After reading up about it on Wikipedia, no we don’t think that is what we mean.

Sure! Happy to help.

Oh, well we can explain that.

Firstly it depends on if all of us are saying something or think a certain thing or just one of us.

Secondly if you’re referring to our post history it was a mixture of that and not wanting to be out here but we’ve had enough of hiding what/who we are recently and now it feels wrong to do that so we decided to be more ‘public’ about it.

Does that help?

Edit: And who can blame us really for not wanting to be ‘out’ about it when we get reactions like we did earlier?

We’ve only encountered somemany try to invalidate our existence once before and we were physically in a room with them (they are plural also) and the vitriol that spewed from their mouth was worrying, we didn’t out ourselves to them.

However, we had to to a friend who was also there which we did much later when she said that the other plural group knew more than us because she assumed we weren’t plural incorrectly, so we outed ourselves and that was that. Since then we’ve met other plural groups and felt more comfortable being who we are and knowing that we exist.

We are very tired of hiding our existence and wish the world was accepting and understanding of us, but it seems it still is not and a lot of people both plural and singlet have a lot invested in invalidating our existence or trying to twist it to how they exist and only accepting ‘medical’ ‘scientific’ ways of us existing.

This isn’t useful because not every{one/many} works the same way nor is everymany who are plural ‘disordered’ in the sense that the plurality itself causes problems or distress.

Only people whether singlet or plural telling us we don’t exist, don’t know what we’re talking about or trying to invalidate us just because people now spread knowledge of it online (and sure there are some fakers out there but like, we don’t hate them and hope they find what they’re looking for or discover they are actually what they thought they were ‘faking’) causes us distress.

Really though, I don’t want to have to justify our existence every time we use a different pronoun, just like being transgender (which we also are). We see so much hate about that too and it would just be so much simpler if people just believed us and stopped trying to play armchair psychologists or ‘spot the faker’ that shit doesn’t help anyone and people will figure themselves out in time and will probably be honest if they aren’t what they claimed to be, so why not believe them? What does it cost you to believe them?

Maybe it does cost something and we’re sorry if it does but we just don’t like what we experienced today or back several years ago and would like it to stop.

Oh, it’s because Beehaw wants to move away from lemmy and onto sublinks when it is done, and are stuck on this version of lemmy until it is as upgrading would break things as they are now from our understanding.

Thank you! Did that fix it?

Lol, but no. That’s not what we mean.

In reponse to your edit.

This is nothing to do with DID and we aren’t roleplaying.

We likely have been plural longer than you have been alive and before things like tiktok existed too (which we aren’t even on), so we do know what we are and don’t appreciate the accusation that you having likely no experience with this know our experience better than we do.

Also medical science does show this is a real thing but outside of DID and other such things it has not been researched.

So neither you nor ‘science’ knows what you/it is talking about.

How is being plural being a troll?

We suggest you do some reading

https://morethanone.info

https://pluralpedia.org

We don’t understand.

We’re plural.

We’re very nervous about anything that claims or wants to index the fediverse. Which is what we thought this was wanting to do at least in part, but reading through we aren’t sure if it does or not want to do that or will.

[Sarcasm] Can’t see how this will go wrong at all, nope.

Okay, that’s fair we didn’t think of gameplay related questions or a devlog, though in that case FAQs on a site, blogs, a wiki, mastodon (like you said), or we suppose open matrix rooms (that allow guests) would work as well for some if not all of those things.

Yes, we were also talking about that.

We think it shouldn’t be on a closed platform that isn’t indexable.

I don’t want to join a messenger or social network to have a question answered. I strongly believe some{one/many} should be able to ask a question or a dev should be able to do a notification on an open and least indexable platform so any{one/many} can see it without having to create an account.

The web for this kind of stuff should be open, not closed.

Benefits devs in trying to communicate with users too, that way they only have to say something once.

For this kind of thing, yup or issue trackers.

Ioo they really shouldn’t, no idea what was ‘wrong’ with just using github, gitlab, forgejo etc, but those are the places that development should be done, not on messengers or social media.

Especially because you can allow guests on Matrix.

But seriously, no, they shouldn’t, they should stop thinking tech reports, issues and distribution should be on a platform not made for them. A lot of people don’t want to join a ‘community’ just to submit an issue, we already have issue trackers etc: Github, gitlab, forgejo to name but a few.

Discord and Matrix are not places to do tech development and interact with those that use your products, code and projects ioo.

I am persistant though, I will find some way to contact them that isn’t discord or other closed proprietary tech, like email, heh.

Yup, we can only hope.

Sad for all the lost projects but hopefully they’ll learn to not place all their faith in big tech that will get enshittified and take everything with it.

They’re so close to figuring it out but don’t have that much self awareness, or perhaps just have cognitive disonance about it.

Yeah, we truly despise that if help is wanted/neeed or changes have to be done for some things it must be done on discord? Why? I don’t want to join a ‘community’ just to ask for something, I’d rather just open an issue.

So we refuse to join, and just open an issue and hope it’s noticed.