(can't post link currently as their site is down again lol)

Not only did they not differentiate gender between cis and trans, it also came out that they're like 80% white and they instantly got into a struggle session because the admin said that number was "unfortunate" can't make this shit up lmao

    • aaaaaaadjsf [he/him, comrade/them]
      ·
      1 year ago

      Back when we did a survey after the move from Reddit, there were more trans women than cis women on hexbear/chapo.chat lmao

    • Changeling [it/its]
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      1 year ago

      This has been brought up before and a few regulars have piped up. There are, indeed, cis women on the internet. /lh

    • Awoo [she/her]
      ·
      1 year ago

      would love to see us conduct a census as well

      We should not encourage people to give out personal information. It's a dox risk.

      • GaveUp [she/her]
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        1 year ago

        Anonymized aggregated poll data is perfectly fine

        Like sure, you'll be inputting your age, gender, race, into a Google form or something but like, who here doesn't already have their entire life including their full name already tracked by Google?

        • radiofreeval [any]
          ·
          1 year ago

          Please don't use more Google stuff. There are plenty of FOSS forms that would work well

          • GaveUp [she/her]
            ·
            1 year ago

            You're definitely right, I've just personally given up on any digital privacy and data sovereignty cause my life has already been far to entrenched in Google and Meta services. decoupling is almost impossible

            • radiofreeval [any]
              ·
              1 year ago

              De googling is hard, try going in small steps, replacing 1 service at a time.

              • GaveUp [she/her]
                ·
                1 year ago

                Biggest thing stopping me is that I want a reliable, redundant, highly available and durable cloud storage for my documents

                I considered setting up a home server once but I don't have experience setting up any servers or infrastructure from scratch myself and I'm not sure if I wanna spend hundreds of hours and thousands of dollars doing it

                • radiofreeval [any]
                  ·
                  1 year ago

                  Nextcloud is good, if money is your biggest concern you could use a VPS & be paranoid about encryption.

        • Awoo [she/her]
          ·
          1 year ago

          Literally just clicking a google docs link at all is a dox risk. Every time you view a google doc while logged in it shows your user account having accessed the file, which exposes name on the account.

          • aaaaaaadjsf [he/him, comrade/them]
            ·
            1 year ago

            Yeah back in the chapo.chat early days before people wised up I dm'ed multiple people to warn them that I could see their real names when they posted Google photo galleries and documents.

            • Awoo [she/her]
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              1 year ago

              Its been a method of petty doxxing in gaming communities for years and years it's really irritating tbh. Gotta be real careful about google docs links while logged in, I always open them incognito for this reason just to be certain I'm not accidentally logged in.

          • Aceivan [they/them]
            ·
            1 year ago

            google forms doesn't do that by default afaik, but yeah. best to just avoid google altogether