I have never seen a more inviting and inclusive place for trans people than Hexbear. What the fuck are these people talking about when they say this shit?
So unruffled is still mad because he got banned from the ml trans comm over claiming is hexbear is anti trans because it doesnt allow libs
Hexbear is a safer space for trans people specifically because we don’t allow libs.
Libs are the ones that started the fascist, reactionary TERF movement. Why would Hexbear let those kinds of people here? I’m gonna be mad today too I suppose. Death to losers named unruffled.
Uncritical support to marcie in her quest to destroy transphobia on the fediverse
If we’re a troll farm we’re pretty bad at it.
How many of y’all actually venture out of Local?
I always set sort to All but because we’re the most active by a landslide it’s still basically just local. Sometimes there are announcements from other instances, but that’s about it. (I did block some low-effort meme comms).
I’m on .ml and basically only browse my subscribed feed. Local and all are horrifyingly toxic and worst of all, unfunny.
Like twice. Shit sucks.
change filter to all instead of local
still sorted by hot
all results are hexbear
Our posting power remains enormous.
“Yuge”
Rarely. Used to be on Lemmy.ml but like it here more.
How many of y’all actually venture out of Local?
I certainly don’t with any regularity lol
the majority of our interaction with other instances seems to be them wandering in here and getting mad at our takes.
Yeh. It’s either some lib wanders in and tries to start shit, some lib starts shit out in the 'verse and gets posted in the dunk tank when they go turbo racist, or… not that’s it. That’s pretty much it.
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Never. Well, rarely, but I always regret it.
My experience on the site has improved massively since i’ve set my feed to Local only.
I used to have an account on blahaj but i got so fed up with the general federated lemmy users and a few of the blahaj users (not ada though, she’s cool imo) that i just abandoned that account and came over here full time
How many of y’all actually venture out of Local?
Never.
My hate for nu-reddit eclipses my desire to search for obscure hentai so I avoid other instances like the plague + im too lazy to check grad.
I don’t even understand how this website works
based
sometimes I forgor too
I go to All when I feel like seeing lame programming memes from 2010 Reddit
And Linux-based infighting?
Pretty much never unless someone posts a link in dunk tank or something. I don’t want to talk about stocks, sports, or do racisms so there’s not much incentive to leave.
We’re a clearly well-oiled troll farm though! Trust the lemmy libs on this one!
I default to All. It’s pretty dead ngl. I went over to .world assuming that because they’re a big instance that there would be content I hadn’t seen or was interesting that I couldn’t find here. Like maybe because they’re were bigger they had more activity in niche comms. Basically the Reddit effect. No such luck. Hexbear stays winning.
I default to All but block
See I like science memes. All others are reasonable. I haven’t seen a single “non-political” meme that isn’t innately and obviously political to me. And the generative art gets spammed all at once.
. I haven’t seen a single “non-political” meme that isn’t innately and obviously political to me.
That’s the neat part about “nonpolitical” memes. They are political.
I blocked science memes when they had overtaken my front page, otherwise I like them. But it’s been awhile and they deserve another go, I unblocked them
Are we still federated with dbzer0? I thought we had some thing with them a while back.
AFAIK we’re still federated, but their admins are banned on here. In the case of Unruffled, he waltzed into the thread about whether we should defederate from his instance, was a horrible debatebro and pulled an “as a gay man, i don’t think it’s homophobic when you use gay as a synonym for bad and effeminate” to defend one of their banned users. He’s an assimilationist respectability politics loser and it’s hillarious that somebody calling himself Unruffled is obviously still malding about being kicked out of our treehouse almost a year later.
Unruffled because they stress plucked out all their feathers thinking about hexbear
That is very funny.
Yeah we banned their admins but kept the instance
I’ve been on a lemm.ee account the past few months, deleted it when I moved back to this one. There’s really not much worthwhile out there.
I browse all but sometimes I refrain from commenting if I notice the domain isn’t hexbear or lemmygrad because I’m not in the mood to argue with humorless libs
same tbh, sometimes you just want to start shit if only to see how many downvotes you can farm
Taste the rainbow.
Oh no the rainbow tastes like violence.
Delicious rainbow.
(Painbow?)
Not a chance. Fuck those other instances not lemmygrad
For the record, this loser also DM’d me a long screed about how he has trans friends and he’s gay and thats why hes an authority or something. He’s @ing me in some irrelated thread months later because apparently I occupy much of his mental bandwidth.
he has trans friends and that’s why he’s an authority
dude didn’t read the survey results, hexbear has several hundred times as many trans friends and is therefore the greater authority
Awwww, he’s an honorary Maoist because you get to live rent-free in his head
A cis gay man? Transphobic? Not physically possible, tankie.
he has trans friends and he’s gay and thats why hes an authority
Sounds authoritarian smh
“As a white person with a black friend, I feel I have the experience to speak for all black people when I say…”
have you tried steering him away from being a dumbass in a more gentle fashion?
i thought not, tankie!
‘gently steering trans folks’ away is just so condescending, it’s like it was made in a lab to piss me off
I’ve heard of punchable faces, and that was a punchable post.
tankiephobic
It’s like they’re forever 12 years old
The Post in general is really funny, its a dude complaining that the anarchist comm at solarpunk didnt let him and others do democrat propaganda and claiming that the admins arent real anarchists for removing blue maga stuff
He and others are just attacking anarchism and the db0 admins are just letting them
Also the dude is the one that was doing this in one of our posts
I think this is tagline material
Lemmy is a platform that was built by and for authoritarians (initially capitalists as Reddit, then only slightly modified by authoritarian leftists on Lemmy). The structure of moderation with mods and admins able to unilaterally take action and the difficulty of organized resistance inevitably leads to abuses, which is what this community is about.
Honestpy, the thing that gets me the most in that first link is how whiny everyone is. “Buhhhhhh, why can’t I tell anarchists to vote for Kamala?” Idk maybe because you’re legitimizing the system you’re supposedly against? Lmao get out of here.
I think OPP is neither of those things, and just wants Trump to get elected and is wearing a little plastic anarchist-mask to get it done.
Dude can’t comprehend others having a principled stance on genocide and instead frames everything in a tribal understanding projected onto strangers. Same dude who lamented not getting a meeting of the minds when his contribution was essentially “I just imagined Republicans shutting you up for good”
Authoritarian is the most useless, anti-meaningful word.
Anarchism is an aesthetic to Unruffled.
real anarchism is when you let everyone be a shithead and have no aims to improve society, apparently
Real anarchism is when you
BLUE on the most important election of our lifetime!! For now
The structure of moderation with mods and admins able to unilaterally take action and the difficulty of organized resistance inevitably leads to abuses, which is what this community is about.
Organized resistance? Bro has never even heard of grass
the difficulty of organized resistance inevitably leads to abuses,
Resistance? To what? Literally what? Somehow our mod team could just do something wild and not face any form of blowback from the toxic trolls you think they created?
This is also annoying considering how much work we have actually put in to wipe away the stain of reddit on this site. Real
moment.
If the workers went on strike (as happened on infrequent occasions), this was evidence of their alienation from the collectivist system; if they didn’t go on strike, this was because they were intimidated and lacked freedom.
This is frustrating to me. On Hexbear, mod applications are essentially a formality for keeping out trolls. Applications rarely get denied. The place is defacto run by whoever feels like they care enough and have enough time to put in the work. It’s a completely volunteer based position. And everything just runs for the majority of users. The most hierarchical part of the structure is imposed on us by the infrastructure of the internet because someone needs to pay for the server and the domain. Hexbear, the infamous tankie instance, is as close to a flat organization as you can get given the constraints. At the end of the day, some people just don’t like having any restrictions put on anything they do at all for any reason. And it sucks to see them turn that into a political ideology and make it everyone else’s problem that they can’t handle living in a community with already-established norms.
How can anyone look at Traaa’s Tactical Herd of mods and assume there’s some sort of strict hierarchical standard here? @kristina@hexbear.net is a marxist, but unless there’s something strange in the background Im unaware of, that comm is the most anarchist organized place on lemmy.
i can and will add any trans person thats not a chauvinistic piece of shit to the team at will. if a trans person has a complaint about the comm i immediately ask if they wanna help mod the comm and help fix the issue
i hate how so many trans places online have been couped by libs and turned into little cliques, rapid expansion of the mod team under an anti-capitalist ruleset avoids this and helps increase participation in the comm. also having such a large group of socialist trans people organizing things is very beneficial for setting up mutual aid work and making real world differences in peoples lives. from what i can tell, we have the largest mod team of any front facing trans community on the internet, and we arent done growing.
also we have a rapid response team that executes cishets on sight but thats kinda just a fun thing we do on the sideinaccurate! there would be a few
in the team somewhere 
plus we have the mod chat, where all mods can share their views about site policy and moderation, which is something i bet no other instance has
I can’t stand the constant pings but I appreciate everybody who does
Tbh, I can’t name a single mod nor admin from Hexbear despite being familiar with many users.
The admins seem to do their day-to-day posting on various alt accounts, while the mods usually don’t have their mod tag active.
9·2 days agoWhat do you mean “the mods usually don’t have their mod tag active”? You can’t turn of the [M]
Oh, they can’t? Didn’t know that. Don’t know what I’m thinking of then.
This is a feature on Reddit. It has not been implemented on Lemmy.
Mods only have their tag if they mod the comm they are posting in, maybe that confused you
The structure of moderation with mods and admins able to unilaterally take action
ideally, every awful, hateful comment must be submitted to a committee made up equally of mods, admins, and users for moderation decisions.
every ban is the result of a super-majority vote of the committee
/s, just in case
In the posting justice system, cringe based offenses are considered especially heinous.
In Hexbear, the dedicated detectives who investigate these vicious felonies are members of an elite squad known as the Special Posting Unit.
These are their stories.
🔨 DUN 🔨 DUN
what even is the point of mods if they’re not empowered to moderate?
“But but but they’re not suppose to moderate me, they’re supposed to moderate the people I don’t like!”
This is literally any website. Somebody somewhere (probably a handful of people) can press the power button. It’s “authoritarian” by nature cause if you piss them off enough, that power can be exercised.
If you want to have a truly “free” space online, then it’s gonna take a shitton of offline work to build an institution to administrate it. Whining online … Is not that…
love me some good ol’
hell yeah i love unfiltered anarcho-bidenism
only slightly modified
The front-end looks similar to reddit, but I’m almost certain the actual code is completely original. I don’t think reddit is built in rust for example
but i must save all the transes from themselves!the cis man’s burden
the cis man’s burden ahh idiot
I came across this mastodon link in the original thread from OP (not the db0 mod but another person being responded to), documenting some of the sketch ass behavior radiating from 196. Content warnings are spoilered in the link.
What does PTB mean in this context? Pulmonary tuberculosis, public test build, permission to board or push the button all do not really make sense here.
paid trollbot?
Pig Toop Balls
Thank you for driving this weird creature back in to sodden pits and moors from which it issued.
Thank you for your service.
- Thank u for your service
