Is covid-liberalism a bannable offense in c/covid?
I’m getting really fucking weary of seeing sentiments like, “being upset about someone scheduling a non-emergency dental appointment in the middle of the second largest covid wave is deranged” or “you’re a selfish asshole for expecting your loved ones to do the bare fucking minimum to protect you” in discussions on masking or vaccine uptake
I know I’m not the only one disappointed in the growing anomie. Maybe we should operate more like c/vegan where everything from omnivore apologia to overt antiveganism (analogous to the above anti-precaution/anti-max/anti-vax-apologia) is forbidden, and posting/commenting as much gets you a ban?
The !vegan@hexbear.net sidebar has lots of resources that lurkers can use to educate themselves before posting, but the !covid@hexbear.net sidebar does not. If the sidebar includes resources about dentist safety, moderating comments that express unfamiliarity with or opposition to those resources seems reasonable.
i saw someone share that covid.tips resource a while back that I think would also be good as a sidebar resource
Yes please
I don’t remember Hexbears being this bad about COVID before :(
Hexbear has grown a lot in recent months, we have over 900 daily users now
it feels less active than a few months ago for me, aside from the undying threads that stay at the top of main for ages, maybe my account is fucked up somehow
Nah you’re right, I clear through the site in like half the time I used to (I use it to kill time at work so it has been obviously noticeable).
Do y’all stay local? I have nothing to back it up, but think more and more of our activity is happening over on federated comms.
I sort by all but it’s mostly local (with some lemmygrad thrown in). Checking the front page right now, 16/17 top posts in the last day are local (1 from lemmygrad), and 15/16 active posts are local (1 from lemmy.ml); 12/15 hot are local but I don’t use hot sort much. I’ve blocked a lot of the low effort (federated) meme comms but those were mostly low activity with lots of votes IIRC.