Comment by gnarbarian

3 years ago

It's more than that, it's the entire theme. It screams "you're not welcome here."

It's the left wing equivalent of putting up a bunch of burning crosses and pretending they don't mean anything.

I know exactly how fairly I would be treated in that community and it looks like this: (the flagged and dead comment below this)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34271510

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arlort  3 years ago

I'm genuinely curious and wanting to understand what makes you feel that way.

Are you colorblind and the colors of the text are hard to read? They weren't very readable on light mode but I wouldn't call that political

Is it the mastodon instance? The overall peppy feel of the page?

  • JasonFruit  3 years ago

    If you're not colorblind, you may notice the rainbow progression of navlinks under the title. Then there's the choice to include pronouns as a special data item in the markdown, and the specific choice of "they/them" in the example, even though that's probably much rarer than the two more traditionally-expected choices. Then, of course, there's the affiliation with a Mastodon instance; we're all aware of the developer's politically-motivated choices and limits on federation with the main Mastodon instances.

    Is "burning crosses" over-the-top? Yes, obviously. Does it say, "You're not the kind of social we have in mind," to a sizable portion of potential users? Yes again.