25mm square tubing for scale.

  • tiny_mouse@lemmy.ml
    5·
    3 months ago

    Beautiful. I don’t know much about spiders, but it looks pretty large even for a rain spider. So I’d guess it’s a female.

    • remon@ani.socialM
      6·
      3 months ago

      Huntsman are one of the spiders that exhibit very little sexual dimorphism, so size isn’t a good indicter for sexing them.

    • remon@ani.socialM
      7·
      3 months ago

      I’m very much against this. The main goal of this community is to educate people about spiders. Posts with NSFW tags have considerable less reach (I myself filter them quite often), so that would be very counter productive towards that.

      The server rules also do not require this (and if they would, I’d move the community).

      I’m sympathetic for people with arachnophobia, but we can’t censor everything that some people might be afraid of. They are just pictures of animals.

      • AnarchistArtificer@slrpnk.netEnglish
        3·
        3 months ago

        Speaking as an arachnophobe who is about to filter this community’s posts from my feed, I strongly agree. Like you say, NSFW tags would make things muddier in terms of how different filtering mechanics interact. It wasn’t pleasant to see a big ole spider in my feed like this, but it’s trivially easy for me to opt out. It is much harder for people who like spiders to find spaces where they can enthusiastically opt in to hanging out with other spider nerds.

      • AnarchistArtificer@slrpnk.netEnglish
        2·
        3 months ago

        I’m someone who is just about to block this community because I’m not great with spiders, but I absolutely think you shouldn’t do NSFW tags. This was unpleasant for me to see, but I have the ability to trivially opt out of seeing this stuff. People who like spiders are weirdly marginalised, so it’s important for y’all to have a space to just nerd out.

        A’ight, I’mma head out. I’m sad that I can’t hang out with you delightful nerds, because I am also someone who enjoys learning deeply about stuff, and I find spiders to be objectively beautiful and awesome. Unfortunately, my subjective response is quite different.