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Revolutionary potential is such nonsense, do you really think america has that? Hexbears fucking fantastic for organizing mutual aid and general "networking" stuff. I know at least one user salted his workplace via here he told me about it, and I've housed homeless trans people via here. We can't do Revolution but we can help other commies and form solid groups that combat the worst excesses of capitalism.

I don't think Hexbear has a tremendous amount of revolutionary potential

It is important to make this point loudly and often. This is a site on a federated network run by administration who are still finding their feet rather than experienced operators of secure websites. (No offense intended at all FWIW, ~~but we don't even have a warrant canary afaik, let alone the recently stark lack of transparency in almost all things~~. I stand corrected see CARCOSA's reply.)

There have already been security scares with other federated sites intended for frequently targeted minorities having servers seized during unrelated raids. The legal precedent in the US and many other places is that evidence not pertinent to the being investigated crime during a raid can still be used as a jump-off point to open new investigations into other crimes exposed.

And it's not one server you have to worry about the security of once you start federating with other sites, it's a whole network of amateurs running servers with dubious security and unknown allegiances. Hexbear and the fediverse as it stands today should not be considered anything more than a social hub for people with similar sensibilities to share news and shitpost.

DO NOT POST ABOUT REAL LIFE OR COOL ACTIVITIES.

This is a shitposting website and the more we forget that the faster we run towards disaster.

Internet is srs bzns, hexbear is not.

But also it IS fed shit to organise a meetup. Don't do that. Join an org. Make real friends. Play board games. Form affinity groups. Use your imagination from there.