Mine is being allowed to tell people to eat all my ass and hair without being banned :possum-party:

  • OfficialBenGarrison [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    Two big things:

    • 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:

    • Llituro [he/him, they/them]
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      2 years ago

      There’s also no ads on Hexbear and no annoying pop-ups everywhere.

      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.

      • HexaSnoot [none/use name]
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        2 years ago

        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.)