Did you struggle session ur asses to death or something? I’ve never seen this site move so slow. Gonna post my butthole on main to get this place moving again
I got tired of Hexbear being so goddamn reactionary so I started using reddit, discord, dbzero, twitter, parlor, and truth social. Hopefully you all will do some growth and I can start trusting you as a platform again.
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Lovely_sombrero [he/him] - 5day
I wanted to get away from all the liberals so I joined BlueSky.
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Aradino [they/them, comrade/them] - 5day
I blame megathreads
So many good posts thrown into the pit of never being seen ever again
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Snort_Owl [they/them] - 5day
Bring back downvotes to reignite the downvoting every megathread struggle session
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gramxi [they/them] - 5day
where is HexbearMegaSkimmer to repost all the good shit to the home page
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9to5 [any, comrade/them] - 5day
I just dont enjoy posting as much anymore
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PowerLurker [they/them] - 5day
real
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BodyBySisyphus [he/him] - 5day
Posting requires going to sites other than Hexbear to find content
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Snort_Owl [they/them] - 5day
I post purely from my mind
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Sickos [they/them, it/its] - 5day
Free yourself from your physical shackles; embrace the realm of pure thought
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Cowbee [he/him, they/them] - 5day
Work is brutal and the Lemmy.ml trenches are awful.
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Alaskaball [comrade/them, any] - 5day
Thats like saying sun shines, snow falls, and birds fly lol
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Cowbee [he/him, they/them] - 5day
Yep, but the sine waves of each managed to line up for once. My usual escapism from work is also bad, lol
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Alaskaball [comrade/them, any] - 5day
My escapism promotes philistinism, in the Marxist sense, so it can't be as bad as me just wallowing in the mud and eating slop out of it, proverbially, with my enjoyment of Korean webcomics
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Cowbee [he/him, they/them] - 5day
Haha, fair. My escapism is either video games or lemmy, assuming I'm not hanging out with my spouse and doing something together. Haven't read any webcomics in a long time, might have to do that just to mix things up.
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Alaskaball [comrade/them, any] - 5day
I'd recommend "greatest estate developer" because it was recently completed. Most excellent story, genuinely one of my favorites.
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Cowbee [he/him, they/them] - 5day
I'll check it out! TheLastAxolotl also has me wanting to read Absolute Batman too, so there's a fair bit I have to check out right now. Thanks!
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Alaskaball [comrade/them, any] - 5day
Oh you'll have a well-rounded profile of comics to read between the two, then. The former's a more light-hearted fantasy-comedy, while the other is a more serious action-adventure(?) (I haven't read absolute batman. Nor any u,s comics for decades). If nothing else, it'll be interesting to bounce between the two when you find time to chill.
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purpleworm [none/use name] - 5day
I'm not really a reader of western comics (not that I hate them, it's just that it's saturated with like multiverse soup stuff and not even the fun "middle period Philip K Dick" kind), but the Absolute comics in general seem to be really incredible, even Superman, and I've always thought Superman is impossibly boring.
My favorite is the one-shot called Absolute Evil, which is sort of a big cross-story issue that covers an intersection of all the series, but you don't really need to know who any of the characters involved are to understand why I like it, except: Green Arrow (who is historically sort of a naive liberal progressive inspired by Robin Hood) and Hawkman (who is historically a reactionary piece of shit who always got in political feuds with Arrow). idk if this is familiar to you or not so I'm just saying it for completeness. There's a lot of benefit to knowing who the others are before reading it, but I think you can basically vibe it out with a vague recognition of the very biggest characters.
On the other hand, it'll be a little more familiar if you read any amount of Absolute Batman first, but besides genuinely being my favorite, I mention it because Absolute Evil is just the one issue rather than 15 and ongoing.
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Sickos [they/them, it/its] - 5day
This is apt. There is a confluence or synchronicity or syzygy--some form of seemingly meaningful alignment--of just absolute shittiness in the Real and posting hog into the void about it just isn't hitting the same.
Things have never felt so despondent, nor so ripe for true organizing
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Cowbee [he/him, they/them] - 5day
Very well said. I should channel this into more org work IRL, I just feel absolutely drained lately.
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goferking0 [he/him, comrade/them] - 5day
I'm worried we're gonna have another db0 struggle session soon :(
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Cowbee [he/him, they/them] - 5day
Eh, there are some users there that are truly awful, and the head admin is pretty bad for harboring them, but there are also good comrades there and decent content.
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goferking0 [he/him, comrade/them] - 5day
I know, but they're really being awful today.
I still find it ironic they banned brain in a box for ragebait but not any of the other ones doing even worse ragebait
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Cowbee [he/him, they/them] - 5day
There's absolutely selective tolerance going on. If it isn't corrected, this will probably die down for a bit then pop up again in a month or two.
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Johnny_Arson [they/them] - 5day
Brain was 100% right. I looked at that thread during my lunch today and db0 was on a tear being an even worse power tripping mod than almost any example I've ever seen in their own power tripping bastards comm.
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goferking0 [he/him, comrade/them] - 4day
It's weird how excited they get when it's people getting banned for being assholes, and wild only the ones pointing out op did the exact same thing got locked almost instantly
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Johnny_Arson [they/them] - 5day
Yeah that and the fact that if we defederate it will be harder to push back against the obvious bullshit lies they peddle about hexbear. I had to stay out of that thread because I was a work and there was no way if I started replying I wasn't going to get banned for some petty bullshit. Fuck the admin and every Nazi apologist allowed to continue to post on that platform. Spineless fucking worms.
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Cowbee [he/him, they/them] - 5day
The sooner the mods and admins can separate criticism of AES from Nazi apologia the better.
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Ram_The_Manparts [he/him] - 5day
There's a user over there that's "anti deutsche" and openly zionist now, I expect absolutely nothing from their admins/mods.
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Cowbee [he/him, they/them] - 5day
The slim bit of hope I have is for their internal contradictions to force change for the better. There are some good users there and I like talking to them, and I have hope that this improves over time. Then again, I tend to be optimistic, perhaps to a fault sometimes.
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Johnny_Arson [they/them] - 5day
I agree that not all their users suck but that thread now that I read through it all shows the bad probably outweigh the good and there comes a point when I am conflicted on engaging with them. The Debs guy is the worst. Just constant lying and extreme bad faith. Also db0 using autism as a shield for allowing that shit is very tiring as an ND person myself. I wish I shared your optimism but if they keep banning people for pointing that out like they do it's only going to get worse. The funniest part is it won't stop all the even worse subs from calling them tankies for the occasional okay take.
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Johnny_Arson [they/them] - 5day
Isn't there a shitshow temper tantrum with their admin on a banning spree as we speak? In yptb comm hilariously enough.
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goferking0 [he/him, comrade/them] - 5day
While still not banning the one who literally says they are just for causing drama and always being a giant asshole.
But yeah it's totally hexbear being the issue when it's a post from someone who earlier banned a user for pointing out they were using slurs
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Kumikommunism [comrade/them, any] - 5day
I haven't been back to their ecology-related comms to see my allotted science denialism in a while. Perhaps I'm due.
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LadyCajAsca [she/her, comrade/them] - 5day
As long as we have grievances and they hate 'tankies', the struggle sessions will continue
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Snort_Owl [they/them] - 5day
Work seems to have gotten pretty shit for a lot of people recently. I used to have lots of time to goof off and post bad posts but recently I dont even get time to go to the toilet. The late stage capitalism mill grinds ever harder
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Cowbee [he/him, they/them] - 5day
Grind grind grind it goes.
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Diva (she/her) - 5day
it has been particularly bad lately, I too have been very busy with end of year shit at work
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Cowbee [he/him, they/them] - 5day
Sorry to hear that, comrade. Seems a common story every year.
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JohnBrownsBussy2 [she/her, they/them] - 5day
News has been depressing so that discussion isn't particularly post-worthy for me, and now that I have a partner I have that immediate outlet for talking about my personal life so I don't feel the need to journal post.
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Azarova [they/them] - 5day
got told off at work for looking at my phone (hexbear) too much
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princeofsin [he/him] - 5day
Thank you for your service
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Hestia [she/her, fae/faer] - 5day
I’ve been reading fiction as I’m burned out by this hellscape of a planet
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Des [she/her, they/them] - 5day
yeah same. plus this is the busy time of the year for me at work and i'm too exhausted.
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cosmosaucer [he/him] - 5day
what are you reading if you dont mind sharing
ive been looking for good fiction
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Hestia [she/her, fae/faer] - 4day
I recently read a WebNovel called Shadow Slave which is a fantastic read, it is very long though and I had to find a less than official place to read it because I can’t afford to drop hundreds of dollars just to read it (it has over 2700 chapters currently)
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SevenSkalls [he/him] - 5day
Well for me, the main thing I would log onto hexbear to check before was the newscomm and the news mega thread, then that would lead me to posting in other places.
But the news has been so bad lately that I'm basically avoiding this place, and other sources of my news, to keep a mind capable of continuing on and enduring daily life. Idk, it's just been that bad out in the world lately. Every piece of news is depressing. Every now and then there's something like Charlie Kirk incident, but for every one of those there's like 10 other bad events, and I can't keep looking at those and be a normal, functional member of society at the same time.
Need more bloomer content in here for me, but then I feel like that easily turns into begging for the same distracting slop everyone is seeking everywhere else.
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Dort_Owl [they/them, any] - 5day
I've been trying to post more bloomer content, but sometimes I feel like I'm just being annoying because the world is pretty miserable at the moment.
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SevenSkalls [he/him] - 4day
I've noticed and I appreciate it! I don't think you're being annoying.
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comrade_pibb [comrade/them] - 5day
I haven't been posting because we're all waiting for the butthole post
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Snort_Owl [they/them] - 5day
I summoned everyone back to this post my work here is done. No butthole for thee
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miz [any, any] - 5day
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Awoo [she/her] - 5day
All sites experience user churn and all sites must put effort into combating churn with a new influx of users or experience the effects of negative user churn.
I used to spam the site over on the spaces I moderate on reddit but burnt out on doing it and there's essentially no effort from any section of this site to find other sources of new hexbears like there used to be.
The site was getting a sort of no-effort natural in-flow of new bears from lemmyverse but defederating from everything (or being defederated from) removed that no-effort source.
I wouldn't be against doing more to push the site elsewhere again but I would not want to be doing it alone.
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Frogmanfromlake [none/use name] - 5day
Did we defederate again?
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Awoo [she/her] - 5day
There's nobody left to defederate from
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Frogmanfromlake [none/use name] - 5day
I thought we federated back for a brief period, or did they all just pull out from us?
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TankieTanuki [he/him] - 5day
preemptively, as a last resort
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Kefla [she/her, they/them] - 5day
Did I give them permission to pull out? Absolutely not, I will not stand for this cowardice
Wait are we talking about internet forums
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Frogmanfromlake [none/use name] - 4day
I knew I opened myself to that as soon as I pressed “reply”.
Lemmy.ml users have no reason to become main Hexbear users when they can just post here from lemmy.ml, they would just reduce their ability to use anywhere else on the platform for no real gain. The users that came across from lemmyworld and elsewhere were leftists that decided they wanted a leftist instance to be their primary space because they didn't like the leadership of those other spaces. There's no real reason to leave lemmy.ml when you can use here and can't really say their leadership is any less left than here.
A socialist user is likely to leave a liberal instance for a socialist instance if they see it and like it. A socialist user isn't likely to leave a socialist instance for another socialist instance particularly if it reduces the range of content they get access to. The benefit of federation to us was always being able to suck socialist users out of the liberal spaces or convert left-sympathising liberals into socialists and then take them.
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TankieTanuki [he/him] - 5day
no reason to become main Hexbear users
We got emojis and our upvote button is cuter
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infuziSporg [e/em/eir] - 5day
Being defederated from .world, at the very least, is a plus. Lemmy as a whole has trended towards being monopolized by .world, and if you're federated with that instance, it mostly ends up the same no matter which instance you're on.
Having the site's own distinct character is something I would call a huge benefit. It's good to have access to a wide range of users, but not so wide that it becomes just like Reddit but federated. The centrist instances and the worst of the shitlib ones are good to defederate from, but the rest are good cross-pollination material.
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Awoo [she/her] - 5day
We are vastly more active and would be more powerful than .world, their comments sections would be completely different if we were in them.
but not so wide that it becomes just like Reddit but federated
I've always felt that should be handled by bans, not by defederation. Banning the hoggiest hogs and just leaving behind the ones that are capable of being influenced.
The initial federation shock would be large but over several weeks the worst of the worst would be filtered out by bans, leaving behind a generally ok crowd that just need influencing.
Some of them would convert to bears, some of them would not.
This was basically the formula that worked for CTH. Although, CTH's modteam was considerably more unhinged than Hexbear's.
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infuziSporg [e/em/eir] - 5day
In that way it's kind of like tending a garden. You rip out (user ban) what threatens to bring down the diversity and integrity of it, maybe you prune (removing posts) some of the intended stuff that doesn't grow in the right direction, and you keep looking for more stuff to plant (users and content).
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kristina [she/her] - 5day
ever since the ban of nakoichi the sites activity level went down by half
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QuietCupcake [any, they/them] - 5day
There are (were) like 10 to 15 power posters I could name off the top of my head that, while not the only ones to do so, were a huge piece of what kept this place hopping, but who are all just gone now. Some from bans, like you said was the case with Nakoichi, but also Z-poster (somewhat ironically because the two of them always wanted the other banned if i remember right), many others left due to the struggle sessions like PM_ME_YOUR_FOUCAULT, Egon/REgon, (this part of the list I think is longer but I'm not sure about some of them), and some just seemed to up and vanish like Frank. (I miss that guy).
With some it's hard to know because frequent name changes. But it's still clear that many of the people who were the biggest posters just aren't here anymore and we dont seem to be getting new high frequency posters to fill the very real void they left.
Shoutout to the power posters who have stuck around though!
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Enjoyer_of_Games [comrade/them, he/him] - 5day
don't know how they do it.
feels like I'm on here all day yet all I can manage is a handful of comments/day
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PowerLurker [they/them] - 4day
missing Frank gang represent
considering how many relatively new accounts were involved with the recent meta discussions, i do think there are a lot of "power users*" who are still around under new usernames, but who maybe just don't see posting as being as central to their lives anymore, and/or who think the site's still worth engaging but don't feel as comfortable/welcome as they used to (wouldn't know anything about that though i just joined three months ago )
but yeah i do think site culture issues have brought down activity quite a bit, sadly. still better than the vast majority of the rest of the internet, but yeah.
*i'd add that i prefer the term, idk, "active members of the community" or something to power user/poster since the latter feeds into the deeply weird microceleb personality cult stuff that's fueled a lot of the cliquishness here & the issues with giving passes to repeated bad actors.
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SorosFootSoldier [he/him, they/them] - 5day
The "cool" posters all left last week for a holiday in the Bahamas leaving our sorry asses behind.
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Snort_Owl [they/them] - 5day
The fed funding cuts really hit us hard.
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DragonBallZinn [he/him, they/them] - 5day
For sure.
This is the best honeypot ever.
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Hermes [none/use name] - 5day
USAID was my funding source, now I have to apply for Xi-bucks each month. At least I wasn't on the Al-Assad Assistance program, the cuts from that were super sudden and a bunch of people had to quit posting.
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DragonBallZinn [he/him, they/them] - 5day
Walks by with a comically large hexbear userbase shaped midsection
buuuuurp
“No idea, comrade Snort_Owl.”
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Parzivus [any] - 5day
The "ceasefire" in Palestine is still more or less holding. Ukraine is the same as ever. The US is looming over Venezuela but hasn't started a war yet.
I'm sure in a month or two we will have some new adventurism or world conflict to post about. Until then we can chill a bit
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Hermes [none/use name] - 5day
It feels like tons of events are right on the edge of happening, but I can only remain engaged for so long.
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Sickos [they/them, it/its] - 5day
Misread that as "engorged"
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TankieTanuki [he/him] - 5day
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Dirt_Possum [she/her, undecided] - 5day
This came up in an unrelated thread recently so I'm just going to paste something I said last time this came up, with a couple edits:
It's been very sad watching this place decline after years of what felt like one of the few truly vibrant leftist spaces on the internet. I do have my own thoughts and opinions as far as a diagnosis for the decline, but I think they're right in line with what you're saying. The series of major struggle sessions where the moderators and admins were at odds with seemingly most of the users on the site were in my opinion what dealt the heaviest blows that this place never really recovered from. But what you're saying about how "left-signaling" has always been an issue here is at the root of those struggle sessions.
There was a comment that a lemmygrad user made almost a year ago that got to the heart of it and expressed the issue better than I could hope to. Here is just a small part of it.
Without this educational and patient emphasis - and without structures that help democratize the way the organization communicates and functions - the group becomes at risk of toxicity and focusing endlessly on grievances based on whoever is "in charge" at the moment. Sometimes you get lucky and the people "in charge" keep things running well and avoiding turmoil. More often, you get toxic cliques, subsequent imbalanced application of norms, and a treatment of comrades as primary enemies. creates burnout and alienation between everyone.
This instance is increasingly tending towards the latter, with calcifying cliques at various levels that are increasingly hostile towards the userbase. They frame this using communist and liberationist language, though often inconsistently.
It is a much longer comment than what I just quoted, the quoted part alone doesn't really get at the heart of it, so it's worth reading in full. The comment was removed for "dismissing legitimate issues as tokenization" (perfectly exmplifying the point) but another less campist or beligerant mod reinstated it fortunately. It should be noted that the meaning of who is "in charge" isn't necessarily the mods and admins, but can just as easily be a nebulous group of frequent commenters who tend to set the mores of site culture. Incidentally, I think a lot of the problems have actually died down. Hexbear feels significantly less cliquish now than it did roughly a year ago. It is also significantly less active, but that's because of the damage that has already been done, and even if it's not as bad as it was, the problem never entirely went away.
May as well tag @purpleworm@hexbear.net since I was speaking to purplworm in the pasted comment, who had some important things to say that I was responding to.
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Hermes [none/use name] - 5day
I knew exactly what post you were talking about just from your quote, it's one of the best posts on site culture in my opinion.
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AstroStelar [he/him] - 4day
Was surprised to see the linked comment was in reply to a post of mine haha. I had upvoted it back then because I thought it was good too.
HexBear is DYING! On December 11th 2024 WE HAD 978 user / DAY!! 1.47K user / WEEK. AND 1.86K user / MONTH, now we ONLY have 731 user / DAY. 1.15K user / MONTH. AND 1.5K user / MONTH. Then NEXT year we will LOSE even MORE user!
ⓘ This user is suspected of being a cat. Please report any suspicious behavior.
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unaware [they/them] - 5day
Still larger than the metaverse
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dat_math [they/them] - 5day
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Abracadaniel [he/him] - 5day
Good God they really butchered that with noise reduction.
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RedSturgeon [she/her] - 5day
Well I have been reading some Leon Trotsky because I want to understand why you guys bully him so much, would you like me to post about him?
Or would that make more people leave the hex site.
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Snort_Owl [they/them] - 5day
If you lived on terf island you’d know why I hate trots
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RedSturgeon [she/her] - 5day
If their HQ is in the UK then it makes sense why it's in shambles. That must be awful to deal with
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Snort_Owl [they/them] - 4day
The country slips into fascism rapidly their entryism into labour is showing its fruits of doing fucking nothing and they gather in their little circles and go “hmmm we should make a pamphlet”
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RedSturgeon [she/her] - 4day
I love (sarcasm lol) reaching out to "Progressive" organizations that advertise themselves around and asking them if they have any opportunities for people, like if they could maybe teach me and assist me in helping making the world better, are they doing anything good like what's up?? But no they just want to sit around and debate or read books or do charity, but they don't care if there's always more people in need of charity every passing year and social structure around is is deteriorating. They just wanna keep handing out the bread, they don't wanna teach anyone to grow it themselves or actually make it possible to do so.
Everyone is a Liberal. I'm so tired.
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FALGSConaut [comrade/them] - 5day
The trots I've organised with in the past were mainly interested in selling newspapers at protests and doing entryism to a social democratic party. Overall cool people but we disagreed on too much (mostly on China/USSR) and I had to dip out of the org due to mental health/personal tragedy.
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purpleworm [none/use name] - 5day
While I do hate Trotsky, I think most of my animosity regarding Trotskyism has to do with trots rather than him.
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DornerStan @lemmygrad.ml - 5day
He's just as worthy of animosity as his followers imo
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JoeByeThen [he/him, they/them] - 5day
Show some patience. We're updating our fonts.
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NephewAlphaBravo [he/him] - 5day
what's the wokest dei font to use
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radio_free_asgarthr [he/him, comrade/them] - 5day
Papyrus, it is middle eastern inclusion.
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SerialExperimentsGay [she/her, fae/faer] - 5day
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EstraDoll [she/her, he/him] - 5day
updating hexbear.net so the only font that's shown is Edo SZ
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Dort_Owl [they/them, any] - 5day
I'm tired, leave me alone. I ain't no posting machine
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Snort_Owl [they/them] - 5day
Sorry your contract stipulates you exist to entertain me now get back to work.
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Dort_Owl [they/them, any] - 5day
OK OK OK
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Snort_Owl [they/them] - 5day
I am not entertained you will be dealt with
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Dort_Owl [they/them, any] - 5day
You wouldn't hurt a fellow owl.
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Snort_Owl [they/them] - 5day
No i meant dealt with cards we’re playing strip poker
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30_to_50_Feral_PAWGs [she/her] - 5day
Got slapped with RTO chumpfuckery and immediately caught some kind of plague from my zoomer coworker who always stands next to my desk, does the iPad kid stare, and open-mouth coughs on me regardless of whether I have headphones on and my status set to "do not disturb"
So of course I had to go in and make a point of breathing pestilence all over my boss
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Snort_Owl [they/them] - 5day
Oh my god we have the same colleague
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Sickos [they/them, it/its] - 5day
Ugh I'm fucking applying right now and on a video call two sentences apart from the hiring manager "sorry I'm sick right now" "are you okay with full time in office work"
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30_to_50_Feral_PAWGs [she/her] - 5day
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Moonworm [any] - 5day
the vibes have been dogshit and everyone is nasty to each other
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ephemeral [any] - 5day
were all hanging out and getting laid and not typing at the computer like a bunch of nerds
sike I'm very much not getting laid
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Nasalstrip [he/him] - 5day
However, I am definitely hanging out
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gayspacemarxist [comrade/them, she/her] - 5day
I'm hoping they all joined the and are too busy to post
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SpookyBogMonster @lemmy.ml - 5day
I’ve never seen this site move so slow.
Ok, new Struggle session:
What can Marxists learn from Anarchists and vice versa?
Busy trying to find work and depressed. Capitalism is a fuck.
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ConcreteHalloween [none/use name] - 5day
Honestly does feel like we lose 5-10 users every major struggle session.
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AntiOutsideAktion [he/him] - 5day
I've always been more of a commenter so my contributions are going to be a function of activity. But also I've just been tired. My workday and commute usually add up to about 12 hours so my interaction with the site is usually just to check out 'top 12 hours' before and after bed.
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9to5 [any, comrade/them] - 5day
I went back to r/crypto to finally find what Hexbear didnt give me
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Mardoniush [she/her] - 5day
I am working a 60 hour week on top of another 40 hours of other shit, in addition to actual org work. I will be back to stick insect posting on the 26th
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KuroXppi [they/them] - 5day
:stickbug-dance: looking forward to it
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KuroXppi [they/them] - 5day
Sorry I had to make space in my brain for more microplastics so less space for hexbear
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culpritus [any] - 5day
Just haven't felt the posting spark much lately between seasonal life stress and the ongoing fascist clown show flooding the zone. Had a medical procedure recently that is going to keep me from being physically active for a few weeks at least, so maybe I'll get that posting energy to pay me a visit while I'm taking it easy.
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mononoke @lemmy.sdf.org - 5day
What does this community value? To me it appears to be crass shitposting and masculine posturing above anything else. A flimsy foundation for lasting participation of anyone who isn't in on the tired joke, as it were. Additionally most of this website is plague rats and/or Americans in denial about the severity of both conditions. Ironic detachment is seemingly the only tool left in the face of heightening principle contradictions among one's cohort and if one wants to continually deflect everything as "struggle sessions" as so many here do then this will be the result: people leave. The question then becomes what people do you want to stay? I get this is a non-serious post but this place seems to be having something of an identity crisis lately that does not look like it's being addressed satisfactorily.
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Snort_Owl [they/them] - 5day
It aint that serious bro go be a nobhead somewhere else
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mononoke @lemmy.sdf.org - 5day
Damn, I've been owned. Nice!
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fort_burp @feddit.nl - 5day
masculine posturing
This is so weird, I got the exact opposite vibe, that this place is strictly feminist and anti-racist and if you cross the line even a little you're gonna get your shit kicked in. Was the aggressiveness of defense what you found masculine? I've only been on a couple months so you probably have a longer-term view than I do.
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Sickos [they/them, it/its] - 5day
omg did you just assume our gender
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mononoke @lemmy.sdf.org - 5day
I remember you from a discussion I had here about COVID and you had an actually respectable opinion. Why act like this, then? What is wrong with anything that I said?
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optissima @lemmy.ml - 5day
Where's the masculine posturing?
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mononoke @lemmy.sdf.org - 4day
Do you understand that this is a criticism of site culture on the whole and not an individual categorization? Not every single interaction with every single user will be an example of this. It is all over the site, though. Dirtbag left shit is always like this; it was in the old r/cth days and it's not that much better here. The people who try to make things better get run off or leave burnt out from trying to cope with the dissonance. This is the identity problem. Lots of people just want their bro-bro locker room podcast Twitter dunks and others want an inclusive community with shared values, and those two worlds are constantly creating friction.
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optissima @lemmy.ml - 4day
I was asking for an example or two within this community.
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mononoke @lemmy.sdf.org - 4day
In this thread alone I was told "it's not that serious bro," when I am not a bro, lol. I can go digging for receipts, but to be honest I don't want to. There are so many posts complaining about this from the last several years of deleted users who left because of it that I don't feel like this is a question in good faith from someone who has been paying attention for a length of time.
Trying to pirate zootopia 2 as a grown 21 year old man
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TankieTanuki [he/him] - 5day
i went back to shcool
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autism_2 [any, it/its] - 4day
More like shdrool
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Ram_The_Manparts [he/him] - 4day
Neeerd!
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segfault11 [she/her, any] - 5day
my 5.5 year stockpile of Posts just ran out, sorry
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fort_burp @feddit.nl - 5day
You mean there are more of us?!? 😍
(I recently joined Lemmy and have found a home here among you well-read, empathetic, principled, dope-ass bears. Seriously you guys have restored my faith in humanity.)
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goferking0 [he/him, comrade/them] - 4day
❤️❤️❤️🐻🐻🐻❤️❤️❤️
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tithonis [she/her] - 5day
I'm only here for the movie nights, y'all post stuff on here? I am learning so much
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hungrybread [comrade/them] - 5day
I really got to start attending these movie nights
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tithonis [she/her] - 4day
We can add you to our pinglists if you like! Not sure what's playing after I do mine tonight but the action starts at ~1700 EST and continues past midnight every night.
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hungrybread [comrade/them] - 4day
Ooo I would really appreciate that
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BGDelirium [he/him] - 5day
Same as what many people have said.
Stagnant news cycle, busier holiday work times.
I need a post/comment dom to entice me to engage more with my words. I've always been more of a reader than a poster
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gramxi [they/them] - 5day
here's a bookmarklet to submit whatever page you're on to hexbear if anybody wants to increase their posting output
Im over here watching Bound (1996) very good movie 👍
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Homer_Simpson [they/them] - 5day
You banned everybody
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LadyCajAsca [she/her, comrade/them] - 5day
For me I've been busy wrapping up more schoolwork before Christmas and I've been disconnected from politics (well, not fully, but what I mean is serious discussions) to get my stress levels down as well as to be cautious, and I've been moderating my phone usage as well so I can actually enjoy december's slight reprieve from everything...
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Commie_Chameleon [she/her] - 5day
Posting recession
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UmmmCheckPlease [he/him, comrade/them] - 5day
Unfortunately I’ve just been swamped with professorial gigs and speaking arrangements but let me remind you that what we do today has effects tomorrow! Farewell
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FALGSConaut [comrade/them] - 5day
So much goddamn stress going on in my life right now I sadly don't have the time/energy to post on the hexagonal ursine website. Hopefully my living situation is more stable and life less stressful in the couple weeks but I've said that before so we'll see
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Sickos [they/them, it/its] - 5day
it's wild. I have never been so frantically jumping from crisis to crisis and my shit's just all first world problems
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m532 @lemmygrad.ml - 5day
That whole veneer of "respecting disabled people" was just a mask. As soon as an "acceptable target" is found, the mask falls off. I saw it many times.
And badposting turned from "haha I say something dumb" to "anprim circlejerk"
Snort_Owl in main
WHERE THE FUCK IS EVERYONE?????
Did you struggle session ur asses to death or something? I’ve never seen this site move so slow. Gonna post my butthole on main to get this place moving again
I got tired of Hexbear being so goddamn reactionary so I started using reddit, discord, dbzero, twitter, parlor, and truth social. Hopefully you all will do some growth and I can start trusting you as a platform again.
I wanted to get away from all the liberals so I joined BlueSky.
I blame megathreads
So many good posts thrown into the pit of never being seen ever again
Bring back downvotes to reignite the downvoting every megathread struggle session
where is HexbearMegaSkimmer to repost all the good shit to the home page
I just dont enjoy posting as much anymore
real
Posting requires going to sites other than Hexbear to find content
I post purely from my mind
Free yourself from your physical shackles; embrace the realm of pure thought
Work is brutal and the Lemmy.ml trenches are awful.
Thats like saying sun shines, snow falls, and birds fly lol
Yep, but the sine waves of each managed to line up for once. My usual escapism from work is also bad, lol
My escapism promotes philistinism, in the Marxist sense, so it can't be as bad as me just wallowing in the mud and eating slop out of it, proverbially, with my enjoyment of Korean webcomics
Haha, fair. My escapism is either video games or lemmy, assuming I'm not hanging out with my spouse and doing something together. Haven't read any webcomics in a long time, might have to do that just to mix things up.
I'd recommend "greatest estate developer" because it was recently completed. Most excellent story, genuinely one of my favorites.
I'll check it out! TheLastAxolotl also has me wanting to read Absolute Batman too, so there's a fair bit I have to check out right now. Thanks!
Oh you'll have a well-rounded profile of comics to read between the two, then. The former's a more light-hearted fantasy-comedy, while the other is a more serious action-adventure(?) (I haven't read absolute batman. Nor any u,s comics for decades). If nothing else, it'll be interesting to bounce between the two when you find time to chill.
I'm not really a reader of western comics (not that I hate them, it's just that it's saturated with like multiverse soup stuff and not even the fun "middle period Philip K Dick" kind), but the Absolute comics in general seem to be really incredible, even Superman, and I've always thought Superman is impossibly boring.
My favorite is the one-shot called Absolute Evil, which is sort of a big cross-story issue that covers an intersection of all the series, but you don't really need to know who any of the characters involved are to understand why I like it, except: Green Arrow (who is historically sort of a naive liberal progressive inspired by Robin Hood) and Hawkman (who is historically a reactionary piece of shit who always got in political feuds with Arrow). idk if this is familiar to you or not so I'm just saying it for completeness. There's a lot of benefit to knowing who the others are before reading it, but I think you can basically vibe it out with a vague recognition of the very biggest characters.
On the other hand, it'll be a little more familiar if you read any amount of Absolute Batman first, but besides genuinely being my favorite, I mention it because Absolute Evil is just the one issue rather than 15 and ongoing.
This is apt. There is a confluence or synchronicity or syzygy--some form of seemingly meaningful alignment--of just absolute shittiness in the Real and posting hog into the void about it just isn't hitting the same.
Things have never felt so despondent, nor so ripe for true organizing
Very well said. I should channel this into more org work IRL, I just feel absolutely drained lately.
I'm worried we're gonna have another db0 struggle session soon :(
Eh, there are some users there that are truly awful, and the head admin is pretty bad for harboring them, but there are also good comrades there and decent content.
I know, but they're really being awful today.
I still find it ironic they banned brain in a box for ragebait but not any of the other ones doing even worse ragebait
There's absolutely selective tolerance going on. If it isn't corrected, this will probably die down for a bit then pop up again in a month or two.
Brain was 100% right. I looked at that thread during my lunch today and db0 was on a tear being an even worse power tripping mod than almost any example I've ever seen in their own power tripping bastards comm.
It's weird how excited they get when it's people getting banned for being assholes, and wild only the ones pointing out op did the exact same thing got locked almost instantly
Yeah that and the fact that if we defederate it will be harder to push back against the obvious bullshit lies they peddle about hexbear. I had to stay out of that thread because I was a work and there was no way if I started replying I wasn't going to get banned for some petty bullshit. Fuck the admin and every Nazi apologist allowed to continue to post on that platform. Spineless fucking worms.
The sooner the mods and admins can separate criticism of AES from Nazi apologia the better.
There's a user over there that's "anti deutsche" and openly zionist now, I expect absolutely nothing from their admins/mods.
The slim bit of hope I have is for their internal contradictions to force change for the better. There are some good users there and I like talking to them, and I have hope that this improves over time. Then again, I tend to be optimistic, perhaps to a fault sometimes.
I agree that not all their users suck but that thread now that I read through it all shows the bad probably outweigh the good and there comes a point when I am conflicted on engaging with them. The Debs guy is the worst. Just constant lying and extreme bad faith. Also db0 using autism as a shield for allowing that shit is very tiring as an ND person myself. I wish I shared your optimism but if they keep banning people for pointing that out like they do it's only going to get worse. The funniest part is it won't stop all the even worse subs from calling them tankies for the occasional okay take.
Isn't there a shitshow temper tantrum with their admin on a banning spree as we speak? In yptb comm hilariously enough.
While still not banning the one who literally says they are just for causing drama and always being a giant asshole.
But yeah it's totally hexbear being the issue when it's a post from someone who earlier banned a user for pointing out they were using slurs
I haven't been back to their ecology-related comms to see my allotted science denialism in a while. Perhaps I'm due.
As long as we have grievances and they hate 'tankies', the struggle sessions will continue
Work seems to have gotten pretty shit for a lot of people recently. I used to have lots of time to goof off and post bad posts but recently I dont even get time to go to the toilet. The late stage capitalism mill grinds ever harder
Grind grind grind it goes.
it has been particularly bad lately, I too have been very busy with end of year shit at work
Sorry to hear that, comrade. Seems a common story every year.
News has been depressing so that discussion isn't particularly post-worthy for me, and now that I have a partner I have that immediate outlet for talking about my personal life so I don't feel the need to journal post.
got told off at work for looking at my phone (hexbear) too much
Thank you for your service
I’ve been reading fiction as I’m burned out by this hellscape of a planet
yeah same. plus this is the busy time of the year for me at work and i'm too exhausted.
what are you reading if you dont mind sharing
ive been looking for good fiction
I recently read a WebNovel called Shadow Slave which is a fantastic read, it is very long though and I had to find a less than official place to read it because I can’t afford to drop hundreds of dollars just to read it (it has over 2700 chapters currently)
Well for me, the main thing I would log onto hexbear to check before was the newscomm and the news mega thread, then that would lead me to posting in other places.
But the news has been so bad lately that I'm basically avoiding this place, and other sources of my news, to keep a mind capable of continuing on and enduring daily life. Idk, it's just been that bad out in the world lately. Every piece of news is depressing. Every now and then there's something like Charlie Kirk incident, but for every one of those there's like 10 other bad events, and I can't keep looking at those and be a normal, functional member of society at the same time.
Need more bloomer content in here for me, but then I feel like that easily turns into begging for the same distracting slop everyone is seeking everywhere else.
I've been trying to post more bloomer content, but sometimes I feel like I'm just being annoying because the world is pretty miserable at the moment.
I've noticed and I appreciate it! I don't think you're being annoying.
I haven't been posting because we're all waiting for the butthole post
I summoned everyone back to this post my work here is done. No butthole for thee
All sites experience user churn and all sites must put effort into combating churn with a new influx of users or experience the effects of negative user churn.
I used to spam the site over on the spaces I moderate on reddit but burnt out on doing it and there's essentially no effort from any section of this site to find other sources of new hexbears like there used to be.
The site was getting a sort of no-effort natural in-flow of new bears from lemmyverse but defederating from everything (or being defederated from) removed that no-effort source.
I wouldn't be against doing more to push the site elsewhere again but I would not want to be doing it alone.
Did we defederate again?
There's nobody left to defederate from
I thought we federated back for a brief period, or did they all just pull out from us?
preemptively, as a last resort
Did I give them permission to pull out? Absolutely not, I will not stand for this cowardice
Wait are we talking about internet forums
I knew I opened myself to that as soon as I pressed “reply”.
We use an allowlist
Do we not get new users from lemmy.ml?
Lemmy.ml users have no reason to become main Hexbear users when they can just post here from lemmy.ml, they would just reduce their ability to use anywhere else on the platform for no real gain. The users that came across from lemmyworld and elsewhere were leftists that decided they wanted a leftist instance to be their primary space because they didn't like the leadership of those other spaces. There's no real reason to leave lemmy.ml when you can use here and can't really say their leadership is any less left than here.
A socialist user is likely to leave a liberal instance for a socialist instance if they see it and like it. A socialist user isn't likely to leave a socialist instance for another socialist instance particularly if it reduces the range of content they get access to. The benefit of federation to us was always being able to suck socialist users out of the liberal spaces or convert left-sympathising liberals into socialists and then take them.
We got emojis and our upvote button is cuter
Being defederated from .world, at the very least, is a plus. Lemmy as a whole has trended towards being monopolized by .world, and if you're federated with that instance, it mostly ends up the same no matter which instance you're on.
Having the site's own distinct character is something I would call a huge benefit. It's good to have access to a wide range of users, but not so wide that it becomes just like Reddit but federated. The centrist instances and the worst of the shitlib ones are good to defederate from, but the rest are good cross-pollination material.
We are vastly more active and would be more powerful than .world, their comments sections would be completely different if we were in them.
I've always felt that should be handled by bans, not by defederation. Banning the hoggiest hogs and just leaving behind the ones that are capable of being influenced.
The initial federation shock would be large but over several weeks the worst of the worst would be filtered out by bans, leaving behind a generally ok crowd that just need influencing.
Some of them would convert to bears, some of them would not.
This was basically the formula that worked for CTH. Although, CTH's modteam was considerably more unhinged than Hexbear's.
In that way it's kind of like tending a garden. You rip out (user ban) what threatens to bring down the diversity and integrity of it, maybe you prune (removing posts) some of the intended stuff that doesn't grow in the right direction, and you keep looking for more stuff to plant (users and content).
ever since the ban of nakoichi the sites activity level went down by half
There are (were) like 10 to 15 power posters I could name off the top of my head that, while not the only ones to do so, were a huge piece of what kept this place hopping, but who are all just gone now. Some from bans, like you said was the case with Nakoichi, but also Z-poster (somewhat ironically because the two of them always wanted the other banned if i remember right), many others left due to the struggle sessions like PM_ME_YOUR_FOUCAULT, Egon/REgon, (this part of the list I think is longer but I'm not sure about some of them), and some just seemed to up and vanish like Frank. (I miss that guy).
With some it's hard to know because frequent name changes. But it's still clear that many of the people who were the biggest posters just aren't here anymore and we dont seem to be getting new high frequency posters to fill the very real void they left.
Shoutout to the power posters who have stuck around though!
don't know how they do it.
feels like I'm on here all day yet all I can manage is a handful of comments/day
missing Frank gang represent
considering how many relatively new accounts were involved with the recent meta discussions, i do think there are a lot of "power users*" who are still around under new usernames, but who maybe just don't see posting as being as central to their lives anymore, and/or who think the site's still worth engaging but don't feel as comfortable/welcome as they used to (wouldn't know anything about that though i just joined three months ago
)
but yeah i do think site culture issues have brought down activity quite a bit, sadly. still better than the vast majority of the rest of the internet, but yeah.
*i'd add that i prefer the term, idk, "active members of the community" or something to power user/poster since the latter feeds into the deeply weird microceleb personality cult stuff that's fueled a lot of the cliquishness here & the issues with giving passes to repeated bad actors.
The "cool" posters all left last week for a holiday in the Bahamas leaving our sorry asses behind.
The fed funding cuts really hit us hard.
For sure.
This is the best honeypot ever.
USAID was my funding source, now I have to apply for Xi-bucks each month. At least I wasn't on the Al-Assad Assistance program, the cuts from that were super sudden and a bunch of people had to quit posting.
Walks by with a comically large hexbear userbase shaped midsection
buuuuurp
“No idea, comrade Snort_Owl.”
The "ceasefire" in Palestine is still more or less holding. Ukraine is the same as ever. The US is looming over Venezuela but hasn't started a war yet.
I'm sure in a month or two we will have some new adventurism or world conflict to post about. Until then we can chill a bit
It feels like tons of events are right on the edge of happening, but I can only remain engaged for so long.
Misread that as "engorged"
This came up in an unrelated thread recently so I'm just going to paste something I said last time this came up, with a couple edits:
It's been very sad watching this place decline after years of what felt like one of the few truly vibrant leftist spaces on the internet. I do have my own thoughts and opinions as far as a diagnosis for the decline, but I think they're right in line with what you're saying. The series of major struggle sessions where the moderators and admins were at odds with seemingly most of the users on the site were in my opinion what dealt the heaviest blows that this place never really recovered from. But what you're saying about how "left-signaling" has always been an issue here is at the root of those struggle sessions.
There was a comment that a lemmygrad user made almost a year ago that got to the heart of it and expressed the issue better than I could hope to. Here is just a small part of it.
It is a much longer comment than what I just quoted, the quoted part alone doesn't really get at the heart of it, so it's worth reading in full. The comment was removed for "dismissing legitimate issues as tokenization" (perfectly exmplifying the point) but another less campist or beligerant mod reinstated it fortunately. It should be noted that the meaning of who is "in charge" isn't necessarily the mods and admins, but can just as easily be a nebulous group of frequent commenters who tend to set the mores of site culture. Incidentally, I think a lot of the problems have actually died down. Hexbear feels significantly less cliquish now than it did roughly a year ago. It is also significantly less active, but that's because of the damage that has already been done, and even if it's not as bad as it was, the problem never entirely went away.
May as well tag @purpleworm@hexbear.net since I was speaking to purplworm in the pasted comment, who had some important things to say that I was responding to.
I knew exactly what post you were talking about just from your quote, it's one of the best posts on site culture in my opinion.
Was surprised to see the linked comment was in reply to a post of mine haha. I had upvoted it back then because I thought it was good too.
HexBear is DYING! On December 11th 2024 WE HAD 978 user / DAY!! 1.47K user / WEEK. AND 1.86K user / MONTH, now we ONLY have 731 user / DAY. 1.15K user / MONTH. AND 1.5K user / MONTH. Then NEXT year we will LOSE even MORE user!
ⓘ This user is suspected of being a cat. Please report any suspicious behavior.
Still larger than the metaverse
Good God they really butchered that with noise reduction.
Well I have been reading some Leon Trotsky because I want to understand why you guys bully him so much, would you like me to post about him?
Or would that make more people leave the hex site.
If you lived on terf island you’d know why I hate trots
If their HQ is in the UK then it makes sense why it's in shambles. That must be awful to deal with
The country slips into fascism rapidly their entryism into labour is showing its fruits of doing fucking nothing and they gather in their little circles and go “hmmm we should make a pamphlet”
I love (sarcasm lol) reaching out to "Progressive" organizations that advertise themselves around and asking them if they have any opportunities for people, like if they could maybe teach me and assist me in helping making the world better, are they doing anything good like what's up?? But no they just want to sit around and debate or read books or do charity, but they don't care if there's always more people in need of charity every passing year and social structure around is is deteriorating. They just wanna keep handing out the bread, they don't wanna teach anyone to grow it themselves or actually make it possible to do so.
Everyone is a Liberal. I'm so tired.
The trots I've organised with in the past were mainly interested in selling newspapers at protests and doing entryism to a social democratic party. Overall cool people but we disagreed on too much (mostly on China/USSR) and I had to dip out of the org due to mental health/personal tragedy.
While I do hate Trotsky, I think most of my animosity regarding Trotskyism has to do with trots rather than him.
He's just as worthy of animosity as his followers imo
Show some patience. We're updating our fonts.
what's the wokest dei font to use
Papyrus, it is middle eastern inclusion.
updating hexbear.net so the only font that's shown is Edo SZ
I'm tired, leave me alone. I ain't no posting machine
Sorry your contract stipulates you exist to entertain me now get back to work.
OK OK OK
I am not entertained you will be dealt with
No i meant dealt with cards we’re playing strip poker
Got slapped with RTO chumpfuckery and immediately caught some kind of plague from my zoomer coworker who always stands next to my desk, does the iPad kid stare, and open-mouth coughs on me regardless of whether I have headphones on and my status set to "do not disturb"
So of course I had to go in and make a point of breathing pestilence all over my boss
Oh my god we have the same colleague
Ugh I'm fucking applying right now and on a video call two sentences apart from the hiring manager "sorry I'm sick right now" "are you okay with full time in office work"
the vibes have been dogshit and everyone is nasty to each other
were all hanging out and getting laid and not typing at the computer like a bunch of nerds
sike I'm very much not getting laid
However, I am definitely hanging out
I'm hoping they all joined the
and are too busy to post
Ok, new Struggle session:
What can Marxists learn from Anarchists and vice versa?
CURSE YOU MEGATHREADS!!
Busy with work and depressed...
Busy trying to find work and depressed. Capitalism is a fuck.
Honestly does feel like we lose 5-10 users every major struggle session.
I've always been more of a commenter so my contributions are going to be a function of activity. But also I've just been tired. My workday and commute usually add up to about 12 hours so my interaction with the site is usually just to check out 'top 12 hours' before and after bed.
I went back to r/crypto to finally find what Hexbear didnt give me
I am working a 60 hour week on top of another 40 hours of other shit, in addition to actual org work. I will be back to stick insect posting on the 26th
:stickbug-dance: looking forward to it
Sorry I had to make space in my brain for more microplastics so less space for hexbear
Just haven't felt the posting spark much lately between seasonal life stress and the ongoing fascist clown show flooding the zone. Had a medical procedure recently that is going to keep me from being physically active for a few weeks at least, so maybe I'll get that posting energy to pay me a visit while I'm taking it easy.
What does this community value? To me it appears to be crass shitposting and masculine posturing above anything else. A flimsy foundation for lasting participation of anyone who isn't in on the tired joke, as it were. Additionally most of this website is plague rats and/or Americans in denial about the severity of both conditions. Ironic detachment is seemingly the only tool left in the face of heightening principle contradictions among one's cohort and if one wants to continually deflect everything as "struggle sessions" as so many here do then this will be the result: people leave. The question then becomes what people do you want to stay? I get this is a non-serious post but this place seems to be having something of an identity crisis lately that does not look like it's being addressed satisfactorily.
It aint that serious bro go be a nobhead somewhere else
Damn, I've been owned. Nice!
This is so weird, I got the exact opposite vibe, that this place is strictly feminist and anti-racist and if you cross the line even a little you're gonna get your shit kicked in. Was the aggressiveness of defense what you found masculine? I've only been on a couple months so you probably have a longer-term view than I do.
omg did you just assume our gender
I remember you from a discussion I had here about COVID and you had an actually respectable opinion. Why act like this, then? What is wrong with anything that I said?
Where's the masculine posturing?
Do you understand that this is a criticism of site culture on the whole and not an individual categorization? Not every single interaction with every single user will be an example of this. It is all over the site, though. Dirtbag left shit is always like this; it was in the old r/cth days and it's not that much better here. The people who try to make things better get run off or leave burnt out from trying to cope with the dissonance. This is the identity problem. Lots of people just want their bro-bro locker room podcast Twitter dunks and others want an inclusive community with shared values, and those two worlds are constantly creating friction.
I was asking for an example or two within this community.
In this thread alone I was told "it's not that serious bro," when I am not a bro, lol. I can go digging for receipts, but to be honest I don't want to. There are so many posts complaining about this from the last several years of deleted users who left because of it that I don't feel like this is a question in good faith from someone who has been paying attention for a length of time.
In which struggle session did you get banned?
None.
for american posters i think december checks bounced. as for me, im currently busy doing ur mum.
I've been hanging out in the chapo general chat on matrix a bunch. Its chill.
link?
https://matrix.to/#/#HexbearUnofficialCollection:matrix.org
Mind if I shoot you a DM about this?
Sure.
Trying to pirate zootopia 2 as a grown 21 year old man
i went back to shcool
More like shdrool
Neeerd!
my 5.5 year stockpile of Posts just ran out, sorry
You mean there are more of us?!? 😍
(I recently joined Lemmy and have found a home here among you well-read, empathetic, principled, dope-ass bears. Seriously you guys have restored my faith in humanity.)
❤️❤️❤️🐻🐻🐻❤️❤️❤️
I'm only here for the movie nights, y'all post stuff on here? I am learning so much
I really got to start attending these movie nights
We can add you to our pinglists if you like! Not sure what's playing after I do mine tonight but the action starts at ~1700 EST and continues past midnight every night.
Ooo I would really appreciate that
Same as what many people have said.
Stagnant news cycle, busier holiday work times.
I need a post/comment dom to entice me to engage more with my words. I've always been more of a reader than a poster
here's a bookmarklet to submit whatever page you're on to hexbear if anybody wants to increase their posting output
This is cool and good
I was sleeping, jeez!
Joe Biden wake up
Im over here watching Bound (1996) very good movie 👍
You banned everybody
For me I've been busy wrapping up more schoolwork before Christmas and I've been disconnected from politics (well, not fully, but what I mean is serious discussions) to get my stress levels down as well as to be cautious, and I've been moderating my phone usage as well so I can actually enjoy december's slight reprieve from everything...
Posting recession
Unfortunately I’ve just been swamped with professorial gigs and speaking arrangements
but let me remind you that what we do today has effects tomorrow! Farewell 
So much goddamn stress going on in my life right now I sadly don't have the time/energy to post on the hexagonal ursine website. Hopefully my living situation is more stable and life less stressful in the couple weeks but
I've said that before so we'll see
That whole veneer of "respecting disabled people" was just a mask. As soon as an "acceptable target" is found, the mask falls off. I saw it many times.
And badposting turned from "haha I say something dumb" to "anprim circlejerk"
where butt
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