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Hexbear has been getting a lot more attention and activity as of late, and while it is very fun to dunk on the new people posting on the site in bad faith, a post to appreciate the new good faith users contributing to the site seems like a great idea.

So, what new users do you appreciate, and what should other potential new users do to get the same reception?

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Hexbear appreciation comment:

My instance doesn't defederate as a general rule. It has its upsides and downsides -- I still have dbzer0 and lemmygrad, but I also have to put up with occasional bullshit from exploding heads and similar. Gotta say it's nice having you folks pop up in my feed to balance out the bad takes.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

See, I didn't know that and randomly picked sdf.org when some of the other instances were having tech issues and growing pains. It quickly became my "primary" account and in all this drama I've learned that I was very lucky in my pick. I definitely appreciate the viewpoints I see from hexbear users.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

meow-hug love seeing allies from other instances. rat-salute-2

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (9 children)
[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

Woooow how original, a gay hexbear. Sheesh, get some new material

spoilerjk I love all my comrades, gay, trans, bi, and (may I be forgiven for uttering such profanity) straight

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

rosa-salute braver than the troops

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Welcome to hexbear <333 so am I! <3

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

We're all so gay and trans and communist <3

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Big if true

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago
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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Gotta say I have much enjoyed my time here so far

No weird socially conservative "communism"

No state department brained liberal "socialism"

Only good takes and unironically based people

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

Welcome the based-department

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

No weird socially conservative “communism”

this is a subset of the western leftist they attack. i know this is counterintuitive. they're basically a subset of breadtubers who play antihero / heel roles

they do a great job of making "NATOids" feel good about themselves

jackson hinkle was recruited by tulsi gabbard a US military psyops person

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

menacing menacing menacing approaching-1approaching-2 when a hexbear spots liberals and nazbols

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (14 children)

I’ve learned a lot from lurking the unfettered conversation that happens here, subjects that I’ve never heard of discussed in great detail. The shitposting is next level. Just a great mix of leftie content here. Also, the site logo is fire.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You guys are the cool commie friends I wish to have, and I'm sad I haven't met you guys before. Such a happy place to get some ~~GOOD OL' MURICAN~~ freedom from all the lib crap we endure daily ❤️✨

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I just got here from Lemm.ee - I was watching the defederation drama unfold and just kept thinking 'dang, these comrades are based as fuck, I joined the wrong instance!' Anyway I'm here now, reporting for duty! rat-salute

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

check out c/howdy

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Been lurking for a few months but this is first online space I haven't gotten those fucked vibes from

I'm still getting through my list of theory so I don't feel confident joining certain conversations yet but I'd like to think being open-minded to deprogramming all the western propaganda bullshit I've ingested over a lifetime has helped me discover this community

mao-wave

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I wish hexbear had gone with the name lib.rehab, because finding this place has done so many wonders for getting the worms out of my brain

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Don't feel like you can't join conversations because you don't have all the theory down comrade. We've all got plenty gaps in our knowledge and people are pretty cool about explaining things if required.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Sometimes the best discussions are kept going and reach greater depths because someone asks an 'obvious' question or contributes a 'basic' point, too. The simple shift in perspective can help everyone to see things from a different angle, which is hard to do even if it's the crux of diamat. And we all learn when a question or contribution prompts an even more knowledgeable comrade to swing by with more theory, etc.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Say the wrong thing some time. Folk will set you right. Its a bit rough on the ego but nothing stamps out brain worms quite like a stern rebuke and as soon as you say "oh shit you are right" everything is good.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (4 children)

I'd almost consider it like an online anxiety lol. Mustering up the strength to not revert back to being a lurker after not expressing a thought succinctly and powering through the posting to stamp those worms out.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I had that until hexbear. Right now I'm possibly getting torn apart by a comrade who seems to have raead more than me. Otherwise how do I figure out what I don't know? And this comrade is cool about it

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

It always helps when it’s an actual discussion instead of a bad faith debate

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Otherwise how do I figure out what I don’t know?

A related question: do you ever get that feeling where you say something (if you're lucky you might stop yourself first) about something that you learned before becoming a commiewithoutorgans and realise it's ludicrous? I do that so often. It's like only the new memories and information have been re-framed. Much of the old memories and information is sat in an archive in the back of my mind, complete with a perfectly intact liberal outlook.

Back to your question: when this happens to me it takes a [span of time] to realise that although I have an answer, I don't actually know what I'm talking about. If yours wasn't a rhetorical question, I don't have a great answer other than to say: try to recall where you learned what you think you know and when. If the answer isn't The Collected Works of Lenarx Dengping and/or 'recently', I try to err on the side of caution.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

Very excited to have you aboard!

No ableism knifecat

Don't forget, if you need to you can disengage from a conversation at any time, just say disengage if you ever need to, if users don't respect that they get banned on the spot o7

Please post, please ask questions, and remember

John Brown did nothing wrong unlimited bloodshed against Slave Owners frog-no-pretext

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

just say disengage if you ever need to

Little corollary: this is not to be used as a "let me post a wall of text and call you names then say 'disengage' and call the mods on you if you reply" tool. You have to actually disengage. Learning how to do that is good.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Is there any generic "intro to Hexbear" post somewhere that I can point other people to when explaining what Hexbear is?

I think there are a lot of people on Lemmy who would fundamentally agree with most of the values held by Hexbear users, but they never give it a chance because of some bad first impression (either they are told by others that Hexbear users are all just trolls, or maybe they even get called a fascist or something like that by somebody with @hexbear in their name).

Would be great if there was some better intro. Does such a thing exist already? I tried searching but did not find anything.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

seconding you go to c/askchapo. the gist of it though is that if we smell a hint of reaction in anything you say, the knives, guns, and attack owls come out. otherwise hexbear is kinda very cuddly and a great place for lgbt users, it has some of the most heavy-handed anti-queerphobe moderation ive ever seen on an online space, it mimics the more radical elements of an irl pride event very well. well over 50% of the mod and admin team are queer of some kind at this point and a good number are trans (me included, i mod c/traa). the mod team also takes nsfw tags and content tags for handling violence against women more serious than any space ive seen on the internet outside of maybe news sites that have the default shocking content label.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago

i don't know of anything like that. could ask on c/askchapo or ask people at the general megathread

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (4 children)

I’ve been on Lemmy.world for a month. I’ve wanted to see this place and Genzedong.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (6 children)

are you literally a boomer? Feel like us olds are in the minority.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (6 children)

I remember when Chomsky was young plekhanov-bewildered

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (5 children)

My only regret is that I wasn’t here sooner! I missed the CTH discord but now I’m glad to be back in the same boat

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