:O

false, there are no boys on the internet - we will require a photo of a sharpie in your butt to prove it you’re not a girl

pretty sure OP is a woman

not down for me

are you a boomer? lol

my partner asked me to include my proclivity to bite her in my patient history document submitted for my testing for ASD 😅 now I’m wondering if there is a pattern here - are other biters also autistic?

yes!

also, where does this urge to bite come from? I don’t really know many other people who like to bite (or be bitten) …

this is like the 5th meme like this I’ve seen, I think I’m hitting a breaking point

also, this feels like boomer humor or something, it feels so weirdly out-of-touch and not self-aware (hey, like I’m being right now!)

oh, that’s nice - I remember enjoying aspects of ZeroNet, though it was hard to filter all the junk out; it was also much smaller than Lemmy.

I think you will probably fit in nicely on Lemmy, tbh - anti-Zionism is pretty much the default here (which is why I assume you got kicked from Reddit), and there are a lot of techie people here, too.

Thanks for being nice to me and hearing me out 💕

ZeroNet was doing something similar over a decade ago, the idea of a radical free-speech / censorship-resistant blockchain-mediated forum is nothing new. (In the end these spaces tend to attract pedophiles, Nazis, and other such taboo groups who experience the most censorship elsewhere.)

My issue with this is less about a lack of knowledge (I have more crypto and blockchain knowledge than I would like to have), but more about the disappointment in crypto-bro culture and their ideological associations. NFTs, cryptocurrency, and blockchain technologies are all darlings of reactionaries and grifters - it’s a toxic culture, and I’m just not interested in anything associated with it.

that checks out - thanks for finding that info for me!

Breaking Bad

oh, it’s crypto-bro blockchain stuff, yeah … no thanks 😅

here are the last two years of actively monthly user stats on Lemmy:

https://lemmy.fediverse.observer/stats&months=24

note that a lot of people are migrating to piefed (which integrates with lemmy and serves the same purpose):

https://piefed.fediverse.observer/stats&months=12

EDIT:

I guess one take-away is that Mirage and Lemmy are not really comparable: Mirage has fewer than 2,000 users, Lemmy has over a million registered users with tens of thousands of users active at a given time.

how many active users does Mirage have? I’ve never heard of it before

some instances you don’t have to supply an email to make an account, you don’t have to provide any personal info

good girl 🩷

yeah, but this is some tasty propaganda

(disclaimer: I’m a trans woman who has never used a chest binder)

I’ve heard good things about tomboyx as a brand - though I think they can be pricey.

here’s a cute, introductory comic about binding:

https://www.ohjoysextoy.com/binders-jey-pawlik/

I think the most important parts from the comic I want to highlight are:

• binding can be a health risk, and it’s important to never bind more than 8 - 12 hours at a time
• when binding, make sure to stretch every couple hours
• to have at least one day a week in which you don’t bind at all
• to never bind using tape, bandages, plastic wrap, etc.
• make sure the binder you wear is not too small and not compressing too much

I don’t know much about the health risks and mitigation strategies for binding, so I recommend doing a lot of research up-front.

Much luck!

that’s excellent context, thank you!