The most aggravating thing about these is that they keep implying hexbear is a straight site that made the decision to let us be here. When they make detached from reality insults like hexchan or israel it’s easy to say ‘lol, no’. But I hate that they’re also trying to smuggle in the idea that of course it’s the straight people that are in charge of this website. Probably without even realizing it.
Personally I prefer the ones where they just call us fake queers.
You wouldn't believe some of the shit they're making up about us on the lemmyverse now that we aren't there to contradict it. According to several posts I've seen we're literal nazis who throw up swastikas for fun and hate trans people. There's been a telephone game of uncharitable interpretations and now a good percent of users have only heard about us this way and have lumped us in with 4channers such that they think we're literal nazis.
I've tried to push back against some of it in the most gentle "civil" way and gotten banned for "subverting defederation" I guess I'm not allowed to have two accounts on the lemmyverse 🤷
On the bright side, it can create a sort of backwards marketing push where people who are morbidly curious come here and then don't see any of that and are opened up to hearing our side of the story
I hope so, but there are posts on the MeanwhileOnGrad sub that are just entirely not what the content of the screenshot says, and it's left as an exercise for the reader to stretch it to painful lengths to interpret it uncharitably, yet still get overwhelming support.
My point being that this is just an example of what our representation looks like on the greater lemmysphere. The way these posts are taken uncritically as evidenced by the upvote counts and lack of challenge shows that this is more or less the standard opinion.
I’ve tried to push back against some of it in the most gentle “civil” way and gotten banned for “subverting defederation” I guess I’m not allowed to have two accounts on the lemmyverse 🤷
I’ve tried to push back against some of it in the most gentle “civil” way and gotten banned for “subverting defederation” I guess I’m not allowed to have two accounts on the lemmyverse 🤷
Anyone realize having individualist "empowering" 'filter out any user or community you want' webforum federation might just be hyper-capitalist choicemongering and not a communist way to build a website yet?
![[CW: chaser username] Hexbear: Not pro-LGBTQ+, the Israel of Lemmy instances](https://hexbear.net/pictrs/image/ecb0ac2c-5607-439f-8507-ec2eb8170ba5.png){kind=link}
The most aggravating thing about these is that they keep implying hexbear is a straight site that made the decision to let us be here. When they make detached from reality insults like hexchan or israel it’s easy to say ‘lol, no’. But I hate that they’re also trying to smuggle in the idea that of course it’s the straight people that are in charge of this website. Probably without even realizing it.
Personally I prefer the ones where they just call us fake queers.
straights are merely tolerated on Hexbear
I yearn for the moment I get banned for just being a cis white male.
You wouldn't believe some of the shit they're making up about us on the lemmyverse now that we aren't there to contradict it. According to several posts I've seen we're literal nazis who throw up swastikas for fun and hate trans people. There's been a telephone game of uncharitable interpretations and now a good percent of users have only heard about us this way and have lumped us in with 4channers such that they think we're literal nazis.
I've tried to push back against some of it in the most gentle "civil" way and gotten banned for "subverting defederation" I guess I'm not allowed to have two accounts on the lemmyverse 🤷
On the bright side, it can create a sort of backwards marketing push where people who are morbidly curious come here and then don't see any of that and are opened up to hearing our side of the story
I hope so, but there are posts on the MeanwhileOnGrad sub that are just entirely not what the content of the screenshot says, and it's left as an exercise for the reader to stretch it to painful lengths to interpret it uncharitably, yet still get overwhelming support.
https://lemm.ee/post/6746471
You might just find your own posts on there.
Feel free to let me know if you spot one of my comments there.
The comm is a ghost town run by an obsessive, I'm not worried.
My point being that this is just an example of what our representation looks like on the greater lemmysphere. The way these posts are taken uncritically as evidenced by the upvote counts and lack of challenge shows that this is more or less the standard opinion.
Sample size, sample selection. The activity is miniscule and dissenters get banned. This is just a tiny cult, not standard opinion.
You can go do a search for every instance of the word "hexbear" on other sites. It genuinely is standard opinion
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Anyone realize having individualist "empowering" 'filter out any user or community you want' webforum federation might just be hyper-capitalist choicemongering and not a communist way to build a website yet?
Memories of the great purge years back when we added pronouns lol
So many assholes outing themselves and getting banned
They should respectably call us Hex-san.