As I said before this is an unsafe site for Indigenous people. I’m out. Don’t bother DMing me. I’m scrambling my password and locking myself out of my own account. I’ve grown to care for and trust a lot of you so it’s hard to leave but it is clear that this site isn’t for me. I understand that the world and internet at large is really shitty to vegans so I understand and support the need for a safe space to process your experiences and to practice your dunks. All the best, signing off.

Reposted here since it is invisible where I first posted it. https://hexbear.net/post/94432

  • Awoo [she/her]
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    4 years ago

    Ok so I'm not a regular poster in this comm so feel free to tell me to fuck off... But I think that the site as a whole needs to build a culture around different communities being... Different spaces.

    If we don't do this, if we continue to demand that everywhere on the entire site understand the differences of every single other community, marginalised or not, everyone will leave the site.

    What I mean to say is that some of the comms are going to be imperfect and a site culture that accepts that some comms are not going to be spaces that literally everyone will like is ok. I think it's important in fact. I think it's ok to say to yourself "I really don't like the vegan comm".

    The expectation that we manage to achieve complete and total sitewide perfect will kill the entire site. Some shit is always going to go down in some spaces, between people not all being educated and between people having shit days with poorly thought-through outbursts, there will always be something. Without learning how to handle and deal with this we'll be in trouble.

    Right now the expectation that every single comm is run the same way and should conform to the same social standards is hurting the site's longterm future.

        • Awoo [she/her]
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          4 years ago

          Eliminating main won't resolve it while every single comm looks the same and can't be identified as being a different part of the site at a glance. People will behave the same way everywhere and expect the same behaviour everywhere as long as they feel like they're in the same place.

          Psychologically people need to feel like they're in a different space.

      • Awoo [she/her]
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        4 years ago

        I think it's more to do with the lack of personality that any comm has. All comms appear the same, there's no header images, no sidebar images. This makes it quite difficult to even tell you're in a different comm and therefore you don't even notice. Because of this people never adjust attitudes or behaviour between comms, it creates a sitewide homogeny.

        When this is addressed I expect individual communities to take on more of their own individual personalities.

      • Awoo [she/her]
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        4 years ago

        This is true but also something necessary until the site grows imo. There aren't enough users solely here for specific comms to keep them alive.