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?

    • Awoo [she/her]@hexbear.netEnglish
      19·
      1 year ago

      Wait did blahaj defed? I thought that post was just a joke that they would defed because we’re not pro-nato?

        • TokenBoomer@hexbear.netEnglish
          18·
          1 year ago

          I don’t get defederating unless you _want_an echo chamber. I like hearing from liberals, and conservatives, it makes me question my beliefs. I don’t want us all to think the same. That’s boring.

          • nocages [they/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
            21·
            1 year ago

            They call leftist spaces the “echo chambers,” yet they are the ones rushing to shut up opinions they don’t agree with by defederating. Kind of funny.

              • GarbageShoot [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
                11·
                1 year ago

                DemSoc (the people who think socialism can be voted in) is basically the least-radical tendency that it is site policy to treat at least somewhat respectfully. Other people can post, but the anti-sectarian rule doesn’t apply to people who just want free healthcare and more bombs dropped on Somalia

              • GreatWhiteNope [she/her]@hexbear.netEnglish
                10·
                1 year ago

                Hexbear tries to be anti-sectarian, so I think the general definition of leftist here would be anti-capitalist.

                The user base probably leans more ML/communist than anarchist, though.

              • infuziSporg [e/em/eir]@hexbear.netEnglish
                9·
                1 year ago

                We mean anyone who is fundamentally opposed to capitalism on the basis of its unequal and unjust distribution of wealth, and seeks a definitive break in favor of more democratic or representative control of the products and direction of society.

        • axont [she/her, comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
          12·
          1 year ago

          We haven’t been brigading so much as there’s just a lot of us and we all have a mental illness to post as much as possible, but I can see how that would make us seem like a sudden swarm of us. We’re like flies to shit. We’re little piggies who love slop.

          • spectre [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
            3·
            1 year ago

            We’re also haven’t had the chance for 3 years to post as a group so we were ready to blow

            It’s probably never going to stop completely, but it should be a lot less frequent after another week or two from now