We ask community members to appreciate the uncertainty inherent in critical analysis of current events, the need to constantly learn, and take part in the community with humility. None of us are the One True Leftist, not even you, the reader.
-
Link titles: Please use informative link titles. Overly editorialized titles, particularly if they link to opinion pieces, may get your post removed.
-
Content warnings: Posts on the newscomm and top-level replies on the newsmega should use content warnings appropriately. Please be thoughtful about wording and triggers when describing awful things in post titles.
-
Fake news: No fake news posts ever, including April 1st. Deliberate fake news posting is a bannable offense. If you mistakenly post fake news the mod team may ask you to delete/modify the post or we may delete it ourselves.
-
Link sources: All posts must include a link to their source. Screenshots are fine IF you include the link in the post body. If you are citing a Twitter post as news, please include the Xcancel.com (or another Nitter instance) or at least strip out identifier information from the twitter link. There is also a Firefox extension that can redirect Twitter links to a Nitter instance, such as Libredirect or archive them as you would any other reactionary source.
-
Archive sites: We highly encourage use of non-paywalled archive sites (i.e. archive.is, web.archive.org, ghostarchive.org) so that links are widely accessible to the community and so that reactionary sources don’t derive data/ad revenue from Hexbear users. If you see a link without an archive link, please archive it yourself and add it to the thread, ask the OP to fix it, or report to mods. Including text of articles in threads is welcome.
-
Low effort material: Avoid memes/jokes/shitposts in newscomm posts and top-level replies to the newsmega. This kind of content is OK in post replies and in newsmega sub-threads. We encourage the community to balance their contribution of low effort material with effort posts, links to real news/analysis, and meaningful engagement with material posted in the community.
-
American politics: Discussion and effort posts on the (potential) material impacts of American electoral politics is welcome, but the never-ending circus of American Politics© Brought to You by Mountain Dew™ is not welcome. This refers to polling, pundit reactions, electoral horse races, rumors of who might run, etc.
-
Electoralism: Please try to avoid struggle sessions about the value of voting/taking part in the electoral system in the West. c/electoralism is right over there.
-
AI Slop: Don't post AI generated content. Posts about AI race/chip wars/data centers are fine.
i dont like this idea personally specifically because it means you need to do a degree to give any advice on hrt, and endocrinologists are comically cringe when it comes to studying optimal doses for transition. seems like generally a good thing outside of trying to communicate understudied stuff, though.
Random internet commenters and forums are not "influencers". This applies to people building a brand as video personalities, not to random conversation between individuals. If it applied to forum discussion nobody would be able to talk about personal health experiences or offer one another support for health related problems at all.
It's easy to class identify this, influencers are petty bourgoeiosie (or aspire to be) building brands to seek profit while everyone that isn't an influencer is just working class.
This policy is misguided. China could simply pass a law against being wrong on the internet.
ok entirely on me for associating influencer with something like pghrt.diy
Don't get me wrong I think it's possibly to misapply this kind of thing if arseholes are malicious about it. I just don't think that's very likely with China outside of fringe occurrences. And we both know that those fringe occurrences aren't actually going to affect underground communities like that other than forcing them to move things around a bit.
The important thing to understand here is that an influencer is different to random individuals talking to one another. Randoms don't have audiences they are true subcultures of people. Influencers are media brands that hold very little difference to a television channel or a newspaper. Just because they have the appearance of being amateur due to only having 1 face of the brand doesn't mean they shouldn't be regulated just as hard, particularly when they have audiences that are bigger than most newspapers or tv channels.