Yeah, the instances that are most dedicated to fighting fascism and providing a safe space for lgbtqi+ and other marginalized groups are the "toxic" ones. Those are the instances that need to be contained so you can block them, huh? HMMMMMM....
QuietCupcake
joined 3 years ago
Yvw. Yeah I'm really glad jumble (who is a user here btw) has made this collection of premium feeds. There are some great podcasts I never would have known about if it weren't for jumble and other podcasts I already knew (like TrueAnon) that would be a much bigger pain to listen to their patreon episodes.
As far as SoulSeek goes, I'm not sure if you caught my other comment, but user podking is pretty consistent I think. Has been when I checked, but I usually don't have much reason to, given jumble's collection. But jumble.top does sometimes go down for a while and it looks like American Prestige (a left-lib podcast) has just recently banned jumble 
so at times SoulSeek remains a necessary backup.
That documentary about Alex Honnold free soloing El Capitan was a giant hoax, actually. He just crawled a really long way on horizontal rock while his crew tilted the cameras.
If you use an app to listen to podcasts (I like Antennapod, it's FOSS), just click/tap subscribe and paste the feed link directly into it; voila, you are now subscribed to the TrueAnon premium feed.
Edit to add: If you just want an .mp3 or whatever and don't mind using a peer to peer network you can also use SoulSeek (slskd is a FOSS client for it) to get any episode. Just search for user "podking" and right click on their name to see their files. They have just about every episode not just of TrueAnon but most leftist podcasts.
Seriously, why not just stay on reddit, or (same thing) move to .world? If manually blocking things that are shocking to your precious little sensibilities is too hard for you, there has always been other places that pander to echochamber-seeking dorks like you.
Hexbear as a community was never going to leave. We almost lost our domain due to some silly bullshit but thankfully it didn't happen. Even if it had though, we were just looking at a name change, maybe becoming hexbear.ml (or something like that) or possibly rebranding as some other name entirely. But we were never just gonna cease to exist like it appears lemm.ee will.
That said, I am a little sad lemm.ee is going. It may have had its share of asshole users, but there were(are) definitely some cool people on it too. And whatever anyone can say about it negatively, lemm.ee is a hundred times better than fucking .world. My god THAT instance is a cesspit. .World is vehemently, aggressively trying to be reddit 2.0 along with all that implies including amplifying everything that makes reddit a shit website and corrosive lie of "community." Lemm.ee may have had its issues, but if nothing else, it was a solid alternative to .world and that alone is enough to make me sad to see it go. There are even a couple users on it that I hope to see make an account on hexbear and plenty of others that would fit on .ml or one of the the other more generic instances.
Edited to fix typing mistakes.
i dont think crackers are criminals i think they are the unsung heroes of the digital age
You should invite him to do an AMA here so he can get mad and (not incorrectly) call us all LARPers.
We arguably ARE the most lgbtq instance that isn't specifically about lgbtqia+ (it is about radical leftism which is inseperable from lgbtqia+ rights and liberation). And nah, my
reaction is 100% appropriate here. What's more, hexbear is known for taking long and difficult looks into the mirror, to a degree liberal instances could never hope to do. Our resolute dedication to rooting out and correcting misogyny, racism, homophobia, transphobia, ableism and even just plain unrecognized privilege is well known and easily confirmed by looking at our history. Whatever lgbtq instance defederated from us was not because of homophobia or transphobia or anything like that, but rather their unwillingness to address the chasers infesting their community and our subsequent unwillingness to tolerate that kind of behavior and keep it from eroding the safe space that has been built through hard work and the dedication especially of the many trans people that make up our community. Trying to paint hexbear as anything other than in complete full support of lgbtqia+, which the vast majority of us are, is absurd and insulting.