Hello users of Hexbear,
I wanted to make this post to inform you that hexbear will be temporarily changing to requiring an application for new users. This will stay in effect until after the upcoming pictrs version, and the development of additional mod tooling.
After many complaints mods may begin removing Yakub memes as well as any explicit comment asking a user to post hog, the difference is that while "post hog" is allowed with extreme prejudice commenting "show us your tiny penis" is not allowed, removals will be subject to moderator discretion.
In addition, we would like to reiterate that Hexbear is a space for all our comrades, even if you may not understand their experience, please refrain from labeling a fellow user a wrecker or troll. Using conditions as a pejorative is not allowed, please engage in good-faith and remember the human!
Finally I wanted to hear the user's thoughts, opinions, comments, and proposals regarding Hexbear's recent federation with other lemmy instances.
There are two mod based proposals that I wish to open voting on:
- Should we add sh.itjust.works to the hexbear.net/instances allow-list
- Should we remove lemm.ee from the hexbear.net/instances allow-list
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to vote for removing lemm.ee from the allow-list 11
Use 
to vote for adding sh.itjust.works to the allow-list 111
Use 
to vote for keeping the allow-list as is (lemm.ee on the list and sh.itjustworks off the list) 60
As always thank you to the moderators and users for making this place amazing!
Votes as of Aliveelectricwire please correct me if my count is wrong.
dunking on the libs aside and focusing purely on the answers in response, it's kinda using Cunningham's Law (the best way to get the right answer on the internet is not to ask a question; it's to post the wrong answer), because I feel like while there's obviously still discussion on this site about topics, what really gets the discussion started, and the paragraphs and sources and references to things I didn't previously know about flowing, is when a lib comes in and says something completely unhinged or incorrect
Really wish we had a huge wiki page for that kind of stuff. We could avoid having to answer and relitigate things like that.
I love your optimism but this just isn't true.
Okay let me rephrase. We would avoid some of the relitigation and answer a lot of common questions by linking the wiki.
The average Lemmy user will not read a linked article. The only way to get them to read an argument is if it’s written to them organically as a comment. A wiki could be helpful for internal use and research though. ProleWiki exists for that at least.
Is it possible to make the wiki page record how long a user has looked at a particular page? Hit them with the "great job reading 800 words in 1.3 seconds"
That’d be hilarious but would probably be too inconsistent to be worth much. It would likely require a browser cookie which many users disable/clear. Maybe someone downloads the page and views it offline (reader mode?), or they open the tab but only get around to reading it 4,000 hours later. Anything except an eyeball tracker would not work. (In before Apple VR headset replaces the ad-click payment model with eye-seconds payment model…)
It doesn't have to be that complicated. Think n-word count bot. It doesn't have to perfectly catch everyone but the threat keeps them in line.
I'm just brainstorming