malicious hexbears are taking advantage of people's trauma to turn them against the west folks (and judging by the recent survey, turning them trans too? 
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https://lemmy.world/comment/12777548 link cuz im not a lib
the comment in the screeshot is responding to @blakeus12@hexbear.net's wholesome introduction post here: https://hexbear.net/post/3631051
I made a TLDR here: https://hexbear.net/comment/5484512
i mean from my understanding the transphobe/downvote struggle session had to be at least almost as bad lol.
and good god I'm kind of glad I just thought yall were silly tankies who were kind of funny with the post hog bit back then, that sounds horrid
I spent so long in the posting mines during the multiple neopronoun struggle sessions. You'd never guess which paleopronouns were most vocal in those threads. 😄
is paleopronouns a joke for he/him? /srs
Really it's a broader joke-y term for the standard set of English pronouns, but I am particularly referencing the high proportion of he/him-tagged transphobes that were purged in the great conflagration. Now I mostly just pick at that scab to see if there are lurking #NotAllMen posters who have simply failed to show the entirety of their asses, yet.
I think there were (and to some degree still are) just a lot of performatively radical posters who could not actually bring themselves to introspect and deprogram reactionary parts of themselves. The majority of the early user base was Redditors, and the majority of Redditors are the big pink slice in the trans survey, and operating exclusively from the dominant end of cultural hegemony takes real fucking work to unwind.
Anecdotally, many cases where this introspection cracked a bunch of eggs. ⚧️
I think there are ways in which it is better now, but I definitely miss the anarchic flavor of the very early chapo.chat/hexbear community. A lot of that was probably COVID madness and isolation hornt, to be fair. Still more trans/misogyny and racist brainworms than I think most Hexbears would be keen to admit, but the purges really did set a tone that at least sets the floor of discourse a fair bit higher than most in the common social media diet.
anyone on this site who falls for a #notallmen bait post deserves to not only get banned for misogyny but also for being dumb enough to get got the by the same kind of bait I see liberal feminists use, it's like the most baby brain basic shit and also is very obviously bait, like if i ever see someone fall for a post at the level of "women would choose the bear" on a site that's supposed to have socialists that can think through things I might delete my account of embarrassment for them and as atonement for also being cis male (/hj i'm very attached to the bit for this account i dont think i would be able to bring myself to do it and I'm kinda afraid someone would immediately link me a thread with a long time hexbear user falling for it). ironically i think a bait post I would be far less embarrassed about was if that dogshit cheating thread a week and half ago (I can get the link if you need to see what I'm talking about) had been posted by someone on an alt account, i dont think the immediate story would bait anyone into a #notallmen type position but it still got a lot of hexbear he/hims to show their asses
That thread was wild. Moralism is the spectre haunting Hexbear.
oh god so people were being dumb here on hexbear?
Oh, I actually may be a Lemmy boomer and read the thread on whichever hell instance clicking through a link here and the app I use did not make that sufficiently obvious. I'll have to go find it again.
there's still hope for my account then...
That was too one-sided to really be called a struggle session, it was more like a dozen people just blatantly outing themselves as transphobes without any pretext, and after a month damn near 95% of the site agreed removing downvotes improved site functionality and reduced toxicity
that's true from what I've read, more of a purge than a struggle session lol
Uphold TransComrade69 thought! 🫡
i always stand and salute for the flag