Hi all,
With regards to our recent integration into the Fediverse, it has become evident that specific rules should be outlined regarding our conduct towards it and our place in it. As such, we are making provisional amendments to the Code of Conduct in specific regard to federation as we find our footing and stake our ground as a part of the wider Fediverse ecosystem. The amendments are as such, demarcated within the dividers:
Federation
In regards to the Fediverse, a dual-pronged approach should be assumed:
Local Communities
Conduct remains as previously outlined [in the Hexbear Code of Conduct], except:
- Users visiting Hexbear should be given breathing room to inquire in good-faith about topics that seem obvious to well-trodden leftists. Assume good faith in even the most obvious of questions, except in cases where a user is explicitly acting in a combative or unreasonable manner.
- Do not ping users from other federated instances with intent to goad or mock.
- Do not directly link to comments or posts of other federated instances on public posts with intent to goad or mock.
- Disengagement rules, whilst not amended, are thoroughly emphasized regarding visiting users.
Federated Instances
Assume the conduct outlined regarding local communities, as well as:
- When in a federated instance, their rules (and their code of conduct) apply.
- Allow instances their own space for discussion, if requested implicitly or explicitly. If said discussion regards this site or its users, you are allowed to discuss said discussion within the local purview (meaning, within a Hexbear community), with regards to the rules laid out prior.
- Conduct that is deemed untenably toxic to the Fediverse and Hexbear’s standing within it (by discretion of Hexbear moderation) may be subject to reprisal, regardless of whether it is explicitly outlined.
We're thankful to the moderation and admins of the instances federated with us for their patience as we carve out our own little hole within the Fediverse. And to our beautiful posters, thank you for bearing with us in this week where decades happen 
While I love the Black Panthers and Huey P Newton, you gotta note that we aren't living in a communist society right now.
neither were the Black Panthers or Huey Newton. This isn't an excerpt about living under communism, it's an excerpt about organizing.
My read on @kristina@hexbear.net's comment is "what Newton said and did ultimately did not work, so while it's good to read and consider, it is not necessarily the best approach."
That's fair, but is there an example of a more successful social movement that took place in America's material environment (or in any material environment) that we can look to that explicitly took a stance of bullying over welcoming but firm patience and had it work out for them?
Also fair.
You kind of hit it on the head: no one knows how to build socialism in the imperial core. To me, that suggests we look at every tactic we can but take nothing as authoritatively correct.
I'd add to take nothing as completely incorrect either.
I disagree with Kristina but also HexBear is not an organizing space. In real life, there are other avenues of respect that Leftists can gain outside of our Politics as simply words. Here, words are all that there is.
Yeah I guess we can pretty much scratch everything any communist ever wrote
Nah mostly think maos advice was better
Are you referencing this comment made earlier, or are you talking about something else Mao said? I initially assumed you were talking about Combat Liberalism but I also re-read it and he doesn't mention anything that goes against the Huey quote, just that liberalism needs to be opposed.
Probably got mixed up with that other comment yeah