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Don't trans people usually date/meet with non-trans people!?
In 2024 I went on a bit of a dating spree and I had first dates with 6 other trans women. 1 cis woman ghosted me. I think most cis women-who-love-women do like trans women, but they just have more options.
Either HN suddenly became far more constructive and considerate, and on an inflammatory topic, or dang is doing an incredible job moderating this discussion. I'll just hazard a guess and say - thank you dang! But dang - please don't let this off-topic comment sit at the top of the page and distract from t4t's post.
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All the porn companies have handled this by simply blocking the sites in the states in question, just forcing people to use VPNs. If you ask for ID verification to see NSFW content they know hardly anyone would provide it, and at the same time it opens you up to a lot of liability in handling extremely sensitive PII. The whole thing is just moralistic BS anyway. I'm sure most kids can figure out how to use a VPN bett…
Pedantic, but the word you're looking for is proxy , not VPN. A Virtual Private Network is a private network such as a Local Area Network created virtually on a Wide Area Network such as the internet. Tailscale, SoftEther, or Hamachi for the old boys are examples of VPN implementations. A proxy is a server that accepts and forwards traffic from clients through it, lending its IP address to clients as the traffic orig…
That is, does the ISP have access to the information that's being accessed via the proxy?
It was my understanding that proxies tending to mask where a request came from but does nothing significant with the data between it and the requester.
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?
Communities of horny people are indeed weird stuff.
I remember one time when I accidentally happened upon one such community, naively thinking it was just a local bar.
Oh wait, that's every local bar I've ever set foot in.
What community do you live in, and what do they put in the water there? :)
Either HN suddenly became far more constructive and considerate, and on an inflammatory topic, or dang is doing an incredible job moderating this discussion. I'll just hazard a guess and say - thank you dang! But dang - please don't let this off-topic comment sit at the top of the page and distract from t4t's post.
If you turn on "show dead", there's an unusually large and alarming number of dead replies on this ranging from fairly banal flame baiting to outright bigotry and slurs. That alone probably shows the value in having these kinds of dedicated niche community sites.
Sometimes I describe this as "there's a cap on how good HN can ever get", but HN is just a placeholder there for any forum of comparable size.
https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
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Cultural Appropriation is super often misused (as it was in this case), but does describe a real thing. Just like how people complain that 'crypto' now only means cryptocurrency, or people complain that the new star wars movies 'killed their childhood' etc, having something that you have a strong connection to have its meaning distorted sucks. Imagine if seeing a holy cross, the first thing you thought of wasn't the…
It is; they're just tax exempt and have their own country.
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Interesting ... why can't I Vouch for this post?
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If you turn on "show dead", there's an unusually large and alarming number of dead replies on this ranging from fairly banal flame baiting to outright bigotry and slurs. That alone probably shows the value in having these kinds of dedicated niche community sites.
Unfortunately I think it's more a function of forum size than topic. I say 'unfortunately' because there's a nasty feedback loop of site-being-good -> site-getting-bigger -> site-attracting-badness -> site-getting-worse. Sometimes I describe this as "there's a cap on how good HN can ever get", but HN is just a placeholder there for any forum of comparable size. https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true…
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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.
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which is 100% fine.
Just keep PII out of government hands, while verifying users before showing them content.
While you get the NSFW toggling working. I would (for an over abundance of caution) turn off all content previews for non registered users.