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

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Post by DonHopkins »

achierius wrote: post #178
dang wrote: post #175

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

Are you actually the only mod? I'm shocked at how you seem to show up in every other thread, even cases like this where you're replying to a comment that itself was probably not flagged (and thus put on your queue).

He's an interdimensional being who exists outside of time, like Palmer Eldritch.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Three_Stigmata_of_Palmer_E...

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

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Post by squigz »

FrustratedMonky wrote: post #169

Not sure if mentioned. But add some encryption, and some way to identify bad actors. With the recent executive orders, it might become dangerous to be trans. Yes, it has always been dangerous. But now more like 'the purge' type dangerous with roving gangs with dogs chasing trans people through the country side. I'd think trans people would be in 'hide' mode. Generally, I wonder if anybody not a maga brown shirt, is i…

> But now more like 'the purge' type dangerous with roving gangs with dogs chasing trans people through the country side.

Do you honestly believe anything like this is going to happen?

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

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Post by dgfitz »

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”.

This is 100% the correct answer. It’s unfortunate nsfw was framed as a political question.

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

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Post by Hikikomori »

squigz wrote: post #182
FrustratedMonky wrote: post #169

Not sure if mentioned. But add some encryption, and some way to identify bad actors. With the recent executive orders, it might become dangerous to be trans. Yes, it has always been dangerous. But now more like 'the purge' type dangerous with roving gangs with dogs chasing trans people through the country side. I'd think trans people would be in 'hide' mode. Generally, I wonder if anybody not a maga brown shirt, is i…

> But now more like 'the purge' type dangerous with roving gangs with dogs chasing trans people through the country side. Do you honestly believe anything like this is going to happen?

They used to do it with black people, still do it but used to too.

Probably not roving gangs but targeted attacks, which have happened. The current political climate and people in charge are going to get plenty of people dead.

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

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Post by cperciva »

I am very concerned about this being a target for malicious actors. I'd offer to help you with security but I've never even heard of some of your stack so I'm probably not in a position to help.

Is there anyone here who is familiar with OP's stack and has security experience?

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

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Post by raincole »

raincole wrote: post #58
segasaturn wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm glad that you're making it a toggle and not banning it outright. This is my biggest gripe with BlueSky at the moment.

Isn't BlueSky doing the exact thing you want: making it a toggle?

By the way this isn't a snarky rhetorical question. I wonder whether people do experience censorship more than the built-in preference filters on BlueSky.

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

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Post by FrustratedMonky »

squigz wrote: post #182
FrustratedMonky wrote: post #169

Not sure if mentioned. But add some encryption, and some way to identify bad actors. With the recent executive orders, it might become dangerous to be trans. Yes, it has always been dangerous. But now more like 'the purge' type dangerous with roving gangs with dogs chasing trans people through the country side. I'd think trans people would be in 'hide' mode. Generally, I wonder if anybody not a maga brown shirt, is i…

> But now more like 'the purge' type dangerous with roving gangs with dogs chasing trans people through the country side. Do you honestly believe anything like this is going to happen?

Yes.

They are already being fired.

They are told they don't exist.

(imagine telling a redhead that they are fake and then firing them).

Changing how they dress in order to hide.

They were singled out as a group to isolate and torment by the ruling government.

How many steps do you need to see a trajectory.

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

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Post by fourside »

01HNNWZ0MV43FF wrote: post #86

Mobile app only and no source code? I appreciate the effort but I'll stick with Mastodon for now.

> no source code?

The way that some people on HN so casually demand someone to build something and then completely give it away never ceases to disappoint. Thankfully the fact that this community is growing tells me this is not how most people think.

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

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Post by groby_b »

mmooss wrote: post #152
groby_b wrote: post #127

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> "Cultural appropriation" is a fancy way to say "I only want to learn from people just like me". Cultural appropriation is learning about things only from people like you, not from the people outside your culture who created it and who may have jarring perspectives and expressions of them. For example - just something I recently saw - lots of 1950s-60s rock musicians like Elvis and the Rolling Stones appropriated mu…

"To be fair, the RS apparently often toured with some of the original musicians as opening acts"

What more would you like? These notes have been played this way before, therefor no other group will ever play them again?

Yes, the exploitation of other (especially minority) cultures is an issue. And that's very much not how "cultural appropriation" is used any more - it's very specifically used as "this belongs to that other group, nobody else can have it". And thus precludes any learning.

It is, in its common use, asking for fully siloed cultures. I don't think humanity benefits from those siloes.

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

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Post by azeirah »

xrd wrote: post #4

As someone who isn't familiar with the norms of this community, the first few posts were somewhat surprising. I mean to say, they were overtly sexual and public. I have many trans friends and gay friends so I'm not saying I've never heard terminology like that, but it was usually in a closed conversation. I wonder if those are spam comments? It would be interesting to hear how you plan to guard against people who wil…

As a little bit of context, a lot of trans people (rightfully) view HN as a (white)-male dominated place, and feel misunderstood and misheard by the people here. A common defense tactic is to become _more_ sexually overt and grotesque than they actually are in reality.

A lot of the other thirstposting is, from my experience, very much genuine and heartfelt.

The trans community is often quite open.

I'm personally transgender, monogamous and mostly lesbian, so I'm a bit of a "boring" outlier when it comes to the poly & kink communities. But I spend a LOT of time in trans spaces. Online and offline. Professionally and casually. Younger and older. Political and friendly.

Etc

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