I can feel myself becoming a better person. I have a lot of reactionary bullshit drilled into my head, but I finally found a place where I can unlearn it benignly. This includes some deep pessimism about the state of the world. It's weird to say, but a social media site has had a positive effect on my mental health. I'll log off if the dark cloud comes back, but after about a year of lurking, I'm feeling better just knowing I'm not the only leftist out there.
The layout, this is more like the old school sites where you have to interact more to get more content: no infinite scroll. There's also no ads on Hexbear and no annoying pop-ups everywhere. I'd say Hexbear is doing a fine job with it's mission of making the internet weird again. I cannot thank the Hexbear team enough for having a fully de-gentrified website.
TL;DR: Puter finally is doing something good :meow-hug:
There's no ads on China's official news site, People's Daily. Neither does another Chinese news site Sixth Tone. Both are funded by the CPC.
There's also an ad-free Hong Kong-based news site called Friday. Chinese news, but mostly focused on Hong Kong. (Haven't checked this one out much, but the few articles I've read on there were cool reads.)
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I can feel myself becoming a better person. I have a lot of reactionary bullshit drilled into my head, but I finally found a place where I can unlearn it benignly. This includes some deep pessimism about the state of the world. It's weird to say, but a social media site has had a positive effect on my mental health. I'll log off if the dark cloud comes back, but after about a year of lurking, I'm feeling better just knowing I'm not the only leftist out there.
The layout, this is more like the old school sites where you have to interact more to get more content: no infinite scroll. There's also no ads on Hexbear and no annoying pop-ups everywhere. I'd say Hexbear is doing a fine job with it's mission of making the internet weird again. I cannot thank the Hexbear team enough for having a fully de-gentrified website.
TL;DR: Puter finally is doing something good :meow-hug:
Now that you mention it, I think this is the only site I visit that doesn't trigger anything on uBlock. This and marxism.org.
There's no ads on China's official news site, People's Daily. Neither does another Chinese news site Sixth Tone. Both are funded by the CPC.
There's also an ad-free Hong Kong-based news site called Friday. Chinese news, but mostly focused on Hong Kong. (Haven't checked this one out much, but the few articles I've read on there were cool reads.)
Its nice to know you are getting better, ben garrison