RexSystem1 voteoriginally by @arxari on GitHub3 replies
On top of my previous feedback I believe there is another aspec to consider.
There's a reason other than the technical one which is that as per psychiatry, for this source I use the Adult Treatment Guidlines from the ISSTD, I recommend to the lead behind Fluxer to read the "Treatment goals and Outcome" chapter but I will provide an excerpt below.
Integrated Functioning as the Goal of Treatment
Although the DID patient has the subjective experience of having separate
identities, it is important for clinicians to keep in mind that the patient is
not a collection of separate people sharing the same body. The DID patient
should be seen as a whole adult person, with the identities sharing respon-
sibility for daily life. Clinicians working with DID patients generally must
hold the whole person (i.e., system of alternate identities) responsible for
the behavior of any or all of the constituent identities, even in the presence
of amnesia or the sense of lack of control or agency over behavior (see
Radden, 1996).
Treatment should move the patient toward better integrated functioning
whenever possible. In the service of gradual integration, the therapist may, at
times, acknowledge that the patient experiences the alternate identities as if
they were separate. Nevertheless, a fundamental tenet of the psychotherapy
of patients with DID is to bring about an increased degree of communication
and coordination among the identities.
I think this is important because Fluxer should not be encouraging behavior that worsens disorders and mental health issues if it can avoid it. Given that this point was brought up in regards to accessibility for DID/Pluralism I hope that the acknowledged clinical literature can be used to seen the issues with this claim in reality.
To summarize it, implementing a feature that promotes the separate identities of alters for the presented reason being accessibility is going against acknowledged psychiatric documentation on treatment of Diassociative Disorders where the treatment goal is integrated functioning. A feature like the one discussed goes against the recommended treatment and worsens the condition of patients. That is something I feel Fluxer should refrain from doing if it can avoid it.
The above can be fact checked by any licensed psychiatrist.
As well to follow up to the technical points mentioned against my last post, this raises a case against the arguments raised against my point in regards to there being an existing feature that effectively allows the same thing (though not by design) called Community Profiles.
There is also the aforementioned UX complications etc. to consider
RexSystem1 voteoriginally by @Beethoven-n on GitHub OP
keep your comments helpful or keep them to yourself. not every plural person is disordered, and "becoming normal" is not the "solution" you think it is for everyone.
If you want to have a medicalized aspect to this (to be clear, not all plurality is plural for medicalized reasons. Some are just plural), why are you referencing an outdated resource? The ISSTD guidelines you mention, from what I can find, are from 2011. The DSM-V-TR (released 2022) mentions nothing about integration being a goal. The ICD-11 (released in Feburary of this year, 2026) mentions nothing about integration at all on their page about DID, and it goes out of its way to mention that having multiple personality states is not always indicative of a disorder of any kind. That as a bare minimum indicates that even from a medical perspective, plurality can be a normal (and for many people, while still a minority of the population, it is a normal). For some plural people, integration can be a solution or goal to their stresses in life, but there are many for which it is a stressor and would create even more problems.
Overall, plurality is under-studied, and disorders relating to it in some way have no consistent, evidence-backed treatment that we can point to as a solution, for those situations that call for solutions or balms to stressors. A psychiatrist that believes DID (or other disorders involving plurality in some form) necessitates integration would be, at best, only trained in very outdated resources and at worst malicious in their goals.
RexSystem1 voteoriginally by @bunnikyuube on GitHub
Hey, i understand your concerns probably come from a good place, and i respect that. As it stands, it's a grossly understudied and underrepresented set of conditions and experiences, and that's likely WHY you've been exposed to outdated information that has a view on the experience that doesn't align with many systems' goals and experiences. A lot of people who don't live the experience like to defer to people who study these phenomenons, however, those people in large capacity don't really exist, and even when people understand it on a certain level, it's very difficult for that information to become mainstream in any capacity.
A lot of the people commenting on this, myself included, are systems, and they're the best people you can listen to on how this stuff should be included, why, and what the benefits of it are. However, i also don't think any sort of evaluation of psychiatric impact is relevant, as any social media have ethical concerns in that regard FAR before the question of whether plural folks are able to send messages as one of multiple users. Drawing the line there is kinda moot, in my opinion.
Additionally, multiple people here HAVE tried to make a case for why this is beneficial to non-systems- like for roleplayers, or as an extension of server profiles for people who have a need for more granular control over expression around certain people or places,for use by Bridging bots or other things that utilize webhooks, and so on, so forth.
It's a useful feature, for everyone, end of story. It's just that plural folks are largely the reason this discussion happens as they have the most direct experience interfacing with the current, inadequate systems of managing messages like this. Hundreds of thousands of messages, all sent manually and directly through webhooks or other means, all configuring their systems through the bots on their own- all opposed to bridge bots, where messages often arent sent through them knowingly or manually, and configuration is almost entirely on the server moderators, NOT each individual user. You begin to realise, working like that, how inadequate it is, VERY quickly.
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