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.

  • Esoteir [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
    18·
    3 days ago

    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

    • MouthyHooker [she/her]@hexbear.netOPEnglish
      15·
      3 days ago

      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?

      • Sulvor [he/him, undecided]@hexbear.netEnglish
        16·
        3 days ago

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

        For comments you can use the spoiler function.

        Like this

        It’s the exclamation mark button in the little bar above where you type your comment

      • Esoteir [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
        14·
        3 days ago

        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