When I was looking around for support in customizing #
Hubzilla ...well, I didn't get the support I needed, though I did figure it out in the end myself. What I did get was a rather interesting issue brought up in a forum:
https://forum.statler.ws/display/?mid=https%3A%2F%2Fforum.statler.ws%2Fitem%2F0250a497-df28-4b1b-91ba-e73ea53ddbfaBasically, a couple people comparing the existence of a public feed available to anyone, including people not logged in, to rape culture, because people are being exposed to content that they may not like or be offended by.
My instantaneous reaction was "dear god libs are still hung up on their 'safe spaces'", and, as a survivor myself, comparing seeing something you don't like on the internet to rape seems pretty tasteless. But that also seems like someone a lot of people would call me an asshole for, so I thought it might be worthwhile to do more thinking on it, and see what others think.
My reasoning is: All these posts are public anyway. Back before the internet was all consolidated by corporations, internet safety wasn't only about basic stranger danger, but also just knowing what sites not to click on to avoid offensive content — and also understanding that sometimes, you'll be exposed to that offensive content anyway.
Hubzilla admins also have regex-based control over blocking content from the public stream, along with more basic blocking of channels and instances.
I haven't done a lot of that, because my hub's public stream is mostly stuff that I follow, or political things that others follow; and I do have the public stream active and as my public homepage, because I feel it gives the best sense of the content someone will have if they join the hub. As #
WotW grows, I may change the public feed to contain content originating only here, but for now, that would mainly be one person, which doesn't look awesome I don't think (as that one person).
But yeah, I wonder what people think: Is a generally unmoderated public feed rape culture? Should my new little hub use it on its front page, or is there a more attractive alternative?
