Comment by gnarbarian
3 years ago
This is a great idea and I absolutely love it.
The only thing I don't like is the branding. It seems to have some political undertones to it.
I think combining this with a product like crypt pad is a great start towards creating a more independent Google workspace competitor.
(and I'm flagged lol, way to prove my point)
Where do you pick up political undertones? I'm genuinely curious. I read the whole landing page and it is all lighthearted and friendly, and I pick up on nothing that makes me think otherwise.
The example profile includes pronouns.
What is political about an additional axis along which some people choose to make known how they'd like to be referred to? I'm genuinely asking. I don't believe things become political when they happen to be split down party lines in <current country> -- if that were the case then climate change is political now, but climate change is as debatable as, say, the existence of subatomic particles. IMO something is political when it actually relates to what politicians do, i.e., it's something you can vote for. You can't vote for... a ban on using pronouns that don't match birth sex? A ban on sharing pronouns at all?
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I'm so tired of the constant battle to make very simple, innocent ideas political.
Sooo f*ing tired.
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Probably also has birthday and an option for an avatar and various other personal attributes; what of it?
(I mean, yes, in the last few years this has been politicised, primarily in the US, by a right wing desperate for a new wedge issue, but you'd have to be fairly gullible to fall for that...)
It's more than that, it's the entire theme. It screams "you're not welcome here."
It's the left wing equivalent of putting up a bunch of burning crosses and pretending they don't mean anything.
I know exactly how fairly I would be treated in that community and it looks like this: (the flagged and dead comment below this)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34271510
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This says more about you than the branding.
It's hard to notice anything these days without getting in trouble.
How are you in trouble?
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I hadn't heard of Transhumansim before so I looked it up. Wikipedia says:
> Transhumanism is a philosophical and intellectual movement which advocates the enhancement of the human condition by developing and making widely available sophisticated technologies that can greatly enhance longevity and cognition.
Is that the word you meant to use? It doesn't seem to fit with the rest of your list/comment.
I mean it in the sense of rejecting the “constraints” of our nature and seeking to move beyond them as far as possible.