tilhton [they/them, she/her]@hexbear.net to traaaaaaannnnnnnnnns@hexbear.netEnglish · edit-212 days agocity specific fediverse sites / mastadon instances?message-squaremessage-square11fedilinkarrow-up119arrow-down10file-text
arrow-up119arrow-down1message-squarecity specific fediverse sites / mastadon instances?tilhton [they/them, she/her]@hexbear.net to traaaaaaannnnnnnnnns@hexbear.netEnglish · edit-212 days agomessage-square11fedilinkfile-text
minus-squarebuckykat [none/use name]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·15 days agoCity specific subreddits are the most part of why on earth would we want to replicate that in the fediverse?
minus-squarecomrade_pibb [comrade/them]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkarrow-up8·15 days agor/localcity be like: I’m as liberal as they come but we really need to start shooting the unhoused on sight
minus-squareSam [none/use name]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·15 days agoAlso any location specific is guaranteed to be at least 50% americans pretending they are from there.
minus-squarebuckykat [none/use name]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·15 days agoI am firmly convinced that joining a local subreddit is driven by the same basic impulse as joining an HOA board, or a fascist party, differentiated only in degree.
minus-squarespectre [he/him]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·edit-215 days agoThe impulse for us should be “drown out these fucking losers and appropriate the small community-focused institutions into something useful” Edit: oops not exactly my comm, didn’t see that
minus-squarePorkrollPosadist [he/him, they/them]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·edit-215 days agobecause you can actually ban the creeps and stop it from looking like Facebook.
minus-squareRedWizard [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·15 days ago I think its a good idea, if they’re explicitly left leaning.
minus-squaretilhton [they/them, she/her]@hexbear.netOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·15 days agodeleted by creator
City specific subreddits are the most
part of 
why on earth would we want to replicate that in the fediverse?
r/localcity be like: I’m as liberal as they come but we really need to start shooting the unhoused on sight
Also any location specific
is guaranteed to be at least 50% americans pretending they are from there.
I am firmly convinced that joining a local subreddit is driven by the same basic impulse as joining an HOA board, or a fascist party, differentiated only in degree.
The impulse for us should be “drown out these fucking losers and appropriate the small community-focused institutions into something useful”
Edit: oops not exactly my comm, didn’t see that
because you can actually ban the creeps and stop it from looking like Facebook.
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