@0xabad1deaabadidea Though people on the Internet may not always have the gender their avatar and name has… some cis men fem-code their profile on purpose, to get more attention, especially in men-dominated but merit-based environments (gamers, programmers). These are not trans persons, these are simply liars. Often they use drawings of girls instead of photos.
That doesn't mean the algorithm is useful, but neither are the criteria you give.
@forthy42Bernd Paysan R.I.P Natenom 🕯️ my sibling in posting, I am a woman (a cisgender one, if anyone needs to know) who spent 20 years being told over and over and over that I was the hypothetical lying attention whore man you are describing because I had the sick and twisted temerity to say I was a girl. Do lying attention whore men exist? yes. has virtually every woman in male dominated spaces been accused of being one? a thousand times more often than such men actually exist.
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