askchapo

hell of a time to join the site lmao, welcome

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

I would love to post it and scream into the internet abyss

There's a longstanding tradition on this site to have a new "general megathread" every few days which is basically all about screaming into the void. Sometimes crying into the void, cheering into the void, laughing into the void too. The current one is here. If you scroll through it you can get a good feel for the types of comments people make. It's probably the best way to get up to speed on the site's culture. If you don't see the general megathread on your front page, you can click "Local" in the "Subscribed / Local / All" boxes at the top of the home page and see it show up in the post list.

There's also a news megathread roughly weekly, intended for more serious discussions of current events. The current one is here. It's another good place to get used to the site culture.

One thing I love about this site is the incredible range of personal experiences and niche knowledge of the users. It's definitely not a monoculture. I think that's a sign of a healthy userbase.

You want to post people with shitty attitudes towards sex workers? The new counterpropaganda comm for now while the situation with the dunk comms gets worked out. Just include an explanation of why their views are wrong per the comm rules

If you just want to vent/talk about your experiences: chat, the general megathread, maybe womenby depending on the subject, trans megathread if you're trans

Sex workers are workers around these parts

You can always post on main. The in-joke for that comm is that you somehow gotta fit the word "main" into the title. And if you comment there you also gotta somehow fit the word "main" in there as well. Of course that rule is technically on pause but some folks like to be good sports and do it anyways.