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Greetings #Fediverse members!
I've been joining a number of conversations about the recent growth on the Fediverse, and I keep hearing the term "users".
I'd like to remind everyone here that the community is made up of people, humans, members.
"Users" dehumanises, alienates, and allows for a particular brand of technospeak that smacks of addicted eyeballs and lost privacy.
I am a member of the community, not a user of software. Please try to reduce, ahem, using the word.
@jaz users are humans using something, be it software, network or whatever. There's nothing dehumanising or alienating about it, please stop trying to redefine and shun words just because you don't like one of the ways they are used. That's like saying "travelers" is dehumanising because it's also used by crappy travel corpos.
