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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.

  • CARCOSA [they/them]A
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    11 months ago

    If you are willing to mod the community, could you fill out a short mod questionnaire via hexbear DM or matrix DM.

    Application

    What is your Hexbear username?

    Do you have any preferred pronouns?

    What are your thoughts on capitalism?

    What are your thoughts on imperialism?

    What are your thoughts on trans rights?

    What are your thoughts on racial justice?

    What do think about current and previous protests around the world?

    What are your thoughts on Veganism and Animal Liberation?

    Do you have any experience with other leftist online communities? What did those experiences teach you?

    What is your approach to moderation, and how do you work with teams?

    How do you deal with online drama and people who try to start things for the sake of it?

    What current comms would you be interested in moderating? Do you have any ideas for community engagement?

    What is your general time availability? (Time zone, amounts, common browsing times, etc)

    Element information

    Element is a messaging app that lets you talk to people over the Matrix protocol.

    To get started, check out this link, where you can choose to either download Element for your platform or, if on a computer, open it in a browser ("Launch Element Web").

    The instructions that follow are for the desktop application and the web application, but the process is similar on all apps:

    Press "Create Account" We host our own Matrix server, so if you want you can change matrix.org to chapo.chat. This is completely optional; users who sign up with a matrix.org username can still talk to people with chapo.chat username. (Note: It is chapo.chat, not hexbear.net. Also, registrations aren't always open on chapo.chat; if they're not, just create an account on matrix.org) Fill in a username and password Hit register, and you're done!

    • Infamousblt [any]
      ·
      11 months ago

      I will do this today. If anyone else wants to mod this comm, they go through the same process? I don't want to mod it alone...that wouldn't be very hexbear-polyam of a comm to only have one mod!