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

  • SerLava [he/him]
    ·
    3 years ago

    I agree with the idea of making new "quarantine" (no pun intended) communities opt-out instead of opt-in, by auto subscribing users to them. I don't have a strong opinion or anything but I think it's better.

    For this reason:

    I think if all the Covid posts are suddenly coming from /c/COVID, people who want to avoid that will be like "oh, the fuck is c/Covid? I am unsubscribing from that cursed shit" at a pretty reliable rate. And on the other hand, it'll be hard to get people to see this post, and they'll suddenly have Covid posts sorta disappear without realizing it.

    I for one will be using this excellent new functionality by unsubscribing from Doomer but not Covid.