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

  • Dingdangdog [he/him,comrade/them]
    ·
    3 years ago

    Health anxiety sucks shit, and I swear I know where you're coming from. I've spent 4 years of the last decade dealing with repercussions of it. Hypochondria before we all were

    I have issues with posts that look to gain traction from those fears, BUT covid also does exist and I find it upsetting for a community to want to hide conversations about an extant threat

    The opt out while putting it in main is a fine compromise to me, and I'm not calling those that wish to opt out libs or whatever.

    What I was attempting to communicate was a general policy of removing scary things as a problematic decision.

    Edit: communicate autocorrected into communism lol