When they were just on Reddit, 196 seeming to be a community of mostly children at times being encouraged to be horny and fetishize trans folk was at least a bit yikes which is why I never engaged with them.
HB jokes about the volcel vanguard a lot, but there's a kernel of truth for how much less horny this instance is which is good for discouraging chaser behavior.
I think it was the John Deere strike. An ambulance showed up a couple hours into the first shift lmao
This is the thing about people that aren't used to engaging with hexbear - they aren't used to holding minority viewpoints. They liked that on other platforms (and IRL) they could just throw around the weight of institutional orthodoxy and "common sense" and be validated by crowd affirmation without having to really explain themselves, so when they're made to show their work, their argumentation really pales in comparison to users on hexbear who have spent years arguing in favor of some the most suppressed political ideologies in the West.
I get your gripes. For the longest time The Devil and Karl Marx was one of only a handful of Communist related books in my local library system (and by far the most checked out). The city council and board of trustees even made successful efforts to censor Black History and Pride Month events and displays this past year.
That being said, we do have allies and even comrades working within the system as librarians and aides. The ones in my city managed to help me get Blackshirts and Reds and The Jakarta Method onto the shelves.
Libraries being one of the last remaining third spaces of public life will definitely be a zone of struggle as market interests seek to hollow out and privatize the ever diminishing Commons, but there's solidarity to be found despite how bleak the situation seems.
not the person you replied to, but
as a lemmy.world user, I can’t tell you all enough about how much our quality of life has improved since we defederated form hexbear.net. far less moderation is necessary and general browsing is far more pleasant not having to constantly be bombarded by those awful stickers and brigades of trolls with their endless baiting and attacks
"they just recalled incorrectly" is quite a charitable interpretation
tbh idk how people can complain about off-topic conversations. Just collapse the thread, fam. It really is that easy 🤷🏽♀️
based if true
okay ChaCha
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"The design and prototyping was funded by a grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation [...] Each prototype came to about $10,000 including design, materials and engineering, says Odbert, but the idea is that the cost for each shade would drop to about $2,000 if mass produced."
Good, I like having them around. They give the fediverse the spice of life that prevents it from becoming just another necrotic pool of internet backwash filled with stale memes and pandering comments like what late Digg became and what reddit has been turning into.
The whole "Manifest Destiny is innocent because colonialism is just human nature" is very popular with Amerikkkans. I've heard this same shit from grade school to the workplace.
They fucking love essentializing their national crimes as products of evolutionary behavior so they can pat themselves on the back for "overcoming" their "natural" urges while being flabbergasted about the oppressed for wanting accountability from the still existing regime that perpetrated it (and still is!).