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In my experience there is a great deal of overlap between the polyamory community and a lot of our communities, so I'm sure we have at least some Hexbears that are interested. Also in my experience most polyamory communites online are full of cis straight white people trying to find out how they can find a cis queer woman to use as a toy...knowing full well that is NOT what any polyamorous Hexbears would be interested in discussing, I think this community could add a lot of value to the fediverse by being a different voice than the typical heteronormative polaymory communites, and help drive traffic to Hexbear and to the fediverse on the whole among people who are looking for a geninuely safe space to discuss polyamory. There aren't many, at least not that I'm aware of. All of the healthy polyamory communites I know of are offline, it would be nice to try to foster a healthy and safe one online too.

I'd be willing to mod it unless someone more experienced would like to volunteer, in which case please volunteer, and maybe teach me the ropes, or just take the project on yourself if you don't think I should be a part of it.

Anyway, open to feedback on this, maybe Hexbear is a bad place for it, maybe most Hexbears are monogamous and so nobody really would get value out of it, or maybe lots of people have been wishing we had this.

  • aaro [they/them]
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    7 months ago

    Here are the existing options:

    https://lemmyverse.net/communities?query=polyam

    !nonmonogamy@lemmy.world is obviously out, !polyamory@feddit.de probably isnt leftist, and !polyamory_alberta@lemmy.ca might be regional and also probably isn't leftist. !relationshipanarchy@slrpnk.net and !polyamory@lemmygrad.ml both seem dead. Hexbear's intentional comm creation method seems to avoid dead comms better than just letting users make their own comm whenever. On paper a decent idea? There's obv the adult stuff that might get wrapped up in that so it'd require care, so maybe that's something to watch, but seems like a decent idea?

    e: we're explicitly blocked on slrpnk.net che-laugh

    e2: we're also explicitly blocked on all of lemmy.world, lemmy.ca, and feddit.de - seems kinda not great 😬

    • Infamousblt [any]
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      7 months ago

      Thanks. Good to see there really aren't any existing options on the fediverse that would be safe for the kind of community that Hexbear works hard to foster.