So, I didn't want to invite a bunch of people out of the frying pan and into the fire as it were, so I'm in the process of doing some due diligence on the folks here at Hubski. First here's one of the co-founders, Steven Clausnitzer, on his LinkedIn page: That's a good start. EDIT: For those I have come looking for refuge, welcome, and here's a guide to how the site works. One of the main benefits, you don't have to see stuff from people who don't matter to you. EDIT 2: I shouted out to the founders via Twitter, this is what one of them had to say.Conversation on the web is broken. There is a lack of true community online, and people aren't developing great relationships with one another. Following topics or interests leads to an echo chamber of likeminded individuals agreeing with each other. When intelligent discourse does happen, vitriolic commentary and trolls drown it out. Hubski fixes this.
The primer is a good place to start. The basic premise of our moderation is that it is user-driven, rather than top-down. Of course, like all moderation it can be abused, but IMHO it's better when that abuse is limited to one user and his/her posts rather than across a topic/subcommunity. It does take some getting used to. You started the #blackit tag, and it has a few followers already. All tags have a personalized version too: i.e. #blackit.MilitantNegro. People can follow #blackit to get all #blackit posts, or follow just #blackit.MilitantNegro, to get just your posts with the #blackit tag. All tags (and users and domains) can be followed or filtered out, and filtering takes precedence. For example, if someone filtered me (mk) but followed #blackit, and then they wouldn't see any #blackit.mk posts. Not all of the functionality is obvious. Feel free to ask folk, or PM or shoutout to me if you have questions or feedback. We are always working to improve this place and feedback always helps. Hubski definitely isn't Reddit. Opinions on the differences vary, and often evolve the more familiar people get with this place. Welcome aboard. blackski? ;)
Blackski...blackski! It's so bloody obvious I can't actually understand how I didn't already think of it... Thank you!
That IS a good start. I'm going to be looking at some Black-owned sites as well, but I can chill here with y'all for a bit, feel it out, etc.
Dang, I should have mentioned it seems gifs are not supported, but animated jpg and png files are. ermuhammad after finding animated gifs are not supported
ehnngh hnngh hnngh ohgod whyyy! Now I want to know how to set tags in your comments. I'm just gonna hashtag this one and see if that's how. #blackit Nope... that didn't work.
If you see a gif you like on Imgur simply change the extension to png. You can't tag comments, but you can tag posts.