Friday Thoughts 11

This turned out to be a heavier lift for my thoughts today than when I started writing. Almost deserving of its own post(s). Nevertheless, here are today's thoughts! ¶ Regarding my post yesterday, asking about Bear Blog's potential toxitiy: Sylvia reached out to me by email to reassure me that Bear Blog is not toxic. The trend was newer users to the platform treating it like social media, which CAN be toxic. Herman recently updated Bear's code of conduct and the very first paragraph shows us the kind of community we should expect: Bear has a warm, welcoming community. We'd like to keep it that way. While you’re here, we ask that you treat others with kindness and respect. It also has a very concrete description of the purpose of the Discovery feed (which is the point of contention from some of the recent posts that led to the feeling of toxicity). The one thing I would like to see from Herman is a more prominent place for the Code of Conduct; I had to click through the Terms &…