🦊 OneRedFox 🦊

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Cake day: June 9th, 2023

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  • The questions should be fine for most people so long as they don’t go overboard with it. 2-3 should work. Select interests from a list (and have an option to fill some in), select moderation preferences from a list, and select a language/region from a list. There could even be a button that just selects an instance randomly for people who can’t be bothered (this can use the browser language to avoid sending people to instances in languages that they don’t speak).


  • I’ve had a similar idea before for the join sites where they asks users a few questions about their interests/preferences and then redirect them to an instance based on that information. And when they sign up, it could also automatically subscribe them to the relevant hashtags/communities. Instance admins could be prompted when setting up the software if they want the site to send users to their instance (and how many they’re willing to take); this could work like a firehose distribution system to help avoid overwhelming infrastructure during exodus waves.








  • Eh, they just posted (and then immediately reposted after it was removed) a mildly antagonistic comment. Like I said, the user in question seems like they want a comm that serves a different purpose than what we’re going for, then they came back next day in a separate thread to continue derailing/arguing about it instead of just making peace with the fact that the comm isn’t going to be what they want and looking elsewhere. It’s just annoying gray area behavior that’s taking focus away from the actual content. I would heavily encourage users not to do stuff like that. I don’t think that it makes for a good experience to click on an interesting thread expecting discussion/jokes/memes relevant to the topic and all the comments are just that shit instead.




  • Honestly, the fashion industry in general is one of the more blatant examples of the shallow, conspicuous consumer culture that capitalism fosters. It encourages people to define themselves by the products that they buy and is often used to signal social status. People pay top dollar to get brand name products (which of course usually has the brand logo plastered on it): literally paying money to advertise a company’s product for them. I’ve also been told before that clothing is a massive pain in the ass to produce, so fast fashion having serious ethical problems would not be surprising.