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?

  • Strayce@lemmy.sdf.org
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    1 year ago

    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.

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      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.

  • north [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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    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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    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 ❤️✨

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    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.

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      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.

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    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

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      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

    • MolotovHalfEmpty [he/him]@hexbear.net
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      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.

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        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.

    • Mindfury [he/him]@hexbear.net
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      holy shit, the GOAT joined our website fidel-balling

      also don’t worry, we’re fucking wrong all the time. we then talk it out. it’s how we grow

    • Commiejones [comrade/them, he/him]@hexbear.net
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      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.

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        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.

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            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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              Or go back and revisit something you loved from childhood and realize it’s shitty and reactionary and you didn’t have any idea at the time.

              Dark Knight, CGP Grey, a bunch of anime (like 99% of it), Lion King, etc etc. There’s so many things dripping with ideology and it doesn’t even cross your mind until you have a Marxist lens shift

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                fr!

                I dread consuming old books, music, and movies etc that I loved when I was younger in case I realise it was trash and I ruin the memory. It’s a shame because I want to re-live those memories. But you have to balance it: is it a risk you want to take?

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        Even after reading loads it’s still possible to be wrong. It’s good to be humble and see knowledge not as an individual thing but as something that it takes a community to work out. That helps a little with the hits to my ego, anyway. It’s still hard not to take a stand due to the way liberalism shapes the mind before it’s freed.

  • AOCapitulator [they/them, she/her]@hexbear.net
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    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

    • 420blazeit69 [he/him]@hexbear.net
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      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.

    • Apathy Tree@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      Omg I wish everywhere did that.

      I had a conversation earlier that I wanted to disengage with because the person was strawmanning me and it was clear, after pointing out to them already that’s what they were doing, I wasn’t going to have a productive discussion, so I said I was no longer going to interact and got 2 reply meaaages to it, basically trying to egg me on to re-engage, one of which said it was ironic I was telling him I was disengaging… Simply because I told him I was doing so?? (Which I did not respond to, for obvious reasons)

      I love that that will be respected here. 💜

  • Jobasha [comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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    marx-hi

    Finally made an account after lurking for the past few months. This community is one of the few corners of the internet that doesn’t give me psychic damage. Hello, comrades, thank you for the warm welcome and for being cool people on a cool bear website.

    • ProxyTheAwesome [comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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      struggle sessions on hexbear are when there’s a large disagreement on a specific subject and arguments ensue. It’s not a struggle session if it’s everyone ganging up on one lib or chud, it’s only one if it’s more of a 50-50 split in the community. Usually it resolves by mods locking the thread but sometimes it spreads to other threads. We don’t allow sectarianism so its not usually a struggle session between say anarchist and marxists, but instead on some single issue.

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        I was just reading David Priestland’s “The Red Flag” and came across a mention of the Chinese “struggle sessions” in Maoist China, and I have to say I chuckled a bit at the dark humor of this usage

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          Past examples include silly topics such as whether or not bidets are bourgeois, to more serious topics such as Xinjiang or Ukraine crisis. Everything from outdoor cats vs. indoor cats, veganism, use of controversial terms/phrases

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    Well you for one, for making this topic, it’s a good idea

    Assuming you mean new users even from outside the instance, I’ve seen a few users from elsewhere post dune memes, and we need more duneposting

    Also more generally the free software / anti-IP / linux content seems to have increased (we had comms for those of course but theirs are bigger) and that’s pretty great too

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      Were you able to migrate your posts, subs, and comments? I didn’t realise lemm.ee was, well, what it is when I first joined. (I just liked the look of the double letters.)

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          Unfortunately, they’re also fedded with exploding heads, but I’ve never actually seen a post from there.

          Exploding heads has been shut down, because nobody on Lemmy wanted to accept their bullshit (they made a long post about it before they finally closed), so actually nobody is federated with them anymore

  • qbduubdp [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    New user not really contributing atm, but I found my way here from exploring lemmy and hearing all the controveries.

    What I’ve enjoyed the most so far is seeing my preconceptions of internet leftism challenged and corrected. I checked out cth and genzedong back before reddit banned both and always thought it was simply full of antagonistic lefties who just wanted to troll libs. Honestly, it put a bad taste in my mouth and made me sad about the state of the left.

    Being around here for a few days has shown me how absolutely wonderful everyone is as well as how deep conversations can go when yall have your own space free from constant lib attack. It’s easy to see how I attributed the antagonism wrong and that it was simply defense against lib brigades. In hindsight, wish I would have just dug a little deeper back then and be partying with y’all since.

    I’ve already learned so much lurking and look forward to learning more and interacting with all you beautiful people.

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    Hello, made an account here since the lame instance I was in only federate with other lame instances. I’m exited to post all my bad takes.