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

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Post by numpad0 »

jart wrote: post #304
brimwats wrote: post #265

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yes, huge +1 to this OP, especially if you're American bc you are heading for a big collision with FOSTA-SESTA and other legal issues that could put you and your users at risk of harm.

Someone should set up a website with nothing but LLM generated content, to troll these officials.

GP mentioned NCMEC, those guys don't care if it's generated or not. Anything aligns their preference gets labeled as "nonconsensual child pornography" and they come after your hosting, DNS, payment, visas, so on. Consensus or IRL children aren't their concerns.

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

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Post by numpad0 »

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 changes behavior depending on signup path, and is also aggressive with admin deletions, but hides acts well. It's in perception only that Reddit still has everything dirty in the open.

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Post by defrost »

moi2388 wrote: post #368
defrost wrote: post #264

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> And I (rightfully) view congregations of transgender women mostly as a (white)-male dominated place. You need to get out in the world more, that's a very limited locale specific PoV.

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/336597435/figure/fi... 68% seems 'mostly'. As does this map: https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/trans-pop... /ˈməʊs(t)li/ adverb as regards the greater part or number.

You need to get out in the world more and experience reality outside of the US and US centric 'world' maps.

The "worldpopulationreview" data has shortcomings. An obvious (for any with a background in data collection) reporting bias for one ..

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

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Post by mmooss »

wizzwizz4 wrote: post #369
mmooss wrote: post #356

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Thanks. Not to dive too far into the weeds ... but I'm wondering if there's something I misunderstand about Popper: > If your theory is capable of "explaining" every possible piece of evidence, it's not a scientific theory. Do you mean, if your theory is not falsifiable? If your falsifiable theory is not (yet) falsified, if you magically know it never will be falsified, isn't it still a theory? (If it's just a matter…

I've misused the word "possible": I meant to say that if the theory is equally-capable of "explaining" two mutually-incompatible states of affairs, it does not actually have the explanatory power that all scientific theories must have. Which, yes, I think "falsifiable" is the correct word for that. (Although, you'll note that my explanation of "falsifiable" is not precisely correct. I think I've convinced myself that…

I am not advocating for Blanchard in any way, in case I'm giving that impression, just talking about Popper in general.

Thought experiments, unless something provable like mathematics, are worse than useless, they are deceiving. There is an evil demon that deceives us, that we cannot overcome.

The only source of knowledge is to go out and ask, 'what do you mean?' Thanks for answering!

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

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Post by DiggyJohnson »

t4t wrote: post #10

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…

Unfiltered twitter is significantly less NSFW, just as a point of feedback. Good luck with you project tho

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

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Post by wizzwizz4 »

mmooss wrote: post #374
wizzwizz4 wrote: post #369

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I've misused the word "possible": I meant to say that if the theory is equally-capable of "explaining" two mutually-incompatible states of affairs, it does not actually have the explanatory power that all scientific theories must have. Which, yes, I think "falsifiable" is the correct word for that. (Although, you'll note that my explanation of "falsifiable" is not precisely correct. I think I've convinced myself that…

I am not advocating for Blanchard in any way, in case I'm giving that impression, just talking about Popper in general. Thought experiments, unless something provable like mathematics, are worse than useless, they are deceiving. There is an evil demon that deceives us, that we cannot overcome. The only source of knowledge is to go out and ask, 'what do you mean?' Thanks for answering!

You're not giving that impression, but your criticism was warranted. (I don't understand falsification as well as I thought I did.)

I wouldn't quite say that thought experiments are always deceiving (Albert Einstein found them quite useful, for example), but they are very parodiable. https://existentialcomics.com/comic/183

> "Did he just… not see any of us?" "Rationalists are terrible at seeing stuff. He probably just tried to deduce who was here from reason alone."

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

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Post by mmooss »

wizzwizz4 wrote: post #376
mmooss wrote: post #374

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I am not advocating for Blanchard in any way, in case I'm giving that impression, just talking about Popper in general. Thought experiments, unless something provable like mathematics, are worse than useless, they are deceiving. There is an evil demon that deceives us, that we cannot overcome. The only source of knowledge is to go out and ask, 'what do you mean?' Thanks for answering!

You're not giving that impression, but your criticism was warranted. (I don't understand falsification as well as I thought I did.) I wouldn't quite say that thought experiments are always deceiving (Albert Einstein found them quite useful, for example), but they are very parodiable. https://existentialcomics.com/comic/183 > "Did he just… not see any of us?" "Rationalists are terrible at seeing stuff. He probably jus…

> criticism

Really, purely curiosity. At first, one thing I was wondering was if some new theory might have caught hold in some corner of academia, for example. Then I wondered if I misunderstood falsification myself.

> Einstein found them quite useful, for example

He is why I made the exception for math. His 'experiment' used math (exclusively?) - and wasn't relied upon until confirmed empirically.

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

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Post by mmooss »

matthewdgreen wrote: post #326
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…

You can use cryptography to perform parts of verification. Specifically, you can use anonymous credentials to prove to a specific website that you have a credential. But that credential must then be issued by some authority that actually examines your physical "proof of age" (driver's license etc.) and issues it to your device. The problem is that, at least at the moment, simply obtaining a credential like this has a…

> "a person who is specifically interested in accessing adult content."

Or at more risk, a person interested in trans content.

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

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Post by mmooss »

southernplaces7 wrote: post #282
chimeracoder wrote: post #142

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> 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 di…

Are there many and do they have any influence? I haven't heard anything from such groups. Have they gotten any laws passed, like the age verification laws the other groups have succeeded in passing in several states?

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

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Post by dutchbookmaker »

As a super straight CIS guy who worships Wendy Carlos and Selofan, I wish I could join too. I am sure ya'll talk about the coolest things.

It just makes me sad how before the internet there really were not these barriers. The "freaks" of society all got together around art, music, fashion in an apolitical way.

This ultimately is the opposite of "inclusive" but I get why. It still makes me sad.

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