It must be said again: Hexbear is one of the few good spaces on the internet
It must be said again: Hexbear is one of the few good spaces on the internet
Like I don't really use any other social media, but sometimes (like this past week) I venture outside of my hexbear bubble and I browse twitter, or reddit, or instagram, or tiktok, and holy shit I just browse those websites for a minute or two and feel worse about myself, worse about the world, it honestly seems like everyone on those sites is completely insufferable and every post is designed in some CIA laboratory to make me irrationally angry. Like look, sometimes we can all get annoyed at each other here, and I am no exception to that, and nowhere is perfect, but wow this place is 1000% better than like the majority of the internet, I honestly don't know how people go through life at this point browsing the regular internet.
The ironic effect of Hexbear has been to significantly reduce my time on the Internet, because almost everywhere else seems so shitty by comparison.
Same, I don't use
much anymore because I have Hexbear and Hexbear is so so so much more chill.My time spent sitting in Discord calls or scrolling for hours is significantly lower recently because somewhat ironically, the quality of posts here (outside of bad posting, DOWN with beanis) is higher so it takes less for me to be satisfied and
for a while. If not higher quality, less mentally draining or bad vibe generating. Has been good for my mental because I've spent more time doing things I actually enjoy.Shortly after I discovered Hexbear I simply stopped going on Twitter. The quality of engagement there was so low. Apart from a handful of people who were nice and based it was all smug liberals and frothing Nazis.
On Hexbear you can actually have a rewarding exchange on politics with someone. You divvy have to constantly defend the right if queer and non-white people to exist or to reach through generations of anticommunist propaganda.
This place really feels like the old internet.
Without the rampant racism, homophobia, ableism and sexism (for the most part)
It really does and I either we could convert to an old school bbs forum style
The highest compliment
I'm the old Norm, I want to have a normal time onlineThere's liberalism in my beer!
The more time I spend on the internet, the more I’m convinced that it’s so much more useless than we think
This feels like the internet away from the internet, I think because it gives me late 2010 vibes
Best described as the misfits that find each other at a party and go smoke imo. God I miss that shit, we’re in such a cyberpunk age
Best described as the misfits that find each other at a party and go smoke imo.
I would always end up in that lowkey kickback room at big parties in college.
Hexbear really is that room and the internet is one huge frat rager.
That metaphor speaks to me.
the misfits that find each other at a party and go smoke imo. God I miss that shit, we’re in such a cyberpunk age
Every day I cry for this shit. My life used to be just sitting around in the woods smoking all day. Now I just sit at the computer staring at the bleakest shit imaginable (outside of hexbear). Retvrn to stonerdom
Best described as the misfits that find each other at a party and go smoke imo.
I would always end up in that lowkey kickback room at big parties in college.
Hexbear really is that room and the internet is one huge frat rager.
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fraggles
mostly queers and commies
The internet is crashing all around us while we're like
Reject bazinga.
Embrace Queen thought.
what is queen thought?
Hey thanks, I'm trying to do my part to ruin it myself.
Down with beanis
This place legit motivates me to improve myself and I can't think of another online space as mind-opening or conducive to healthy discussion. The reputation this place gets as some kind of toxic shitpit is totally unwarranted.
Y'all keep me sane. I love this place so much. It's so nice to not have to deal with shitty fascist white racist liberal genocide apologists.
Hexbear is one of the few good spaces on the internet
There are others?
lemmygrad seems great whenever I browser via all instead of local from time to time.
Mastodon is not bad although it is Going Through It right now about how if you’re a person of color the platform is absolutely terrible because it doesn’t have any safety features. Specifically it’s the case that nobody sees the exact same set of replies to a given post so racists can hide their posts targeting PoC and the clueless white people don’t think racism exists. Then default to their midwit FOSS-splaining “if you don’t like it open a PR” as though the mastodon project hasn’t had a million discussions on this topic and leadership decided it isn’t worth solving.
CSPAM is ok, mostly (rip LF)
Merveilles seems pretty cool although I can't get an invite. The tildeverse is sick too.
Good post, I can't explain how much I love this place. Anywhere else on the internet it takes such little time until you come across some liberal/fascist take that tries to push the Overton window all the way to the Third Reich, this is a safe haven I can't do without anymore. Lemmy being a great platform also contributes a lot, but its all of you that make it what it could never be otherwise. I'm gonna really miss you people if this site gets
It really has the pre-2008 niche BBS feel to it. Very cozy and I love it.
If this is what BBS was like, I’m officially a return type for that specific thing. Way better than what is currently the norm.
Very similar vibes. What I wouldn't do for a return of those times..
As close as we're going to get in these days.
Needs more doors.
This is my only social networking anything. I like it here most of the time, and yes, it does feel free of the increasingly enshittified (and chuddified) state of Reddit and related monopolies that have swallowed up pretty much all populated forums that used to exist.
Sometimes I try to go to reddit to talk about my special interests but holy shit everyone there is so fucking dumb. It's not even politics sometimes, just terminal reddit brain and absolutely 0 media literacy. Hexbear is also the only "social media" site I've been a part of that isn't just constantly enshittified.
I went on
recently and it's just awful. I deleted my account so now I just get the common frontpage and it's just full of stale memes and "DAE le DRUMPF EVERYBODY???" All their political discourse is justCW: Bigotry
"Orange man ugly and fat and gay and fat and ugly and his wife is ugly and he is cheating on her with an ugly woman and he's fat and gay and also he looks like a lady hahahaha we're the rational left, both sides are bad! Communism on paper vuvuzela 100 billion facism Trump ugly gay Harris funny and cool and good don't you understand we have to be rational when we commit genocide and trump is stupid and ugly and fat?"
Could have given me an aneurism
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This place is great. I love my comrades
Sometimes I'll still log into Facebook. I have the Purity add-on, which deletes all the unwanted bullshit, and I still feel myself get yet more liberal with all the genetic "we just need to vote harder" posts I'm seeing. Also there's no content warning for dead animal pics (non vegans here: we really appreciate it).
Lots of terrible mod decisions done by liberals and fascists have driven me off of social media. The time I got a ban for arguing with a guy who was posting anti-immigrant and anti-Muslim stuff on
was the last straw for me there.ITS TRUE more and more people are saying it
For a POC like myself this is one of the few places on the net that doesn't have seething or overt hatred for my kind
Aight chief i'mma ask you to make a habit of being a lil more specific with your description of self, since you've got a three month account here: "For a POC"/"as a POC" never looks right, and makes me think the person saying it is cosplaying. Just my rec from me to you, if you Black, claim it with your whole chest. If it's another nationality that a peckerwood would first clock as Black, Pacific, or Indigeous, claim it with your whole chest. Get me?
✨Hexbear✨
it's magical ❤️ couldn't agree more
I like this site so much that I made an account despite not posting much anyway, I just love listening to you comrades, you guys are the realest people I have ever seen on the anonymous internet.
Took me time and courage to write this comment, I should probably go and touch grass now.
Nobody is trying to sell you something
There are no Nazis
There are no smug liberals
There is no homophobia and transphobia
The only racism there is is the background radiation you get from growing up in a racist society and even that is being minimised
There are almost no debate lords
There are nobody bragging about their perfect lives
Is Hexbear even a proper online community?
It's certainly the least rage inducing user base of any other site I visit.
induces that 'person is wrong on the internet' feeling so damn often that it's maddening.False, hexbear is just one of the least bad options. It still is a pit of misery.
agreed, I love this place
it honestly seems like everyone on those sites is completely insufferable and every post is designed in some CIA laboratory to make me irrationally angry
When you're immersed in that sort of background radiation of liberalism and chuddery you develop a resistance to it, or even the ability to tune it out. So when you go on Hexbear for a long while and your resistances to that sort of thing drop, if you try and go back on Reddit or Twitter or whatever, the little dogwhistles everywhere very quickly get to you and drive you up the wall. To the people on those sites it looks like you're totally overreacting to certain sentences or phrases or words, but you're now educated enough about these sorts of quirks that they instantly raise your blood pressure. I genuinely, physically roll my eyes whenever I see a word like "authoritarian" or "totalitarian" or "regime" now because, thanks to e.g. the Masses, Elites, and Rebels essay, I know what these libs are doing, whereas before, I could just tune it out and keep going. I know that these people are smug nationalist Americans who denounce any attempt to break free from US hegemony, rather than merely a dude harmlessly expressing their opinion on the internet.
Public chats in even the most niche video games are hellholes comparatively
This really is such a breath of fresh air.
I was just telling a lib friend tonight who said they are constantly disappointed in other people not thinking for themselves or seriously engaging with anything, that I have found this corner on the internet where I can enjoy reading the smartest most thoughtfull and well sourced takes on pretty much everything. And that it has greatly increased my life quality and mental health. It's like the discussion club I never had, even though I rarely take part. I love reading the discussions here.
Also great shitposting.
Piss
Honestly, I am used to the unpleasant feelings I receive, and I have no idea how to use this site, despite using Reddit. I often ask myself, "How do I find Discord Communities here" or "How do I ask around here". "How do I talk about my special interests?". "How do I do anything without feeling like I might step on a landmine?" I am honestly lost, but this site is good, even with my great amount of confusion.
had a crossover
love our lemmygrad comrades.