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I’m new here. Where can I post SWERFy screenshots? (hexbear.net)

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Hi friends, I’m a sex worker and a leftist. I’m brand new to this community. Sex workers are really taking it from all sides right now (no pun intended!) and due to Melon Husk’s hateful algorithm, there’s yet another viral “leftist” take that is essentially “prostitution bad” from some walnut who has never sold hole in her life. Meanwhile I, an actual prostitute, can barely get 200 views on my damn posts about my own goddamn experience. I would love to post it and scream into the internet abyss but I’m not sure if there is an appropriate place to do that now due to recent changes to the site. Is there a community here where this content is acceptable? I don’t really want to drag/dunk on the person who posted it in particular as there is a different random jackass posting the same take pretty much every day.

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 days ago (1 children)

hell of a time to join the site lmao, welcome kirby-wave

if it's not a dunk and more about posting your experience, you should be fine in the main community as long as there's a NSFW tag and any needed content warnings, usually formatted like "Post Title [CW: warning, other warning]"

c/chapotraphouse is the main and generic community

we also have a c/main community but it's kinda an inside joke about people complaining about the main community not being named main

if you do end up dunking currently the communities for that are c/gossip for famous people dunking, and c/counterpropaganda for not famous people dunking, the sidebar rule about having to refute the post in counterpropaganda is currently being waivered as the mods work out the new "heckle at bad fuckin takes" comm

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Thank you this is helpful. Is there a list of common content warning labels used here? Do people block/ban certain CW keywords so they don’t see those posts, or do they just look at the post title and not click the post if they don’t want to see that type of content?

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 days ago (1 children)

The latter. As long you tag your stuff appropriately I don’t think you’ll see a problem.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Thank you!

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 days ago

Speaking of formatting, if you see a comment with interesting formatting and want to know how they did it, you can click the "view source" button at the bottom of the comment

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 days ago (1 children)

i don't think there's a list, ones i've seen:

content warnings

any sort of bigotry, sexism, racism, ableism, queerphobia or any other -phobia, slurs, SA or sexual violence, abuse, child abuse, domestic abuse, death, suicide/suicidal ideation, self-harm, mental health, animal cruelty, and meat usually if it's in the post's picture, i've seen a cw: disturbing too

i think it's more the latter where people don't click/expand the post if they don't want to see the content

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 days ago

Thank you!