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I've gotten to meet a few people from here irl and they were all awesome, I'd love to meet more of our comrades and I expect there's a number of us who feel that way. Not would it be cool to hang out but as much as we wish it were posting isn't praxis however meeting offline makes it much easier to actually accomplish something. My thought was either a sticky thread or new com. People who are down to meet can post their nearest major city and then handle everything else through DMs, that should keep the doxing to a minimum. Anyone else interested in the idea or am I just being dumb?

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I messaged someone a year ago after he implied he was a college student in my state. We exchanged instagrams and he turned out to be over 40 at a community college (which is cool, I assumed he'd be my age but was still happy to have a hexbear for an insta mutual)

Then he started flirting with me, although when I told him I wasn't interested in that he stopped. But then he asked if we could meet up, and for me to "prove I'm actually 19 and not a minor" because "it's hard to tell with people around your age" or something. Told him pretty definitively that I didn't want to meet up, and blocked him after he was like "you sure? Just looking for a communist friend, and I have free beer"

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

jeeesus, did you let the mods know?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Nahh but they stopped using this site later anyways. Not a major user of this site in the first place

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago

Hearing a story like that, makes me wonder if we're not bullying hard enough. Sorry you had to deal with that.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

People who are down to meet can post their nearest major city and then handle everything else through DMs, that should keep the doxing to a minimum.

fry

I don't think you're a fed or anything, and I don't think it's a bad idea to meet up with users if you vibe or whatever, but I do think it's a bad idea to foster a site culture where meet-ups are encouraged by way of posts like this.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago (2 children)

I met one hexbear to sell em weed and they thought that everyone here liking China was a bit and I peaced out.

Otherwise nice though

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago (2 children)

fedposting. Just join an org, you'll meet at least a few of us that way.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Yea anybody in a city where there would be other Hexbears willing to meet up would for sure have a decent organizing presence

Though I will say the idea of befriending people you organize with low-key feels like office teammate friends

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Complaining about an org's culture is one of the strongest bonding activities you can have. Just ask all the ML/MLM/Lux/CCs/Syn/etc stuck in the local Trot org over the years 1980-2015.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (5 children)

Shitting on Trots isn't even slightly controversial everybody hates them haha

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

This is not actually true, the vast majority of posters do not join orgs and the vast majority of organizers do not post outside of mainstream social media (Facebook/Twitter/Instagram/Tiktok).

I joined a local org with 30+ members and none of them have ever even heard of Lemmy before

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

It's better for Hexbear to remain a semi-anonymous online-only social gathering space, and then direct people towards local organizations. Then, if meetups do happen, it's through the context of the local organization.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

Anyone else living in the greater Pyongyang metro area willing to meet up?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

There's like two other from my country on here and I'm pretty sure they all live in in the Capitol far from me. I do visit my family in Upstate New York every once in a while in the Buffalo-Rochester-Syracuse area. Pretty sure there's a few people from here in that area.

Edit: Looking back I did meet someone on here when I was in New York around two years ago. We went out for drinks and I introduced him to his current gf. Haven't seen him on here since he met her 😂

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago (3 children)

Yeah everyone I've met has been pretty cool. If someone posts in /c/chicago I would go to a protest / bar / gun range. Dunno what leftists do outside of "work" but I enjoy hanging out and the cross-pollination effects of like "I joined this org it's good" are productive.

I don't care about fedposting anymore I made a FOIA request for my FBI file and it got denied under 5 USC 552(b)(7)(A) which is the one about active law enforcement proceedings. Fuck it we ball

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

Fuck it we ball

We never stop ballin' fidel-freethrow

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

I made a FOIA request for my FBI file and it got denied under 5 USC 552(b)(7)(A) which is the one about active law enforcement proceedings

you’ve done more than just post online presumably?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

He also posts offline, pasting messages to telegraph posts.

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

I made a FOIA request for my FBI file and it got denied under 5 USC 552(b)(7)(A) which is the one about active law enforcement proceedings

I know we talk about how we’re all on a list but this is wild

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

I haven't done anything so it must be stolen valor from somebody I know. But I'd be lying if I said I wasn't a little proud

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

It's not just jokes lol it's something you just kinda accept if you do any Cool Shit. If I wasn't already under the microscope I probably am now after going to Pine Ridge

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

We should just come up with a uniform and hand gestures to identify each other. I propose tropical shirts and the "okay" sign.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago (4 children)

I was part of a cth offshoot discord for a sec where people talked about irl stuff but shit quickly hit the fan to the tune of high school level drama

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

IDK as cool as it would be to know all the HBs in my area I think this is dangerous. Just join my org and we should have some secret shibboleth to ID each other.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

An 8x11 glossy picture of ppb would convince me

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I’m super paranoid about the idea tbh.

But if you see a person dressed like Garfield outside your local city hall on new years carrying a vegan lasagna and demanding the abolition of mondays shoot me a dm.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

The old calendar is dying and the new year baby struggles to be born.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

Physically impossible and also i think the only way people posting here meeting should be on the streets completely oblivious of the fact that they're posting here.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago (3 children)

Typical Hexbear meetup be like

fedposting fedposting fedposting fedposting fedposting

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

That said I did meet some real cool comrades when I went out to Pine Ridge, just be careful folks.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Cool a bring your fedposting to work day! They really do love us deep state down.

I need a hug and i'm surrounded by frothingfash . doomjak it would be nice to meet some like minded folk. Hard to find in an R+18 district.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

I'd be down! Provided any of you live within an hour of LA anyway

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