These bigoted, ignorant scum will never listen to anything. They are politically illiterate infants with an allergic reaction to reading.
They have ruined a safe space cultivated and cared for, they have turned this place into a new reddit.
I had a dude in my private messages going on about how I was both mutilating myself and other children. Many more people on hexbear have had similar experiences, with these worthless ignorant scum popping in to deliver the political equivalent of a giant shit.
As your friends, comrades, and people you say you defend get slurred at, dehumanized, and harassed please ask yourself:
Is it worth it?
I have the answer, I know you know it as well:
No its not
I used to think otherwise
I was a fool
its not worth a few laughs
even if you dunk all you want, that doesn’t take away the knife those people put in our backs.
These bigots, fascists, and NATO liberals are as worthless offline as they are here, why should we give them any attention. They are worth less than the dirt beneath our fingernails. Why should we poison ourselves with their influence? We don’t make any room for them offline, why should we not online?
And really
How many essays have your written?
How many sources have you combed through?
How many times have you explained the most basic facts of reality?
How many attempts at good faith?
Only for them to dismiss it in their stupidity. They don’t read it, they just crumble and divert back to the programming these little shits trust in more than God.
For every time there is a good faith user, there are a dozen scumbag fascists. And most of the time, the “good faith one” just reverts back to their old shit.
Do you really think losing any member of the hexbear or lemmygrad community, longtime members or not, is worth a few good dunks?
I don’t believe a small chance of gaining a new user is worth alienating an entire section of the community. The vast majority of those idiots are lost causes. If they are interested, the can just make an account and ask in good faith.
Is posting a meme to “own the liberals” worth your comrades getting more trauma from bigots harassing them?
No its not.
you’ve had your laugh, but it should end
Ban them all, SJW, lemm.ee, lemmy, the programmer nazi edglords. Keep Lemmygrad.
Defederate from those communities. We shouldn’t sacrifice our own for more clicks. For having to subject ourselves to the opinions of people thoroughly brainwashed? We aren’t reddit. We came here to get away from that. I’m sick of this. We are sick of this.
End it now
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— “This is just how it always starts, don’t it? Every inch you give them, they take miles. It’s the same obvious type of bullshit that the people who push these ideas through never think about. Around these parts, we take care of our own — at least, that’s the way it ought to be. Last thing we need is more shitstirrers coming in here to mess with the closest thing we’ve carved out to something decent. Hell, we barely had ourselves sorted out before whoever-on-top opened up their cages on us.” He spits. “Bunch of fucking assholes.”How are you so insanely good at this. Genuinely, its art.
And everything you said is absolutely on point.
my headcanon is that we attracted one of the DE writers and they’re now posting here.
Its the only explanation, the bits are god tier
I literally hear the voice actors in my head every time. it’s uncanny.
same!
Is it Mack McGuire’s or Matt Christman’s voice, though?
Matt Christman is probably the worst voice actor I’ve ever heard. Mack McGuire
depends on your current mood when reading it
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maybe it’s Helen Hindpere
There’s translations of Sacred and Terrible Air available now, this doesn’t read like something Kurvitz wrote. He’s more florid and metaphorical than that.
The based “Try That in a Small Town” where it’s a group of union guys murdering mercenaries.
Brings tears to my eyes
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I agree. It’s made things worse
Feels like the site has just become r/shitliberalssay.
I think being with several instances has been a little much. Imo we stick with lemmy.ml and lemmygrad but defed from everyone else. I haven’t been as online but they don’t seem that bad
I still barely understand what this federation business was about and at this point im too afraid to ask
Letting people line up outside your house to take a hot steaming shit on the floor on the off-chance you’ll be able to convince one of them not to take a shit
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Aside from the big liberal instances, we’re federated with some small ones that I don’t mind seeing, like Star Trek.website or the Life is Strange-themed instance. I hope we can keep those at least.
Life is Strange-themed instance
s’cuse me what
It’s very cute
Pricefield is cute
bae before bay
Bay before bae
I sense a struggle session
It’s pricefield.org and we’re federated with it! It’s not terribly active, but I always smile seeing it.
ive already made an account, I love life is strange
I liked the first one until you had to destroy the entire town to kiss the pretty girl
We started out on reddit, we’d still be on reddit if the State department hadn’t kicked us off. How can they make us more like what we already were?
I’d like to think that we’re capable of change
I liked the subreddit.
On there we weren’t able to filter out the transphobia and reactionaries that wandered in from all, but we could absolutely make them afraid to open their mouth. We just need to get good at doing that again.
Though I do empathize with the problem our identity crisis has caused. We started out as a Chapo lifeboat that was always going to federate, then we paused that and took a more insular safe space approach which attracted a different user base, and now we’re pivoting back which is going to cause problems.
the problem is that many are genuinely too stupid to understand, or too fascist to care
rolls up sleeves let me at 'em.
Okay I actually have it all figured out, a solution that will make everyone else, but most importantly, me, happy.
Hexbear dederates from everyone but lemmygrad. A new instance spins up, called Chapo.chat, and federates far and wide. Hexbear federates with Chapo.chat. Hexbear users can come out into the post trenches at will but also cycle back for some lib free r&r. And I get to finally be free of being called a fuckint Hexbear.
How much is it to host one of these bad boys I’ll cover it.
I also hated the name change lol. Let’s do this, let me just be a slimy little chapo again.
I literally left this website until federation was announced over it, but then again, I am a giant baby.
Yeah I’m stuck no matter what lol, my snout needs slop and this is its preferred kind
Lemmygrad is the only good one. I really love Lemmygrad.
The slow drip of anti-anarchist content is kind of grating, actually.
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The one thing positive I will say is that this is the lowest level of infighting I’ve seen among Hexbears in years.
The defederation will result in an immediate internal purge lol
We will all be purged on that glorious day for being the biggest libs on the site.
This has actually happened before
NONE OF YOU ARE FREE FROM SIN
It was just a glitch, but it was very funny.
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