This makes me feel icky

Unlike the Hashtag index, the @Mentions index is of beings, not terms and topics. I truly understand the significance of that. I only want this to be a postive and helpful thing, and not to exclude or make beings feel bad.

I collected this @Mentions index because I wanted to find content and discussions by beings regardless of what it was published. Originally I used it privately, but I have made it public because I believe it can help geminuats be closer together in this smol space of ours. I debated this choice for a while with myself, and should this index prove to not be a positive force, I will remove it.

I have taken special steps to keep this positive and affirming:

• Never using gendered pronouns or even labels like "people" or "humans" for a being.
• Only providing a view of mentions sorted alphabetically.
• Never providing a view of mentions sorted by how often a being is mentioned. Our community isn't a game that someone can "win" and mentions are not "points."
• Never using the word "popular."
• Reworking the mention-detection logic as liberal as I can so it finds as many mentions as possible, while minimizing the noise.

If you feels hurt or excluded or sad or just plain icky by any of this, I am sorry. Please contact me at acidus@gemi.dev to help me make it better.

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