that's a weird term.
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#140Earlier quoted context omitted.
I, too, have noticed this in /r/cryptocurrency. Lots of posts that are just obviously trying to farm moons with generic popular opinions. Meanwhile, the mods are getting a salary in moons. Really interesting stuff, for sure. Back in the dogecoin days, this wasn't an issue because it was purely for the memes. Sending someone a few thousand doge as a meme tip cost you a few dollars at most, and that point the karma was…
Like giving someone tulips as a present in 1637 and then finding out there is a tulip mania and had you grown new ones from the seeds you would be a millionaire. Some things never change.
The famous 1636/1637 tulip mania (such as it was) lasted just a few months over the winter, collapsing in February. There was no time to grow anything in that period.