hexbear

On my phone I autofill my username/pw, it shows a green 'logged in' bot, but it doesn't actually log in. Desktop is fine

edit: I touched grass and it was not to my liking

I’ve never actually heard or seen someone honor such a request online or IRL, and it would sound ridiculously stilted if they did. Where is Rumpelstiltskin's coat? Rumpelstiltskin must have left it at the bar. Will someone please text Rumpelstiltskin and let Rumpelstiltskin know?

:sicko: is the format right? But when I use it in posts or comments it never works. Is it because I'm on a mobile app (jerboa)?

Me and @WithoutFurtherRelay@hexbear.net were discussing practical aspects of hosting a Space Station 13 server. In particular, we were concerned about the risks of running internet services out of our home internet connections. It pretty much advertises the locality you live in and connects any other services/activity at the same IP address to your Hexbear identity. The usual alternative is to buy some server time from someone else with an internet connection but the costs can add up to a lot if everyone is buying server time individually for their services.

Initally, we were discussing buying some server time for our own use to proxy connections to our home network to run our game server but we thought it might be more efficient and helpful for the community to make this available to everyone here who wants to run an internet service.

Basically, the idea is that instead of exposing a service on your home IP address for everyone on the internet to see, you connect to our server and it accepts connections on its own IP address for you and proxies the traffic back to your home network. So, if you want to tell someone how to access your service, all you need to give them is our server's IP address and a port.

Of course, this has little to no effect on people with a grand ability to surveil internet traffic (!fedposting) but it would expose a lot less information to other bad actors and make running internet services easier.

There would also need to be trust between the maintainers of this proxying service (who could collect the network information and traffic of the users, for example) and the users (who could use the proxy to forward malicious traffic, for example) so we thought it would be most useful if it were a community project. Maybe some of the risks could be minimized by restrictive firewall rules like not allowing users to send traffic out to the public internet unless it were a response to incoming traffic but maybe that is a feature we want?

Anyway, what does everyone think about this idea? Is it worth exploring and implementing or is it a bad idea? Sorry if I was a bit vague because I'm still thinking about the best way to implement this idea.

!yes-honey-left yes hon

This is mainly so that emotes will not be so disruptive to users on other instances. Due to how they are implemented, most of the emotes have the effect of flooding the comment sections when viewed from other instances, and due to the large amount of cross-instance posting, this is a real issue that makes even sympathetic users annoyed.

Downsizing can be done pretty effectively with an automatic script, using something standard like ImageMagick to downsize them. So, it should not be hard or timetaking for the devs to do.

This will also decrease their filesize, making them load much faster for everyone!

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/5719058

> Follow up on a previous post: [DISCUSS] Recent momentary outages > > --- > > I've been working on a simple opt-in solution, primarily for Lemmy end users like me (but also helpful for admins), to easily check the status/health of their favourite instance. > > 🌎 lemmy-meter.info > > You can find the details of the implementation in lemmy-meter github repo. > > --- > > ❓ @admins: would you be interested in adding your instance to lemmy-meter? > > You don't need to do anything except confirming - I'll handle the rest. It should only take a few minutes for your instance to show up in lemmy-meter. > > Out of the box it will send only 4 HTTP GET requests per minute to your instance. However that is totally configurable if it sounds too much or too little. > > --- > > PS: I wasn't sure how to reach out to the admins short of messaging them individually.

Sorry if this isn't the best place for this question, I browse from lemmy.dbzer0 on firefox and am subscribed to a number of hexbear instances, but there seems to be some that just won't show up from my instance for some reason? In particular !literature@hexbear.net, for whatever reason if I search it just will not show up, other hexbear instances show up fine though. I'm not sure which might not appear other than literature.

Does anyone know if this is caused by my client, my instance, or the literature community limiting it's visibility? I'm a bit new to how the fediverse infrastructure functions.

**EDIT: Thank you for the help y'all, I still haven't got to it lol, I might try FumpyAer's suggestion and maybe it will help others that might have this issue.

My answer:

When chapotraphouse was banned on reddit many mods and users came together to create a space on a link aggregator platform.

Choosing lemmy the original admin and developer team decided to fork it for various reasons. About a year ago, sustained effort was taken to upstream many of the forked features so that we could rebase with current version lemmy and federate.

Over the years hexbear has become a non-sectarian social media space for sharing news, memes, links, posts and comments with each other as the mods endeavour to make the space welcoming to marginalized people.

Terms of Service | Code of Conduct | Modlog | Allow-list | PPB

!creepy@hexbear.net I like paranormal stuff and I know a thing or two about that subculture, even if I am a fence sitter and not fully a believer in the paranormal. Bigfoot is real tho.

I was pretty excited to see where that comm went and learn some stuff about cultures and philosophies I'm not familiar with. Just curious about two things I guess: Why was it created in the first place, and what changed to cause it to be deleted?

Would you like to see partnerships of lemmygrad/hexbear with leftist internet personalities for projects and events to bring leftists together and act as a common platform for a united and more accessible internet left?

vote/comment your thoughts!

just made a new account and I noticed you don't get to pick pronouns until after your account is made

I feel like it would make wreckers mald when trying to sign up for an account, and I think would be good practice in general. Alternatively, seeing a [none/use name] on a fresh account is sometimes a good wrecker signal.

On mobile, I get a white screen with a server error, and on laptop the screen just gives the spinning bear. Opening other people's posts works fine

AM I SHADOWBANNED? MODS MODS HALP!

I can post a screen if needed of the mobile server error, but there's no real details or codes. Nothing interesting on desktop so won't bother with that. Am I the only one here? Also, yeah, cleared cache on both devices.

When trying to report I get a 400 error with the following JSON response { "error": "couldnt_create_report" }

The JSON sent in the request was { "auth": "[auth_token]", "comment_id": [numerical_id], "reason": "[reason]" } which seems about right.

If you check out lemm.ee and lemmy.ml you can see that we have a bulk of ~100 hexbear upvoters on new pushing socialist content to the top of the feeds. By banning reactionaries, they lose this bulk of upvotes and comments that make their reactionary posts relevant (despite being controversial). I've even noticed a shift in instances not federated with hexbear posting more socialist leaning content due to this influence.

The tankie cabal stays winning

During the brief time DroneRights was active on the site, DroneRights was treated, by default, in bad faith and as a wrecker, even by moderators. Very first post made by DroneRights, (where it references its experiences as someone with NPD) First comment responding tells it to “fuck off” and that narcissist is not a slur. DroneRights defended how it feels narcissist is a slur, and then the next comment was “I have literally never heard or seen it used that way. Edit: new account, good troll” A statement that Thus begins the saga of DroneRights, and the half of the userbase that treats it like a troll that couldn’t possibly be real because what it talks about is nothing the users here have ever heard about. And just to be clear, ableist slurs are commonplace on this site. Incredibly common everyday words, phrases, and most intelligence or sanity-based insults come from medical words for disabilities. I would imagine a lot of users would be upset if ND users started insisting, we never used words like “stupid”, because they are so commonplace. But if someone with NPD tells you that using Narcissism as an insult is hurtful and dehumanizes those who have NPD, then don’t speak over them.

Now, DroneRights is an interesting user. I, like most of you, did not know much about anything DroneRights talked about in its posts. From how I see it, DroneRights has been ridiculed for its beliefs, its disabilities, and its gender since it started being open about its gender online. It tried talking about its experiences with neurodiversity and its gender on several instances before posting on hexbear at all, making a new account after being doxxed on its old one. Every instance treated DroneRights in bad faith, invalidated and belittled it, and it comes to hexbear where “we love our trans neurodivergent comrades!!” and it instantly gets treated like someone so unfamiliar and so unbelievable that DroneRights couldn’t possibly be real or valid.

This is the shit we have a thousand dunk tank threads about. Libs saying hexbear users are bots, or not really trans, or paid shills, anything they can say instead of doing some self-crit or considering the experiences of other people. Except now we are doing it, while claiming to be a welcoming, shining beacon of inclusivity. Now, even if you wrongly think DroneRights could not possibly be genuine in the posts it made, I would briefly like if the readers of this post looked at DroneRights post history for a moment, and interpret its posts giving the benefit of the doubt that should be given to someone with NPD, autism, a lack of communication skills, who does not fully understand left wing politics like you might. Take how it interprets its gender seriously, without assuming it is a troll. And look at how users on this site respond to what it says.

https://hexbear.net/u/DroneRights?page=1&sort=Old&view=Overview

Okay, assuming you looked for a little over 5 minutes, you have probably seen some hurtful exclusionary shit said to DroneRights out of bad faith assumptions. The mod log is similarly bad, if you believe that ND users shouldn’t be seen instantly as trolls or worthy of being banned for a couple bad takes, or for communication problems. These takes are entirely understandable for DroneRights to have, given how it views itself as a non-person. Especially noteworthy, is how DroneRights post got removed and bad faith comments were made towards it (initially, got restored later) in the dedicated comm for neurodiversity, with rules dedicated to not making bad faith assumptions about other peoples experiences. In The rest of the site without those rules, it faced constant ridicule and mistreatment. Saying DroneRights had “bad, wrecker vibes” without attempting to understand DroneRights is ableist, and so is labeling DroneRights as a wrecker when its actions could easily be interpreted as a good faith ND user who isn’t quite as aware of Marxist theory unlike other users. Even if for some reason some bad faith troll decided to learn and lie about the experiences DroneRights has had with its gender and how its NPD has changed how it views itself, the normal standards of engagement on this site should not be one where ND users, and users in general should be invalidated like that. Now, the problem of ableism and bad faith assumptions about posts is a very complicated one. Let me first address our site culture of struggle sessions, hostility, and bad faith assumptions. Threads frequently devolve into arguments and dogpiling, often on established users who make comments or posts with no intention of rudeness. The solution to this problem of hostility by hexbear? Don’t talk about it. If drama is brought up, even if its very important or relevant to the site, it is removed. There used to be containment comms in UserUnion and c/Strugglesession. They got removed about three months ago. I never heard about any new place to talk about the site, the code of conduct still tells users to post at userunion, so unless a user looks a little harder and tries to find whatever comm “meta” posts are allowed in, criticism looks purposefully ignored. A cool soviet propaganda poster once said, “Kill it at the Root.” Most struggle sessions either wouldn’t have happened, or been a lot less toxic, if there were sitewide rules saying that “if a user posts something that seems unintentionally harmful or reactionary, ask them what they meant by that comment. Don’t immediately go on the attack. Behave in good faith, and don’t assume the worst from posters by default “

Now, this potential solution obviously increases moderator workload and would make genuine ill-intentioned trolls harder to get rid of, but compared to previous moderation policies, if implemented properly, it would give many users the safe, welcoming space they desire from the site. Now, Hexbear itself has had a rocky start, with issues of inclusivity and toxicity since the beginning. The solution for the past few years? Ban anyone you can label as a liberal! I don’t really have an issue with the initial ban of those labeled transphobic. Were some well-intentioned ND users banned in the process? Probably. But the site is much better without blatant transphobia. The issue is that the policy of banning on the pretenses of “seems like a liberal” or “has a take I don’t agree with” is really only fitting on clear, black and white issues like trans rights. Now, admittedly, a lot of left wing issues are black and white, but not all of them are, and having a bad take on an issue or believing in common misconceptions doesn’t mean a user is malicious or harmful, and the policy of banning “sus” accounts over not having all the facts or not communicating properly is actively communicating that the policy is: that it is ok to ban ND users regularly and make it so those who don’t get banned are constantly worried about it, as long as it gets rid of liberals. When you say “Embrace TC69 thought” what you are advocating for is sacrificing good faith users and the ND community so that liberals are banned quicker. Of course, I’m not the first person to criticize the site on this. Two or so years ago, the site had a lively and welcoming Neurodiverse mod team dedicated to making their comm a great place for ND users to talk, but with the site’s constant hostility, struggle sessions, ND users often got unjustly banned outside of the comm, and those who did not felt like they could be banned at any moment without understanding what they did wrong. When ND users and the mod team representing them asked for users to be unbanned or for site policy to change to be more inclusive to ND users, they were frequently not being listened to. After around a year of moderating and advocating for ND users, (often with no results), an incident where a well-known user made an “I’m leaving post” targeted at an ND user who criticized them. The user was immediately banned, the ND mod team had to fight hard to convince the mod team that they didn’t deserve to be immediately banned for a tiny incident that was not intended to be hurtful, and after convincing the mods to unban the user, they were promptly re-banned by another site mod with no explanation given, and the consequences of that event and the feelings of mistreatment by the mod team prior in combination with that, led to most of the ND team leaving the site completely. The comm has seemingly had little to no leadership since in the past 2 years, and this important history of the site is largely forgotten about.

ND users need a voice, and ableism needs to be discussed and acknowledged to be a problem in this community. Discussion on ableism or ND inclusivity on the Neurodiverse comm should not be removed, especially if the conversation is civil.

[@Egon@hexbear.net](https://hexbear.net/u/Egon

Has expressed a desire for tone indicators like /s to be normalized and encouraged on the site, which I would agree with. Having /s and other tone indicators would help users with interpreting comments in they way they are intended, and /s being from reddit is not a good enough reason to not use it.

As for what I want to see from the site to be more inclusive to ND users, rules such as ““if a user posts something that seems unintentionally harmful or reactionary, ask them what they meant by that comment. Don’t immediately go on the attack. Behave in good faith, and don’t assume the worst from posters by default “and “do not talk over ND comrades about things you have not experienced” are rules I would want to be enforced site wide.

The most important thing is to acknowledge these issues in our community and address them. Inclusivity of ND comrades should be just as important as other issues the site makes a priority. If one of the main concerns with our site is losing the safe space that hexbear has.

Hey! I sometimes have a hard time parsing tone over text. It seems to me others do as well, since I've seen a bunch of people commenting on the levels of irony on hexbear.

While we're all supportive of tone clarifiers, we don't want to use /s because that would turn this instance into Reddit. I sometimes think that sentiment is silly, but I can see where it's coming from and in general I agree with it.

I would however like to ask that we implement a rule so that the question "is this a bit/are you being sarcastic?" Has to be answered with honesty, if the person asked answers. Like you don't have to answer, but if you do you have to be honest.

Admins are probably already working on it, heads up just in case.

Lots of ppl in the “stay with .ee/hook up with shit” thread said everything is fedi drama. They’re not wrong.

There’s a new kind of posting in the air and it’s suffused everything. It must be given space to grow without interfering with the other posts.

If we had a lemmydrama and/or a lemmydunks comm and quarantined that stuff there it would allow for avoidance of fediverse stuff and give space for lemmy drama and dunking culture to develop.

Thedunktank is for non-fediverse shit. Twitter, Facebook, etc. it should stay how it is.

It wouldn’t stop the problem of federation stealing our posting energy but it’s a start to help people who don’t want to see the new hotness lib of the week.

Pic unrelated.

I have tried a few of the lemmy apps and most can't login due to some form of API/connection error, connect for lemmy I did get to login with but I can't do anything like vote on a post or post a comment or subscribe to a community (things which I assume use the API)

Are there any apps that do work? is the API disabled on hexbear for some reason?

Known issue (#1882) lol ignore. Serves me right for not checking first. No action taken on it, though.

I finally ran into a post that had too many things that were well-meaning but just incredibly stupid, ahistorical and incorrect, and I didn't feel like going through the entire thing and correcting it point-by-point.

This is what federation has done to me. Are you happy, mods?

We've known each other for a decade and he consumes a lot of common history sources like BBC documentaries, Behind the Bastards, Hardcore History etc... he's well meaning but very lib, and an expat from TERF Island.

He wanted podcast recommendations so I sent him "Blowback". He is very excited to listen to it.

I almost feel bad, but someone had to tell him.

Thought I’d wait a few weeks to see if it would sort itself out.

I'm browsing from lemmygrad via jerboa and every hexbear post/comment/user profile that has an image in it is broken for me. Anyone else experiencing this?

It’s my fathers, and I’m just now realizing I’m only here due to American imperialism lol

I've noticed any time I try to share a picture with your instance it is filtered and replaced with *removed externally hosted image*. Seems a fairly stifling design choice, if federation is gonna be successful. Why won't you let me love you?

Thank you

going to test image sizing in the comments, fr please ignore

how much more should we do to ratio libs on lemmy?

I just started my bot @LesbianHexbearSupercharger@hexbear.net; and it's begun subscribing to a ridiculous amount of communities. This is important because in order for a federated community to appear in the all page one member of the local instance must subscribe to that community. Some new communities I can already see are /c/UnixPorn and /c/SelfHost. Posts might take a while to populate, though, as these are new communities Hexbear hasn't yet seen

Thanks to @Char@mander.xyz for the advice in this thread.

Please note, hornyposters, that I've disabled subscribing to NSFW communities. !volcel-kamala

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originally posted here: https://hexbear.net/comment/3702575

I slapped together a userscript to auto-collapse comment chains made by users not from hexbear.net or lemmygrad.ml. Hope this helps people who aren't happy about federation to not have to see the eye-wateringly bad takes (I recommend combining this with setting your defaults to browse posts by Local and Hot to not see posts from other instances and not use the struggle-session sort aka Active). You can use it by installing the TamperMonkey/ViolentMonkey extension in your browser and then creating a new script and copy/pasting the following into it:

``` // ==UserScript== // @name Lib Blocker // @namespace http://tampermonkey.net/ // @version 0.1 // @description Block federated users on hexbear.net // @author YearOfTheCommieDesktop // @match https://hexbear.net/* // @icon https://www.google.com/s2/favicons?sz=64&domain=tampermonkey.net // @require https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/gh/CoeJoder/waitForKeyElements.js@v1.2/waitForKeyElements.js // @grant none // ==/UserScript==

function processComment(comment) { var link = comment.querySelectorAll('a[title="link"]'); if (link.length >= 2 && (!link[1].href.includes("hexbear.net") && !link[1].href.includes("lemmygrad.ml"))) { comment.querySelector('button[aria-label="Collapse"]').click(); } return true; } ```

CharGPT doesn’t seem to know

It just shows "Server error" on a white page for me

I am curious though. How are you different from lemmygrad?

Happy Federation 111