Hello,

Today the !covid@hexbear.net and !doomer@hexbear.net communities were created.

As of now they are not set to appear in the /all feed so in order to see posts here you have to subscribe.

They do appear in the /all feed and will require users not wanting to see these posts to ensure they subscribe to all communities they do want to see and then change their feed to subscribed only in their settings

Please post !covid@hexbear.net or !doomer@hexbear.net appropriate posts in their respective communities.

Going forward covid/doomer posts that are not in those communities may be crossposted there & removed.

Posts that are without a content warning and/or are titled in a sensational/excessive/clickbait way will be crossposted to one of these communities & removed from the community it was originally posted in, consider using the sourced article headline with a content warning to avoid having this occur.

I know this is an inconvenience and posts restricted to those communities may not get as much engagement but for now this change is intended to help.

If you see a post in another community that may be more appropriate for !covid@hexbear.net or !doomer@hexbear.net please report them.

This post intends to discuss this change so please comment any questions, comments, or concerns regarding this. Thank you

This change is a result of user concerns raised in: https://hexbear.net/post/166749
https://hexbear.net/post/166985

  • Abraxiel
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    3 years ago

    Does Psaki being snarky about how they're going to continue to do nothing about Covid go in c/covid or not?

    I agree with CCA that they should appear in /all. It's inconvenient for people who want to filter out those posts to have to manually subscribe to everything else and sort by subscribed, but that's more realistic than every user that doesn't want them filtered to manually subscribe. Critically, because it won't be obvious that you need to do that if you don't read this thread.

      • Abraxiel
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        3 years ago

        Now does my example not go in c/news or c/videos? That's what I think will be tricky, since users will still absolutely be posting the particularly choice examples of incompetence wherever it fits.

        I don't think people usually read the copypasta block in megathreads. I know I haven't in months. I'd like to hear from people who don't want to see the posts in question and what their thoughts on defaults are.

          • Abraxiel
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            3 years ago

            Word up. Hope nothing comes across as bellicose, just trying to be straightforward.

          • Anarchist [they/them]
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            3 years ago

            Could you please rephrase the title of this post then to clarify it's a community discussion? Appreciate all of you being open to feedback.