As a basic timeline, in a megathread I asked @podking if the podcasts in the dump weren't vetted to include warnings for content not allowed on the site specifically transphobia, both hosts of the BAR pod are known transphobes and listed such on the transmap site listed as a resource on the transenby comm. They are transphobic, the podcast is transphobic, end of story with that. They responded and said "it’s lmaoooo apparently some of y’all need a trigger warning" and then I made a post in the transenby comm bringing this response to attention and people were not happy with their response, which resulted in the poddump thread being unpinned and locked.

I've noticed some users and some fresh accounts who probably just came here for the dump asking where it was. And it seems like @podking still has the ability to edit the locked post (or edited it shortly before it being locked, mods please let me know which) where they one included a link to what I assume is their site for the pod dump https://kingdex.xyz/feeds/ and also the navy seal copypasta which is weird wrecker behavior to do similar to their initial reply about the trigger warnings and some of their other since removed comments when confronted about it . I really think there's something not right about this. They're not banned (which they shouldn't be if they apologize to the trans community ), but still haven't apologized and are still sending script edits to the post ? @PorkrollPosadist @marxisthayaca if you have any more information about how the post is being edited / if podking reached out to you directly or something ...

If people are just gonna keep on complaining maybe it's best to pin something about it, include the link to his site and say we don't endorse it, idk (edit : https://hexbear.net/post/191681 there has been a temporary thread pinned that explains it so at least people will stop asking about it / can access the content)

  • nat_turner_overdrive [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    It solves the issue of possibly bigotry (I haven't read their comments), but the links are updated weekly with new (edit)weekly(edit) torrents. Banning the user ends that.

    • Ideology [she/her]
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      3 years ago

      Realized too late that I misunderstood your post. That is a pickle. But aren't most of the good podcasts out there available for free anyway?

      • nat_turner_overdrive [he/him]
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        3 years ago

        Yeah, but these roundups are for the patreon eps. There's plenty of podcasts in the weekly torrent that I consider garbage (glenn greenwald, krystal ball & saagar enjeti, jimmy dore, etc) but there's also some gold in there like trillbillies, boonta vista, doughboys, antifada, and so forth. The feeds link in the OP may be plenty, if it just gets tossed in a pinned c/podcasts post.

        • Ideology [she/her]
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          3 years ago

          I'm not much of a podcast fan. I prefer expropriating books from publishers myself. But imo, admitting that a reactionary has your comm by the balls sounds kind of pathetic and like a situation that needs to be fixed asap.

          • nat_turner_overdrive [he/him]
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            3 years ago

            I guess I don't really see how a free content tap has a semi-active comm by the balls, it's not like the guy mods the comm or even posts outside his thread. Not that I'm arguing against a ban or anything, the link to the index of all the feeds really accomplishes the task without the need for the user account.

            • Ideology [she/her]
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              3 years ago

              I guess I don’t really see how a free content tap has a semi-active comm by the balls,

              Because this thread even had to be made in the first place. Like, I get that this is a very minor thing that shouldn't be making this much of a stink. But the slowness to act exemplifies a deference to users who aggregate content even when they pose a security risk. It's similar to how irl groups allowing toxically masculine members to gain enough power often has led to sexual abuse or people going to jail for adventurism, despite those members appearing like good comrades initially. Imagine if people found out (hypothetically) SeventyTwoTrillion was actually secretly working against the community or held extremely reactionary views in private. They shouldn't be in a place where they're irreplacable and someone has to make a metapost to convince others to do something about it.

              • Abraxiel
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                3 years ago

                A security risk, really? It's just a reliable slop trough.

              • nat_turner_overdrive [he/him]
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                3 years ago

                I just checked the most recent torrent update by podking and they did indeed remove the podcast they were criticized for, "blocked and reported". It appears they did respond to the complaint.

            • HodgePodge [love/loves]
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              3 years ago

              Agreed that “muh content” is not a good reason to allow hateful things to be posted in the community. But I was speaking more to OP as a human and the project that they created to share with others. those like most of us that can’t afford to subscribe to a ton of diff content. They have put real work and hours into this. Audio and torrent files don’t aggregate themselves, let alone provide the infrastructure to kick start the sharing of the torrent (Broadband, hard drives, etc). It’s real work combined with a real difference of opinion. You can’t expect to community to be monolithic. All this being the case they augmented their operation for the good of the community. That copy pasta was never my favorite, but it has been used for years here as an ironic way of representing responses to threats to the human ego. It could just as easily self-directed and ironic as passively antagonistic. Poe’s law etc. It’s ungenerous in terms of reciprocity to what this user has put together for sharing to read the worst possible interpretation into it. Not enough evidence to use the word “reactionary” imo

              uhh