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I want to work on a privacy oriented alternative to Simply Plural. I love the app, and am extremely grateful for it's existence, and don't get me wrong - no hate to the developer/s. They do an excellent job handling the entire app the way that they have. Their dedication is admirable.

I just personally don't like how central it is, and 100% offline use is impossible. The backend is powered by Google, and there is no officially supported avenue for de-Googled devices. I also don't like trusting their management of my data, there is very little transparency about how it is stored and whether any of it is encrypted in any way (which I doubt, considering their policy up to now has amounted to "just trust us" which, is not ideal). It's not even them I don't 100% trust - if there is a breach, everything is visible.

This isn't designed to spread fear, I think their platform is solid and they are the right minded people to manage this kind of application. I personally would rather not have to depend on them though, and the idea for this alternative is as follows;

• Offline by design
• Designed for personal tracking use rather than sharing with others (Pk & SP exist for this purpose)
• Integratable with Pk/SP for those that want it
• Desktop app to begin with, then mobile app

Those who are fine with SP will probably not see the point of this, and that's fine. Even if I keep it as a merely personal project, that's probably fine too. I'm just curious to know what other plurals' feelings are on the matter.

Does/can F/O also apply to (imagined/fictional) relationships with factual sources? Whether just regular people you know/know of, or celebrities. If not, is there a word like it for this kind of (sometimes parasocial) relationship? Either way, I have... a few :')

(Man, my internet has been a pig and I've been looking all over for this group, for some reason it didn't show up in the community search ...)

Anyway... I guess I'm learning to accept this part of me. Granted, I am not in (or would be able to persue) this type of relationship but I realized today that I have had the feeling for at least 2 of my 1st cousins since I was young T_T It feels really wrong to acknowledge it but what else can I do?? Oh well. Thanks for listening. 💌

Hey all :D I read a post on Tumblr recently, though I can't find it again, but I'm curious to know how you guys feel about the idea of encouraging transid folks to remove the trans- prefix from their ids if they want to, since it's their identity.

So, for example, someone who is not diagnosed autistic and doesn't fit the autism diagnostic criteria, but is transautistic, could say they are autistic because of their transid. I'm not debating the validity of their feelings because I support it 100% without doubt, but I do think language is important in communication and have some mixed feelings about it, especially considering how niche our community is and how literally nobody else uses cis- language outside of gender (it is just assumed that cisautistics are naturally autistic). I also don't think it is a good idea to give transids a 1:1 comparison to transgender ids, as things rarely are so directly comparable, though I do accept a lot of rhetoric and backlash against transids in support of transgender is hypocritical.

When it comes to gender, it's perfectly acceptable to go stealth and encourage others to see you as a gender without them knowing you transitioned. Although we like to use transgender as an example a lot, I feel transids are just not the same. If I told others I am Japanese, because I feel as though I should be and long for my self image to match it, I feel that would be lying since I am not Japanese in my body or my background. I have never even been to Japan! I also would be afraid of backlash in none-rq circles once it is found out I'm trace, not physically Japanese.

I just think the idea is interesting yet flawed, and am curious to know if others feel similarly or totally disagree.