• CazzoBuco@lemmy.world
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    3 days ago

    Used to have an extension like this until I noticed people were marking names as anti-trans simply because they didn’t like them and realized no one even needed to submit any proof/source, so I ended up uninstalling

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      2 days ago

      I’ma be real, it’s highly concerning to install something like that in the first place. I can’t place my finger on it tho why.

      Cause it sounds like a good idea on paper. But my brain keeps going to toxic positivity and that doesn’t feel entirely right?

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      3 days ago

      Is it only me that just hates the idea of “marking” someone up-front, rather than deriving what you think of them from their actions? My point being that the way we interpret things should be “this thing is bad” -> “the person is bad”, not the inverse “this person is marked as bad” -> “they said/did something” -> “that thing must be bad”.

      I feel like an extension like this is built around facilitating the latter: Judging the content or actions based on whether the sender is tagged as “good” or “bad”, rather than looking at the words and actions themselves.