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

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The app seems to be marked 17+ on the App Store, which means it may have “Infrequent/mild sexual content”.

The very first entry on the recent posts list is:

“tell us about your cum!”

I think you need to make a choice between being strictly adults-only and strictly SFW-only. If you allow under 18s and show them that kind of content, there will be headlines.

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

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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.

that's a backronym at best

the original joke was that despite being called /LGBT/ like 80 percent of all threads were about trans topics for a while at the start, with wlw and mlm general threads kinda on the side

so "trans trans trans trans"

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

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Looks more like a community of horny people and other weird stuff. I immediately saw: - Someone who wants to be treated as a dog - Someone who listed their "new experiences" which included "getting fisted", "being fucked with a (fake) knife", "sleeping in a dog crate" and more. - Someone looking for sex WTF?

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.

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

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The app seems to be marked 17+ on the App Store, which means it may have “Infrequent/mild sexual content”. The very first entry on the recent posts list is: “tell us about your cum!” I think you need to make a choice between being strictly adults-only and strictly SFW-only. If you allow under 18s and show them that kind of content, there will be headlines.

Reddit seems to do fine with mixed content. Just need to have good controls for it in app imo.

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

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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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> we can move on

Considering you've replied to 3 different threads starting the same flame war (and are apparently unwilling to accept actual data), I am very skeptical of your ability to move on.

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

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"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)

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

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The biggest piece of feedback I think I have gotten from posting here is that the nsfw content is a bit shocking which I get. Sorry about that. My guess is that if you just scrolled twitter or whatever by new exclusively unfiltered you wouldn’t have that different an experience. On the one hand I do think there is something interesting about the rawness of this network but also some sort of smart nsfw filtering is cl…

Several US states now require age verification for adult content (I don't know how that is defined). A case challenging such laws is being considered by the US Supreme Court, but most experts believe the court will allow the age verification.

That may mean users identifying themselves, which seems dangerous. (It should not at all be dangerous, but it is.) All you need is some phobic government official to sue or investigate you, for any reason they can come up with, and demand all your records as part of their lawsuit/investigation.

Perhaps there's a way to do age verification while minimizing privacy risks? For example, verify their age, give them their credentials, then delete the PII? I don't know if that would suffice if your age verification practices were challenged.

(Talk to an expert.)

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

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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…

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