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Re: Show HN: I built an active community of trans people online

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If you've created a service with that many users, that could be a target for malicious actors, and also hosts NSFW content, you may want to look over this article and protect yourself by forming an LLC. https://denise.dreamwidth.org/91757.html

Thanks!

If you have time for a web interface, that would probably give some folks a better sense of security.

Re: Show HN: I built an active community of trans people online

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Cool app, I'll give it a try. Thanks for sharing, and I definitely appreciate feeling the need for an alternative to Lex (which is sad! they took VC money then had to hypergrowth or die, my prediction is that it will be the latter tbh).

If they would've kept super lean and focused on a sustainable business model, they could've been a pretty big success

Re: Show HN: I built an active community of trans people online

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Why even keep location data at all?

One of the main selling points of the app is that you can filter posts by distance, to facilitate people meeting and talking with their community.

So list a city?

Re: Show HN: I built an active community of trans people online

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There are also a number of high-user trans-specific and 2SLGBTQI+ Discord servers with varying degrees of activity (although the more fun ones tend to be private and you need to get an invite from a public server)

You can find some on Disboard or in Discord's recent server search facility.

Re: Show HN: I built an active community of trans people online

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In the post-Karl Popper academic landscape, it's hard to beat the absurdity to explanatory-power ratio of Sigmund Freud's "penis envy", but Ray Blanchard's ravings about trans people are certainly a contender. The "science experiments" he ran to "support" his "theories" aren't quite Philip Zimbardo levels of unethical quackery, but I'm still not sure how attaching electrodes to people's genitals and making them watch…

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Any argument against zodiac (birth) signs would apply equally well here. In fact, zodiac signs survive criticism better, because at least they have well-defined boundary conditions. What kind of "fetishistic transvestism" do I have if I'm a sex-repulsed aromantic trans woman?

Re: Show HN: I built an active community of trans people online

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post #41

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I am taking security very seriously. All sensitive rows are protected by RLS, and I have gone even further by adding random noise to all location data. Locations are locked down, but in the unfortunate event of a hack what would be leaked is location within a 5 or so mile range, not exact location. If it is possible on Supabase I would like to eventually obscure emails and oauth info.

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That's not an observation. That's speculation.

Re: Show HN: I built an active community of trans people online

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Any argument against zodiac (birth) signs would apply equally well here. In fact, zodiac signs survive criticism better , because at least they have well-defined boundary conditions. What kind of "fetishistic transvestism" do I have if I'm a sex-repulsed aromantic trans woman?

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Re: Show HN: I built an active community of trans people online

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Any argument against zodiac (birth) signs would apply equally well here. In fact, zodiac signs survive criticism better , because at least they have well-defined boundary conditions. What kind of "fetishistic transvestism" do I have if I'm a sex-repulsed aromantic trans woman?

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So it fits "essentially every individual", except the example I just gave? Come on, even Freudian psychoanalysis has a better success rate than that.

> the excruciating process of transition

I have only ever seen people describe transition with words like "excruciating" for two reasons:

• Social barriers, e.g. medical gatekeeping, transphobic bigotry.

• Believing in the Blanchard or 4chan classification systems, and constantly judging themselves accordingly.

Please don't hold onto this so tight. It's not healthy, and there's zero evidence that it's even remotely true.

Re: Show HN: I built an active community of trans people online

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Okay posting this is really reminding me to prioritize a smart nsfw toggle. My guess is that if you just scrolled twitter or whatever by new exclusively unfiltered you wouldn’t have that different an experience.

I dont think this is true at all.

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Re: Show HN: I built an active community of trans people online

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

In the post-Karl Popper academic landscape, it's hard to beat the absurdity to explanatory-power ratio of Sigmund Freud's "penis envy", but Ray Blanchard's ravings about trans people are certainly a contender. The "science experiments" he ran to "support" his "theories" aren't quite Philip Zimbardo levels of unethical quackery, but I'm still not sure how attaching electrodes to people's genitals and making them watch…

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https://aella.substack.com/p/everyone-has-autogynephilia

If you want to base your understanding of the world on data rather than anecdata, here.

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