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
Use 
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.
I'm not really sure how to use these emojis and don't think I should have a vote in this decision as my account is 3 hours old at this point.
But I hope hexbear keeps federations open as I first got exposed to it on lemm.ee
I think I have found my place and I think more lemmy users should have the opportunity to do the same.
If you hover/long press the emoji you'll be able to see its name. Then type a colon and immediately after start typing the name, like :emoji-name, and a little autocomplete menu will pop up and once you type enough to see the emote you want you can pick it there. Or there should be a little emoji icon near the text box, that has a spot where you can search and pick it there instead. They can both take a minute to load the pictures so you might have to be patient with it.