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

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Post by def13 »

Not a huge fan of lack of control over location in profile. I understand wanting location to show local posts much like lex, but right now all I can disable on my profile is "showing neighbourhood".

The app grabs three locales of differing specificity, which I guess you think is Neighbourhood -> City -> Country. However what it has fetched as my Neighbourhood is my "Ward" which is a suburb subdivision in Australia that is never used for anything except for voting in local council elections. This is a truly overly specific location, 80% of people will have no idea what their ward is until they look at their voting paper for the council elections. The next most specific locale "City" is my suburb, which is also a relatively small location which I'm not comfortable sharing online. If it grabbed my metro city (i.e. Melbourne) I'd be happy to display that. Overall though, I think this should be an editable field so that people can share as comfortable. I'm fine that the app needs my location but why does that need to be displayed to other users?

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

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Post by fwip »

computerthings wrote: post #361
pseudalopex wrote: post #359

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> I just disagree that cis men say stuff amongst themselves they wouldn't around women, while homosexual or bisexual men would never do that. Nothing they said implied the 2nd part even slightly. And not because most homosexual and bisexual men are cis.

Same difference. What makes non-cis men special that they required specific exclusion from that sentence?

Sorry for any confusion - the parenthetical (cis) was meant to narrow my statement according to my specific first-hand experiences, not to imply that trans men don't do it. I can see how my wording implied that, though.

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

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Post by m00x »

dbmnt wrote: post #384
m00x wrote: post #268

Earlier quoted context omitted.

LLCs won't protect you completely. That's a myth.

Parent didn't say anything about complete protection? An LLC does offer some level of protection, albeit mostly liability protection (as implied by the name, Limited Liability Company), and in this case I would be more worried about the need to defend against overzealous law enforcement requests. I'm not sure an LLC really helps much in that context. It's more about being able to afford a good legal team.

For what they're referring to, there is no personal protection. You can be personally liable for neglecting to protect against illegal sexual content even through an LLC.

This is what keeps most people from hosting user content. It's very easy to do, but it opens you to massive personal liabilities.

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

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Post by itake »

ETH_start wrote: post #398
itake wrote: post #392

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Society pays the consequences either directly from government or the impact the kids have on everyone else that has to live with adults that discovered porn as a kid before they could understand it. Kids that discovered porn at an early age will not understand how to process it properly and this will impact their relationships in the future. It is their future partners that suffer along with the kids and family.

If that's really the case, the only person who should be punished is the parent. Everyone else should not be punished with a more restricted society.

How do you punish the parent without punishing the kid? Throw the single mom in jail? fine her? take the kid away?

If the kid is living with single-income grandma, b/c parents passed. Do we throw grandma in jail for not blocking the content properly?

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

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Post by t4t »

nyanpasu64 wrote: post #309
t4t wrote: post #244

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The source is actually freely available for both the app and the web: https://gitea.com/t4t

Took a quick look through the sources (I'm aware they're not officially intended for local builds) but haven't found anything interesting (yet). First impressions: - The API keys are obtained using flutter_dotenv, and omitted from the Git source but trivially extractable from the Play Store APK (using a rooted phone). - After installing the .env file and building t4t locally, I was unable to log into the Android app…

These are all public keys so I am not too worried, but I appreciate the heads up. I will make more effort to obfuscate them.

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

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Post by fennecbutt »

fatata123 wrote: post #229
azeirah wrote: post #190

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 tran…

There’s a fine line between ‘open’ and ‘perverted’.

That line is shared with the one of "none of your business"

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

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Post by fennecbutt »

azeirah wrote: post #190
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 tran…

Idt it's defensive, at least not for my trans friends. I'm a gay dude and I think it's just that the queer community is a lot more open about that stuff in general, which contrasts greatly with straight people, especially Americans.

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

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Post by fennecbutt »

JasserInicide wrote: post #206
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…

The trans community doesn't want to admit it but they very much identify themselves by their sexuality/orientation which is very weird to outsiders

About as weird as identifying yourself by which variant of sport you watch, I guess.

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

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Post by fennecbutt »

asdf6969 wrote: post #21

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

Grindr got bought by str8 tech Bros and is now heavily profit driven.

Plus as a gay dude I don't even really use it bc it's just a vain wall of abs and conversations about the most inane meaningless things on there.

There aren't even really that many actual geeks in the "geek" tribe. Just pretty dudes who think they're a geek bc they play fifa on their xbox.

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

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Post by bun_terminator »

dang wrote: post #170
bun_terminator wrote: post #32

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Regardless of your views on social issues, you can't post like this here. Since we've warned you before and you've continued to break the guidelines, I've banned the account. If you don't want to be banned on HN, you're welcome to email hn@ycombinator.com and give us reason to believe that you'll follow the rules in the future. They're here: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html .

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