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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?

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

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.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

i don't know of anything like that. could ask on c/askchapo or ask people at the general megathread

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Hexbear is a hell of a lot more based than the old /r/chapotraphouse ever was, you're all spitting fire 🌋

I'm very tempted to make an account on this instance too, much easier to just open the Local feed that way.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

if you decide to make an account, check out https://hexbear.net/c/howdy !

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

If Michael Fassbender isn’t a leftist, we can pull him left by his hog.

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

Hijacking this for a question: What is a struggle session? /gen

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

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

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

Thank you! Do you happen to know an example of a topic which caused a struggle session?

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

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Thanks for the explanation, I feel like I am ready for my own struggle session. Critical support for the vegan patrol! /hj

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