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

  • congressbaseballfan [she/her]
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    3 years ago

    How about just content warning or removing content with doomer titles? Save it for the comments? On the “we’re all gonna die” post just remove and say submit with headline or diffeeent title

      • congressbaseballfan [she/her]
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        3 years ago

        Yeah, I think just removing excessive titles would do the trick tbh.

        I think a doomer comm is fine, but I don’t think covid stuff should be…. quarantined :kelly:

        Someone who doesn’t want to doom binge can just scroll past it, but I think a title like “new variant just dropped” is ok because even if you’re trying to avoid covid posting you’d probably want to know about that. Idk

      • Woly [any]
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        3 years ago

        I also agree with this, I'd rather people use content warnings and censor titles than not be allowed to post stuff where they want.

      • Anarchist [they/them]
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        3 years ago

        Seconding this. Climate apocalypse and collapse stuff makes sense for doomer I guess.