idk, I just know that the old instance already have problems with power users and reifying that will make the problem worse.
idk, I just know that the old instance already have problems with power users and reifying that will make the problem worse.
I think this was always an intended feature (I’ve certainly been hearing about it for years as something people want/devs want to add), in addition to a user tagging system (i.e. users adding tags to their own usernames (e.g. pronoun tags). the main difference, though, was that it was something the poster or mods/admins could add and not something for the userbase at large to vote on. I think making it a voting system allows abuse. like consider a large group of transphobes adding tags to posts in trans comms, for instance.
a trusted user system is it’s own can of worms.
no, we don’t have downvotes on hexbear and this is what they looked like when we did. it means bad post.
nah, it was a politically conscious choice to set up something like reddit, outside the control of capital and the state. the devs have written about it.
nah, they’re just good at posting. up your game.
unfortunately other data is not encouraging , the number of servers is both down since the exodus and in the recent month.
this is normal. we’ll go through a lot of similar waves. people start servers, realize they’re a lot of work, and then abandon them. servers that foster a healthy community will survive. hexbear’s worst cycle involved losing the entire administrative team just weeks after a large percentage of the website left. don’t sweat the growing pains - work together to learn, grow, and change.
lol the US security apparatus is bad but it’s not that bad. you might get put on a watchlist though.
how can privacy ever be stripped of political content? it’s inherently about social forces - ie politics.
wait, no, this is how everyone does math. right? …right?