- cross-posted to:
- meanwhileongrad@sh.itjust.works
- cross-posted to:
- meanwhileongrad@sh.itjust.works
Auction: https://www.sav.com/auctions/details/7073489/hexbear.net
Not sure what will happen, but seems to be a Fediverselore event for sure
Update: post from hexbear admin on chapo.chat: https://chapo.chat/post/4468531
I enjoyed the community. Hope they find a new home.
They went through ban wave after ban wave and even their own internal dev team got burned out on the drama. I can’t say I’m surprised by this, but its the inevitable attrition that happens when you eat your own tail for years on end.
The purges were absolutely necessary for hexbear to provide a safe space for marginalized people.
I thought mandatory pronouns were dumb, but I was instantly proven wrong by the number of rabid transphobes who immediately identified themselves.
Hedging new users (particularly the troll repeat offenders) in order to curb the worst impulses of Reddit Liberals was necessary. There were a number of pitches and proposals for how to do that, but none of them manifested. So it was left to the whims of any particular admin at any particular moment, leading to users getting perma-banned, appealed, reinstated, and then banned again.
Then you’d see people picked off for random heated arguments in the comments that had nothing to do with marginalized people. Being on the wrong side of DSA on any given day, liking/disliking a particular politician (be it Warren or Sanders or Jill Stein or Claudia De la Cruz), or even just getting into arguments over the benefits of electoralism or entryism generally speaking got people zapped. Any kind of ill-informed take on Israel/Palestine was bannable. Fedjacketing was common-place. And the degree to which the Report button was used in place of the (disabled) downvote button could not be overstated.
This created a ton of work on admins/mods. And the workload, combined with the development/maintenance needs on the site, ultimately killed activity in the development channel.
It wasn’t the rabid transphobes who did the site in. Go back through the modlogs and you’ll discover how many accounts were removed entirely because a given mod used the ban action as a way to win an argument on something utterly benign.
They’re a bunch of Fascists disguised as Communists. Don’t understand why anyone would enjoy spending time in that shithole.
Because it’s a breath of fresh air away from an internet filled with people like you
Well then stop acting like Fascists and I’ll stop calling you such. You don’t even try to hide it. Constantly talking shit about liberals and leftists, like the little MAGA hats you are.
You supported a genocide.
“fascism is when you talk shit about liberals.”
fascism is a very aggressive “my way or you’re trash” and “everyone who disagrees with me is a liberal”.
lemmy.ml is just as tankie as hexbear
Lol. Least incoherent anti-communist.
i’m pro-communism, tankie
Maybe their username can give you an idea of why they enjoy the community more than western lib infested ones ;)
See this is what I mean. Constantly talking shit about liberals. You know who else does that? Fascists. You people don’t even try to hide it. I don’t even know why you pretend to be Communists. Nobody is falling for it. You’re embarrassing yourself. Grow up already
Liberals endorse a system that requires impoverished unemployed people to function (reserve army of labour). I don’t see why we should not shit on anyone that supports such violence on our own people.
Uh… Buddy you got that backwards, fascists typically ally with liberals (see SPD in the rise of Nazism killing Rosa Luxembourg) or at least coexist peacefully with them until they turn around and take military control. But sure, the fascist instance is the one with a strong mutual aid community that managed to raise thousands of dollars for Palestinians, and whose around 50% of users are trans.
Lol this has been a socialist past time since the dawn of socialism.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=0nFvhhCulaw
Lol. Deeply unserious.