Post #2113717

2026-05-04 11:43 UTC

Was talking to another plural group recently and it said that it prefers having lots of accounts on a messaging protocol as it was the only thing that currently works in all the clients. I also asked again in Signal&#39;s forums if it was going to add plural support at all and haven&#39;t checked yet but it is likely I have recieved no useful reply. I was also thinking about monsterpit and how it had kind of plural support from what I can remember. It is very telling and upsetting that the only real support for plurality avaliable in anything where entities can converse is pluralkit on discord, and even that is a bot from what I can tell/remember (I have never used discord, so I don&#39;t know how pluralkit works). This is still not good enough and we need more thought given to us and care shown to us. #Plurality #Plural #Pluralmisia #Pluralphobia #PluralErasure #SupportPluralGroups #SupportSystems #PluralSystems #PluralGroups

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@transoptimal@solarpunk.moe 2026-05-04 12:29

@arisingvoice freetube, the third party youtube client we use, lets you have different profiles, which have their own subscriptions. which is like a bare minimum thing of differentiation¹ and we've yet to see even that anywhere else ¹: differentiation between authentication and identity like those are different things,,, you want to make sure noone who isnt allowed to do something does it, and use that to give everyone their own space that others can't mess with (the stuff that's tied to their authentication). but then what that space consists of is orthogonal to auth. we like to make distinctions like this between things that are different. big important. feels related to the thing where we like to say what we mean and not what we don't mean. like distinctions are used to draw the boundaries between the thing you mean and the thing you don't mean

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@tully@cathode.church 2026-05-04 12:38

@arisingvoice we read a while ago that polyphony, built atop polyproto, is intended to support nested identity

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