The ironic effect of Hexbear has been to significantly reduce my time on the Internet, because almost everywhere else seems so shitty by comparison.
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Same, I don't use 
much anymore because I have Hexbear and Hexbear is so so so much more chill.
My time spent sitting in Discord calls or scrolling for hours is significantly lower recently because somewhat ironically, the quality of posts here (outside of bad posting, DOWN with beanis) is higher so it takes less for me to be satisfied and 
for a while. If not higher quality, less mentally draining or bad vibe generating. Has been good for my mental because I've spent more time doing things I actually enjoy.
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This place really feels like the old internet.
Without the rampant racism, homophobia, ableism and sexism (for the most part)
It really does and I either we could convert to an old school bbs forum style
The highest compliment
I'm the old Norm, I want to have a normal time onlineThe more time I spend on the internet, the more I’m convinced that it’s so much more useless than we think
This feels like the internet away from the internet, I think because it gives me late 2010 vibes
Best described as the misfits that find each other at a party and go smoke imo. God I miss that shit, we’re in such a cyberpunk age
Best described as the misfits that find each other at a party and go smoke imo.
I would always end up in that lowkey kickback room at big parties in college.
Hexbear really is that room and the internet is one huge frat rager.
That metaphor speaks to me.
the misfits that find each other at a party and go smoke imo. God I miss that shit, we’re in such a cyberpunk age
Every day I cry for this shit. My life used to be just sitting around in the woods smoking all day. Now I just sit at the computer staring at the bleakest shit imaginable (outside of hexbear). Retvrn to stonerdom
I’m afraid it’s just life as you age (when you live in the decades where weeks happen era)
Like, think about it. Do you think a Lenin equivalent would have allowed Silicon Valley to get this far?
Do you think a Lenin equivalent would have allowed Silicon Valley to get this far?
Best described as the misfits that find each other at a party and go smoke imo.
I would always end up in that lowkey kickback room at big parties in college.
Hexbear really is that room and the internet is one huge frat rager.
its my best kept little secret--- like a little fairy door or that hole where him henson kept the fraggles. except inside this hole its mostly queers and commies. christ!!! its a good thing somebody put them there or i would never find them in that mess they call "the world"
it's funny, i've had coworkers ask me about where i go on the internet (cuz i am a based communist ofc) and i show them the lil bear website on my black mirror and they just kinda blink and go "oh ok" like this place is so subtle it's great
(thinking) "this site doesnt have any jobs on it or porn either, ill ask somebody else"
"where are the shorts?"
actually me, don't read me like this tf?
how do you post with the exact cadence to emit a kind of Dril incandesence
i resent this post i have put a lot of craft and personality into drowning all my posts i don't like with exclamation marks trying to make them hit
if the dril incandesence is undesired than i have bad news about this response
no, i only use the LED bulbs 
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This is like if dril and 
had a crossover
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fraggles
mostly queers and commies
The internet is crashing all around us while we're like 
Reject bazinga.
Embrace Queen thought.
what is queen thought?
This place legit motivates me to improve myself and I can't think of another online space as mind-opening or conducive to healthy discussion. The reputation this place gets as some kind of toxic shitpit is totally unwarranted.
Y'all keep me sane. I love this place so much. It's so nice to not have to deal with shitty fascist white racist liberal genocide apologists.
Hexbear is one of the few good spaces on the internet
There are others?
Lemmygrad. We exist :kitty-cri:
oh yup! I forget that it is a separate space because I access it through Hexbear.
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love our lemmygrad comrades.
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lemmygrad seems great whenever I browser via all instead of local from time to time.
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Good post, I can't explain how much I love this place. Anywhere else on the internet it takes such little time until you come across some liberal/fascist take that tries to push the Overton window all the way to the Third Reich, this is a safe haven I can't do without anymore. Lemmy being a great platform also contributes a lot, but its all of you that make it what it could never be otherwise. I'm gonna really miss you people if this site gets 
It really has the pre-2008 niche BBS feel to it. Very cozy and I love it.
If this is what BBS was like, I’m officially a return type for that specific thing. Way better than what is currently the norm.
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This is my only social networking anything. I like it here most of the time, and yes, it does feel free of the increasingly enshittified (and chuddified) state of Reddit and related monopolies that have swallowed up pretty much all populated forums that used to exist.
Sometimes I try to go to reddit to talk about my special interests but holy shit everyone there is so fucking dumb. It's not even politics sometimes, just terminal reddit brain and absolutely 0 media literacy. Hexbear is also the only "social media" site I've been a part of that isn't just constantly enshittified.
This place is great. I love my comrades 
I went on recently and it's just awful. I deleted my account so now I just get the common frontpage and it's just full of stale memes and "DAE le DRUMPF EVERYBODY???" All their political discourse is just
CW: Bigotry
"Orange man ugly and fat and gay and fat and ugly and his wife is ugly and he is cheating on her with an ugly woman and he's fat and gay and also he looks like a lady hahahaha we're the rational left, both sides are bad! Communism on paper vuvuzela 100 billion facism Trump ugly gay Harris funny and cool and good don't you understand we have to be rational when we commit genocide and trump is stupid and ugly and fat?"
Could have given me an aneurism
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ITS TRUE more and more people are saying it
Sometimes I'll still log into Facebook. I have the Purity add-on, which deletes all the unwanted bullshit, and I still feel myself get yet more liberal with all the genetic "we just need to vote harder" posts I'm seeing. Also there's no content warning for dead animal pics (non vegans here: we really appreciate it).
Lots of terrible mod decisions done by liberals and fascists have driven me off of social media. The time I got a ban for arguing with a guy who was posting anti-immigrant and anti-Muslim stuff on was the last straw for me there.
For a POC like myself this is one of the few places on the net that doesn't have seething or overt hatred for my kind
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✨Hexbear✨
it's magical ❤️ couldn't agree more
I like this site so much that I made an account despite not posting much anyway, I just love listening to you comrades, you guys are the realest people I have ever seen on the anonymous internet. 
Took me time and courage to write this comment, I should probably go and touch grass now.
Nobody is trying to sell you something
There are no Nazis
There are no smug liberals
There is no homophobia and transphobia
The only racism there is is the background radiation you get from growing up in a racist society and even that is being minimised
There are almost no debate lords
There are nobody bragging about their perfect lives
Is Hexbear even a proper online community?
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