Hello users of Hexbear, we are excited to announce a batch of community creation and a call to action for anyone interested in moderating existing communities or one of the potential new ones

Below will be a list of questions for any interested moderators, in the comments will be a potential new community with the option for a user to comment a downbear under it. In the event that the community reaches a number that has a higher upbear than downbear greater than 10 it will be created.

I will be unfeaturing and locking this thread in approximately 12 hours, so far we will be making: c/theory, c/indigenous, c/fakenews, c/mycology, c/fashion, c/hobby, c/fediverse, c/librehab, c/travel, c/gamedev, c/tabletop, c/maritime. I will be asking the users who requested these communities to send in mod applications, if there is no active mod and/or no activity by the end of july they will be deleted.

While not requiring a moderator initially they will be subject to new community deletion guidelines, if a community does not have an active moderator (not an admin) and/or any activity it will be deleted. Some of our legacy communities may not be subject to this new community deletion guideline and may be locked due to inactivity or no mod team, deleted/locked communities may be restored/unlocked at a later day, if sufficient interest arises.

Going forward we will be more responsive to community creation but will be quite strict with the community deletion guideline. The reason for this shift is that we are now able to easily delete communities as well as restore deleted communities.

Off-topic comments will be removed

Either direct message me your completed application or create an Element account and send the following application to @carc0sa:chapo.chat through secure messaging.

The answers will be reviewed by the admin team, and applications will not be copied into unencrypted communication without your permission.

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!

If you are interested in contributing to the dev side of Hexbear please refer to this post:

https://hexbear.net/post/273229