Thanks for clarifying the situation. In that case, yeah, defederation pretty much solves it.

And yeah, trolls can just register a new account, but if they’re doing it on an instance with active admins, they don’t last long.

Which should be standard but unfortunately instances aren’t created equal. At least with the instance you’re running, it seems to be going well. Keep up the good work.

It could be brought up in a feedback community or feature request page if it exists.

But it is also good to have the ability to communicate effectively with autistics, yet your framing may contribute to drown that consideration.

I can see where you’re coming from and I appreciate the constructive criticism. My intention was to convey that difficulties will still be present for many autistic people when communicating despite accommodations, but I do not intend to dismiss existing progress made by advocates to educate neurotypical people about autistic communication.

(…) and you may be successful at masking with a communication style that doesn’t come natural to you for a day, a week, a month, years - but all of that is extra effort you’re loading on your back for the sake of not coming off as weird (…)

I find it extremely difficult to fully mask personally and that doing so brings great strain on myself so I avoid doing it as much as possible. It helps that I have recently had the opportunity to be in a supportive environment where I can be fully unmasked without backlash. The possibility of societal acceptance in a wide variety of environments is very foreign to me. I think it’s something I’ll mull over.

There’s a difference between solitude and loneliness.

I’m referring to bigotry that occurs on the same instance regardless of the source. Defederating helps if the bigotry comes from accounts registered on different instances but it doesn’t stop them from making accounts on the same instance to harass people, nor does it stop people who already have accounts on the same instance to start harassing people. This is where moderation comes in.

Alternatively, some instance admins restrict their registrations to manual approval to limit the possibility of new trouble.

What features are you looking for?

despair

There would still be conflict relating to that as there are many autistic people who have the reduced capacity to work or outright cannot work at all.

This is something I tried to take into consideration for my comment as it is difficult to really give a definitive answer. I think people forget that autistic people aren’t guaranteed to cooperate with each other and may even have more conflicts.

I was more interested in the percieved respect, honesty, integrity (e.g. people not nicking your stuff if you drop something somewhere), generally friendly attitudes, tech innovation, appliance design etc.

I like those aspects of Japanese culture as well but I think it’s always good to be wary of accidentally romanticising a culture as no country is perfect.

Upvotes/downvotes are usually for the approval/disapproval of the comment itself so it would be best to upvote a comment expressing your opinion or write your own if there isn’t any.

I wouldn’t recommend it unless moderation grows more robust and there’s a clear way to deal with legal issues such as uploaded CSAM/CSEM.

Disclaimer: Not MTF, just lurking communities/magazines.

Defederating helps for instances that are exclusively used for bigotry or prominently contains bigoted content but bigotry within your instance should be managed with active moderation. I haven’t explored all of the features on Lemmy and kbin but there may also be features that allow you to curate your experience, which will hopefully reduce the transphobia you receive. Sorry that you had to deal with that on your posts.

It would also be waste of time if the “dumb” person is arguing in bad-faith. I would even argue that it’s smart to value your time and redirect it to something worthwhile, as you’ve said.

You could try asking on c/support.

The concept is nice but the search results are less than ideal.

I wouldn’t encourage autistic people to exploit themselves and be exploited, especially as many can suffer from autistic fatigue and burnout.

Accidentally, yes. I wouldn’t know how they would be affected though.

I don’t think there will be mainstream appeal until it is easy and fun to use for the average person

This is the reality that doesn’t get acknowledged in a lot of FOSS projects. An opt-out for algorithm dislikers such as myself should be enough to satisfy everyone.

AFAIK, Krita’s more oriented towards 2D illustration than image editing.