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
I’ve been on hexbear since the day it started (obviously not from this account) and I’m about to just give it up completely.
The bad memes alone were almost enough to make the feed unusable, but even when I’m using local only mode I have to read the worst takes imaginable from people off site.
I left Reddit when we got the boot from there and realized it was good for me, but this just feels like going back and now I can completely understand why it sucked.
I had warned of exactly this happening when the federation discussion thread was still up. The site culture will change, and the process is irreversible (so long as we remain federated). The people who like the chapo era shitposting will love the change, but the people who seek the unique vibe of Hexbear will find themselves losing that space. There will be new people who join and old people who leave, which changes the composition and the culture of the forum. People told me back then that you can just stay out of it by not activating the All tab, but this is clearly not true.
For the record, I am for the federation, but I had asked that a contingency plan be made for people who find peace in the unique culture of this forum who clearly doesn’t want to be bothered with Reddit style liberalism.
Yeah federation was certainly effective for giving the site the old subreddit feel, but I liked what Hexbear became. There was no other place like it and I say that as someone who isn’t particularly vulnerable. I can’t imagine what it’s like for people who are.
This might sound self serving, but as a cissie having a space where vulnerable people could talk openly (particularly trans people in Hexbears case) was useful in my own radicalization. Every day I was reading perspectives from people whose lives I would never experience, and it was honest and everyone was nice.
But I kinda feel like we threw that out the window and let the jackals in and now we have to re-litigate the whole thing again. I don’t wanna. Especially considering if I do want to argue with people who aren’t worth the lifetime stroke count from the keys on my keyboard I could just go to literally any other social media platform on the internet.
I’m in the same boat. I really don’t like it.
The biggest lie was the one where we needed liberals. Hexbear and lemmygrad don’t need these people.
Correct me if I’m reading your comment wrong.
I don’t want to come off as catty or standoffish but blocking the meme comms on other instances made the experience way better. The absolute Facebook boomer tier slop on some them was so bad.
You’re absolutely right it does and I have. I only bring it up because they’re so truly and utterly unfunny it offends me they share a space with us.
Ok yea in retrospect sorry if I came of as condescending. I feel like reading endless posts about “brigading” is making me view people as tech illiterate by default. I’ll do better
Nah your fine I didn’t take it that way