Does Hexbear mandate all users to specify their preferred pronouns?

I just checked and those rules are wild.

Posting a picture of a slice of cheese without a NSFW tag and a content warning is bannable but calling violence against large groups of people isn't.

Holy hell that sounds like a parody community made by 4chan.
- Yep and like 4chan It’s full of Russian propaganda. Just look at how many of their posts reference Ukrainian Nazis.
Cheese?
- It appears to be a rule against posting food made from animal products. As someone who doesn't eat animal products myself, I don't particularly enjoy scrolling Reddit or Lemmy and seeing a picture of a meat dish, but it doesn't ruin my day I would never dream of demanding a content warning for it.
  To my knowledge CWs are geared towards content that has the potential to trigger past trauma, and I can't understand how a food category could be so broadly traumatic to someone (outside of EDs I guess, which is obviously not the focus of this rule).
I just don't understand them. The users I mean.
- We are a platform that welcomes anyone who wants to be here in good faith. With that said, we are also an intentionally leftist platform; conservative and reactionary ideologies will not be tolerated here.
  They live in an idolgical bubble where contrary opinions are not tolerated, and dissent is shunned. The only voices they hear are leftist and extreme leftist voices shifting the Overton window of politics in their minds leading to radical beliefs.
  It's important to have your beliefs challenged at times, they lack that. If you can try and listen to voices from opposing view points, maybe even share your own in a respectful manner.
  (This isn't an issue particular to any side of politics, it also occurs in more right wing groups)
Good. Fuck all fascists. The allies who fought in WWII were heroes, and the farmers who rape cows are villains. This is a consistent ideology.

I believe they do, yes. It's done to out anti-trans people, making them easy to spot as they complain loudly about being forced to.

rare hexbear W
- I mean, it's unverifiable and unenforceable. Personally, I wouldn't sign up for anything that requires identifying myself like that. I can just look at someone's comment history to see if they're strongly pro or anti tolerance. As it stands, this has as much value as as North Korea calling themselves democratic.
what if I honestly dgaf and prefer that people call me whatever they want?
- "Any" is probably fine. It tends to be my choice. That said, you're better off just not using Hexbear. Ya know, unless you're chill with things like genocide.
- It's pretty common for hb users to have "any/all" or "none/username". It's not a hindrance.
- Then you put that I guess.
- they/them I guess.
Until some random doxes people.
You'd think, after seeing bitching posts about privacy one after the other folks would be concerned.
Suddenly I like a hexbear policy!
- Steps 2 and 3 involve denying several genocides and then calling for genocides based on skin color and global locality.
- Even a broken clock is right twice a day, I guess.

In their general rules:

Any pictures of food containing animal products, including but not limited to meat, cheese, or egg, must be tagged nsfw along with food discussion content warnings (CW: Food).

Animal Liberation is essential to any leftist movement, including platforms like Hexbear. Volunteers, comments, and posts, should not be anti-vegan, although users and volunteers are not required to be vegan.

Wow. Just wow. That is so far beyond leftist.

It's like if Fox News was to create a leftist website. It smells so fake.
- Oh they would try if it could make more money.
I don't know, you see a cow being shot and cut up, it's NSFW. You put some parsley on it, it's now food.
- Yeah. That's how that works
That's so far left, it's behind
- They're transphobic? That's almost as bad as being vegan! /s But seriously, I hadn't known that.
Maybe we should be putting people into cages and harvest and sell their organs.... I mean why not ? It's not like humans are different from animals ¯ (ツ) _/¯
- Well, I'm so glad you volunteered! ... No, really. Very glad. Right this way...

It's part of the signing up process. I've seen people without them, but it's very rare. There's probably a grace period.

What if my preferred pronouns are to not have any?
- None/use name seems to be an option aswell
- Shadow the Hedgehog.
- How should people refer to you in the third person? It's okay to use one's name as the preferred pronoun.
That is odd. I usually prefer when people talk with me instead of about me.
- No one's talking about you
- I'm sorry, I don't understand what you mean in relation to what I said.
- I usually prefer when people talk with me instead of about me.
  Sorry if you didn't want to know, but: you can't get rich that way.

Yes

They're a satire of failed marxist extremists that hate everyone and everything. Just block them and move on.

I don't paint with such a broad brush. I welcome differing opinions on my social media feed.