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  • I don’t the only that’s necessarily what your therapist was getting at.

    I’m not defending her stance on Israel btw. Also her stance on Israel might imply religious beliefs and that’s a whole other conversation.

    However, I disagree with the commenter that said self-awareness is a good thing.

    If you want to go through life empowering others, avoiding doing any harm of any kind, and leaving the world somehow better for your existence, then yes self awareness is a good thing.

    However, if you want to be happy, satisfied, and go through life being comfortable and not require therapy, then self awareness is most definitely not a good thing.

    That is to say, self awareness is highly correlated with anxiety and depression.





  • Even though most users don’t self host, the ability to still gives users more agency even if they choose not to.

    Its a bit like using open source software even if you can’t understand the source code. The open source influences the behavior of the admins. That’s exactly what’s going on here really.

    This drama wouldn’t exist on a closed source platform because we probably wouldn’t know about it.



  • I’m not sure I really understand you.

    One of the foundational concepts of opensource software, self hosting, and federated software, is that users have more equity and agency than they would if they were users or “consumers” on a corporate platform.

    If you don’t want to support the behavior of a developer, you don’t have to.

    That said, I’m aware that my instance is running piefed, which is at the centre of this drama.