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

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Post by lazyasciiart »

quesera wrote: post #57
Atotalnoob wrote: post #53

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I didn’t see any non-text content, but I didn’t spend that much time looking. NSFW text is a thing, there are porn sites that house explicit text for zoophilia, pedophilia, incest, rape, etc. I’m not saying this site has anything extreme or out there, but there are likely laws governing what text can be shown, it’s simpler to just require login, since that will also help protect you against COPPA and other restrictio…

> there are laws governing how certain text is handled Is that true?? In the US? My instinctive metric[0] for NSFW is: Could a casual passerby see something that falls into a class of designated offensivenesses (e.g. sex of any kind, but not violence unless it's also sexual)? Text in a giant font could certainly qualify. But I would not think that ordinary-sized body text would be problematic -- if the passerby has t…

A better metric might be “could a casual network filtering program pick up something that would be forbidden at work”.

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

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Post by Melonai »

nikolay wrote: post #52

Don't trans people usually date/meet with non-trans people!?

No, trans people dating other trans people is actually extremely common (both homo- and heterosexual). Often because both (or more) people often understand each others struggles and wants way better than cis people do, and simply because if you like spending time primarily in trans-heavy communities, you will likely fall for someone who's also trans.

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

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Post by quesera »

lazyasciiart wrote: post #61
quesera wrote: post #57

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> there are laws governing how certain text is handled Is that true?? In the US? My instinctive metric[0] for NSFW is: Could a casual passerby see something that falls into a class of designated offensivenesses (e.g. sex of any kind, but not violence unless it's also sexual)? Text in a giant font could certainly qualify. But I would not think that ordinary-sized body text would be problematic -- if the passerby has t…

A better metric might be “could a casual network filtering program pick up something that would be forbidden at work”.

Good point. I have never suffered such indignity, but I forget my privilege.

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

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Post by dgares »

blast wrote: post #56
_cenw wrote: post #51

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that place is catastrophizing central and i would recommend against getting attached to it in any way

Sorry for being ignorant but what is that place?

It's a moniker for the 4chan board /lgbt/. The name comes from "To tell the truth," namely due to the reputation of trans 4chan users to be very harsh to one another.

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

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Post by thealistra »

sfink wrote: post #42

Please be very, very careful with security. That includes logging as little as you can get away with. Your site is a tempting target for a certain class of people.

literally my first thought - would be a nightmare if the user list leaked with emails or something

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

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Post by groby_b »

asdf6969 wrote: post #48
xemoka wrote: post #24

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I... am not sure if this is a joke or not. Grindr is not a community or posting tool. It's a hookup app.

That used to be true but Grindr has pivoted and now advertises itself as a 2SLGBTQIA+ community app

"Grindr advertises itself as community app" is about as meaningful as "Fast Food advertises itself as healthy" :)

(Also, for those who were confused by 2S - "Two-spirit". That one's new to me in terms of adding it to the acronym list)

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

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Post by 2muchcoffeeman »

t4t wrote: post #41
quesera wrote: post #39

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Interpreting Animats' question as concern for the user population, I think it's a valid one. The new administration in the US is openly hostile, and a lot of damage could be done to peoples' lives if, say, the community was hacked and private email addresses (or other PII) was leaked. And I also agree with you -- now's the time for those of us who can afford it, to fly our ally flags as loudly and proudly as possible…

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.

Why even keep location data at all?
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