pronoun sites in general
i just don't get them. i mean, the actual pronouns are almost always shorter than the url.
i'm not sure who needs the examples. maybe for people with really weird neopronouns? but i can figure it our just fine.
i guess it's mainly for people who like pronouns and have a ton of pronouns.
the review
the site itself
from a purely website(?) perspective, it's MY thing. its source code is openly available, has an api we can use, you can login with mastodon, etc...
it even uses backdrop-filter: blur for the top bar!
the pronouns stuff
i like how it's more than just your pronouns. i usually prefer sites to be minimal, but i think a purpose is more important than minimalism. it's more like those "color in your boundary" images, where you choose your boundaries and how okay you are with certain things. the key difference is the elegance - instead of editing and saving a blurry jpeg for it to be compressed further on social media sites, it's stored and presented as just the data; and because it's data, you can customize it without editing the image.
i like the inclusiveness, like how it has tons of languages, with teams of native speakers adapting the site. it's weird to think how much of our pronouns stuff is english exclusive. unfortunately i don't speak any of those languages, so i can't judge how well they adapted to it.
chinese pronouns tangent
except for chinese, which i'm not familiar with. i have never heard of 90% of these pronouns. it's cool that they added a section for ancient pronouns. we should call them paleopronouns.
here's my personal experience with chinese pronouns:
- as a dumbass kid i only knew 他, the gender-neutral third-person pronoun.
- but then apparently there's a new pronoun for females only (她), that's pronounced exactly the same; while the gender-neutral one gets associated with male because it's the only way to refer to males. but since they're pronounced the same, pronouns don't matter unless you're writing things down, and even then it's optional stylistic flair.
- and to be clear, i'm the ignorant one, the female pronoun is probably older than me, and i'm not aware of the history behind them. there are probably parts of the world that treat 他 exclusively as masculine too.
- either way, the evolution just feels backwards.
licencing tangent
it's under the Opinionated Queer License v1.1. technically not open source.
liscences like these are rare for a reason. everyone has different ethics, ethics are extremely difficult to define in an enforceable way, people see your licence as nothing but a legal risk, and most importantly, unethical people likely don't care about following licences.
honestly, i see this as more of a symbolic gesture than anything.
here's the page
i don't think i'll actually update it. i don't think i put that much though into it either.