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

  • mr_world [they/them]
    ·
    2 years ago

    It's really a problem of definitions isn't it? Some people consider any bad news to be doomer. Doomerism is supposed to just be defeatism. Everything is bad, will always be bad, and there's nothing you can do about it. Pointing out how the government is killing people is not doomer. It's only doomer if you suggest that there is no use in organizing/fighting against it. Yet there is another subtle difference because pointing out the individual's powerlessness against the state is also not doomer, but treating it as eternal is.

    Some people just want to stop seeing bad news and that's fine but labeling bad news as doomerism isn't useful. You're just lumping everything from "covid cases reach record high" to "we're all going to die before the revolution so let's just give up" under one category.

    Yes, we can put all covid news in a comm that way people can unsubscribe from it and not see covid news. But trying to pin down something nebulous like doomerism to one com just seems impractical.