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

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Post by beeflet »

thrance wrote: post #221
kenjackson wrote: post #218

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Real question : how do you verify that the source code matches the code of the service you’re using? Is there some service that builds and hosts and you can verify what it builds against the hosted location?

You can only ever really ensure the client you use wasn't tampererd with, by carefully reading all of its source code and then building it yourself. For every update. Realistically, you will always need a minimum amount of trust, just don't misplace it.

The minimum amount of trust is clearly a lot less for open source software because anyone can view the source and whistleblow vulnerabilities (and many will regularly do so to contribute or modify it anyways).

Also, compiling and verifying software updates is pretty easy for typical application programs. I do it for cryptocurrency software, you just look over diffs and make sure it matches up to the changelog.

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Post by honestSysAdmin »

jancsika wrote: post #174
KomoD wrote: post #6

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?

> Looks more like a community of horny people and other weird stuff. 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? :)

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

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Post by t4t »

alicesmemories wrote: post #150

it looks really slick but the timeline scrolling is a little heavy. also fwiw no way to filter location for posts without sharing your own...

I am curious if you mean heavy in terms of the physics of the swipe, or heavy in terms of something like the layout?

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

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Post by ETH_start »

hn_throwaway_99 wrote: post #134
mmooss wrote: post #128

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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 inve…

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…

It's 100% bullshit. The parents themselves are responsible for letting their children browse the internet unsupervised.

The culture of over-reaction to danger that has taken over the political domain is creating a nanny state where it's impossible to avoid crosssing red lines and doing something wrong. It's paralyzing society by instilling inaction as the only safe path.

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

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Post by mmooss »

groby_b wrote: post #189
mmooss wrote: post #152

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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…

For people who are really interested: A big part of the problem is that the black blues musicians were excluded - they were kept out of the mainstream, which created opportunity for people like the RS to cash in on the black artists' music.

For example, imagine if today people of East and South Asian descent were excluded from SV. Then white developers stole their ideas and code, changed a few things and put their own name on it, and cashed in.

Art has many more cultural consequences than for-profit software, of course.

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

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Post by chocolatemario »

slutd wrote: post #143

people are criticizing the minimal text interface, but i really appreciate it. it's very nice in w3m, a tui browser. but spacing between each post (none), and among posts and their metadata (one line) needs some tuning, because it clusters each timestamp footer with the user header for the next post. i would suggest avoiding ` ` for feed items and use more general-purpose elements. is there a reason you're not simply…

Mastodon isn’t particularly good for monetization.

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

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Post by intended »

t4t wrote: post #30
asdf6969 wrote: post #21

What’s wrong with Grindr, the biggest app for queer and trans people to meet?

I think the main complaints overall with apps like Grindr, Lex et al comes in a few parts: 1) Mainstream dating apps are full of very profit driven patterns, and feel manipulative and corporate. A fair followup would be why would t4t not eventually become like this? I think probably the main differentiator is that t4t is written to run extremely cheap, and my goals for it are mostly just for it to support me financia…

You are going to need content moderation, and you are going to need it quick as you scale.

This is the one thing that doesn’t scale. There’s a bunch of T&S advice and best practices out there.

Get a press kit ready. Be clear on what is and isn’t allowed.

In the EU, you would need to be able to provide access to appeals if you cross a certain size (VLOPs).

I mention this because you are a 1 person team.

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

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Post by dang »

PaulHoule wrote: post #83
groby_b wrote: post #68

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"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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"Eschew flamebait. Avoid generic tangents."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

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

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Post by intended »

fkyoureadthedoc wrote: post #124
jl6 wrote: post #121

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.

Reddit has absolutely massive amounts of free moderation being done every day, and users are constantly being split into smaller groups to handle scale and nuance.

The admin team sits on top of that. And they have access to NCMEC along with full fledged data science teams.

Reddit is VC funded.

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