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Show HN: I built an active community of trans people online
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#282Earlier quoted context omitted.
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…
> 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. Yes, and that is exactly why Morality in Media (the right-wing, evangelical group behind these laws) has been proposing them. Their goal is to outlaw pornography (and other "immoral" content) on the internet by making it so diffi…
>Yes, and that is exactly why Morality in Media (the right-wing, evangelical group behind these laws)
Sure, they're major culprits but let's not let the left get off the hook entirely on promoting moralizing censorship of porn too. There are segments of it, especially those in certain feminist camps that hate pornography with a victorian near-evangelical level of scorn and they have a loud voice of their own under different flags and reasoning.
Re: Show HN: I built an active community of trans people online
#283> NSFW should be opt-in, not default.
> How do people report offensive, doxing and unsafe content? Do you have moderators, and can they scale if it comes lot more popular?
> Why not also people to browse the web version? It can be a lot easier for accessibility. I sometimes need a bigger font than what the default is. Adjusting it on the mobile is ok but the screen is tiny so there is all manner of scrolling in all directions to read the content.
Re: Show HN: I built an active community of trans people online
#284I 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?
This is exactly what I thought about when I first read the post. This is not a good idea in my opinion.
How is it a bad idea? A community for trans people that's actively used by them because it works for their needs should be considered a bad idea because certain assholes can attack it? The bad there is in the assholes and effort is due in stopping them, not the existence for a specific type of useful community itself.
Re: Show HN: I built an active community of trans people online
#285I wish I could do the same for people with depression
Make a Mastodon instance.
Re: Show HN: I built an active community of trans people online
#286Earlier quoted context omitted.
This is exactly what I thought about when I first read the post. This is not a good idea in my opinion.
How is it a bad idea? A community for trans people that's actively used by them because it works for their needs should be considered a bad idea because certain assholes can attack it? The bad there is in the assholes and effort is due in stopping them, not the existence for a specific type of useful community itself.
It's bad if the attack involves, say, doxing the users (who may not desire this or be in a place where it is safe fort this to happen).
Re: Show HN: I built an active community of trans people online
#287Earlier 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?
yes, this is exactly what open source "app stores" like f-droid do: reproducible builds. Also it is pretty trivial to compile it yourself to confirm.
Doesn't matter if the app is just an interface to a web server.
Re: Show HN: I built an active community of trans people online
#288The 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 gets very thorough scrutiny from the App Store review team. They have policies on it.
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#289Mobile 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.
Many people here do not view providing source code as "completely giving it away".
Re: Show HN: I built an active community of trans people online
#290Last year I managed to connect with 10 other trans people in my Lancashire home town. This is a place with zero 'alternative' spaces, let alone dedicated queer spaces. I made a poster using the trans pride flag as the background, and wrote a bit of blurb on it and put an email address on. Then I stuck it up on community notice boards in supermarkets and in a pub window. My idea was that if you put these things in high footfall areas, someone is bound to walk past and get in touch. And they did! Plus, more pride flags being visible, especially if they are coming from the grassroots and not a giant company, shows that we are here and not alone, and makes us feel safer. So if you want to connect with people near you, maybe go analog and put up some posters ^__^