The constant harassment and abuse from speciesist reactionaries is what drove us off. But mentioning that part would ruin the narrative that vegans are the bad guys

Reminder: https://archive.ph/Xl1Kd

  • pocket_tofu [she/her,fae/faer]
    hexagon
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    1 year ago

    My favorite part is the unrelenting narrative building of vegans as problematic and dramatic, and if we try to counter that, you all pour into a comm where you're explicitly not allowed to post to put us in our place. God forbid we ever once speak up when y'all shit talk us

    • StewartCopelandsDad [he/him]
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      edit-2
      1 year ago

      the problem is hexbear.net shows "all" by default, not "subscribed". carnists aren't subscribed and don't realize that this sub has rules

        • StewartCopelandsDad [he/him]
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          1 year ago

          Well yeah but the easiest solution would be to prevent oblivious carnists from coming here in the first place. It gives them a chance to learn, which is good, but I have little appetite to teach them.

      • Hatandwatch [she/her, comrade/them]
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        1 year ago

        hexbear.net don't ostracize and harass a minority group for standing up for themselves, regardless of comm rules, challenge: impossible

        • StewartCopelandsDad [he/him]
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          1 year ago

          I'm not big on that individual responsibility shit. Let's get an easy structural fix: make it show "subscribed" by default when you're logged in.

          • booty [he/him]
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            1 year ago

            how about just removing reactionaries from this site?

            • StewartCopelandsDad [he/him]
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              1 year ago

              you let me know once you figure out how to purge nonvegans from hexbear. In the meantime this UI change is so obvious that I think it counts as a bug. Frustrating to get this amount of pushback from other vegans.

              • booty [he/him]
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                1 year ago

                you let me know once you figure out how to purge nonvegans from hexbear.

                well there are a bunch of them shitting up this thread as we speak. turn those comment removals into bans. it's not hard.