New Hexbear Users Appreciation Post
New Hexbear Users Appreciation Post
Hexbear has been getting a lot more attention and activity as of late, and while it is very fun to dunk on the new people posting on the site in bad faith, a post to appreciate the new good faith users contributing to the site seems like a great idea.
So, what new users do you appreciate, and what should other potential new users do to get the same reception?
Hexbear appreciation comment:
My instance doesn't defederate as a general rule. It has its upsides and downsides -- I still have dbzer0 and lemmygrad, but I also have to put up with occasional bullshit from exploding heads and similar. Gotta say it's nice having you folks pop up in my feed to balance out the bad takes.
Been lurking for a few months but this is first online space I haven't gotten those fucked vibes from
I'm still getting through my list of theory so I don't feel confident joining certain conversations yet but I'd like to think being open-minded to deprogramming all the western propaganda bullshit I've ingested over a lifetime has helped me discover this community
Is there any generic "intro to Hexbear" post somewhere that I can point other people to when explaining what Hexbear is?
I think there are a lot of people on Lemmy who would fundamentally agree with most of the values held by Hexbear users, but they never give it a chance because of some bad first impression (either they are told by others that Hexbear users are all just trolls, or maybe they even get called a fascist or something like that by somebody with @hexbear in their name).
Would be great if there was some better intro. Does such a thing exist already? I tried searching but did not find anything.
Hexbear and Lemmygrad are very welcoming and enjoyable spaces. I tend to not like being on social media, and this is the one exception to that now.
Very excited to have you aboard!
No ableism
Don't forget, if you need to you can disengage from a conversation at any time, just say disengage if you ever need to, if users don't respect that they get banned on the spot o7
Please post, please ask questions, and remember
John Brown did nothing wrong unlimited bloodshed against Slave Owners
If Michael Fassbender isn’t a leftist, we can pull him left by his hog.
Finally made an account after lurking for the past few months. This community is one of the few corners of the internet that doesn't give me psychic damage. Hello, comrades, thank you for the warm welcome and for being cool people on a cool bear website.
Hexbear is a hell of a lot more based than the old /r/chapotraphouse ever was, you're all spitting fire 🌋
I'm very tempted to make an account on this instance too, much easier to just open the Local feed that way.
Welcome comrades and hopefully soon-to-be comrades.
I've had some really nice exchanges with new users and those from other instances and look forward to more and more of it.
Even those who have just dipped their toes in to ask questions and then backed out presumably because it wasn't for them or didn't like the answers - you won't read this probably but thanks for being on earnest and cool about it.
Well you for one, for making this topic, it's a good idea
Assuming you mean new users even from outside the instance, I've seen a few users from elsewhere post dune memes, and we need more duneposting
Also more generally the free software / anti-IP / linux content seems to have increased (we had comms for those of course but theirs are bigger) and that's pretty great too
Welcome to all our new friends. Pls feed me beans
New user not really contributing atm, but I found my way here from exploring lemmy and hearing all the controveries.
What I've enjoyed the most so far is seeing my preconceptions of internet leftism challenged and corrected. I checked out cth and genzedong back before reddit banned both and always thought it was simply full of antagonistic lefties who just wanted to troll libs. Honestly, it put a bad taste in my mouth and made me sad about the state of the left.
Being around here for a few days has shown me how absolutely wonderful everyone is as well as how deep conversations can go when yall have your own space free from constant lib attack. It's easy to see how I attributed the antagonism wrong and that it was simply defense against lib brigades. In hindsight, wish I would have just dug a little deeper back then and be partying with y'all since.
I've already learned so much lurking and look forward to learning more and interacting with all you beautiful people.
My only regret is that I wasn’t here sooner! I missed the CTH discord but now I’m glad to be back in the same boat
I appreciate @ewichuu@hexbear.net! She seems super cool and sweet and like she's here to listen and learn what we're about, I better not see y'all being mean to her
Hello, made an account here since the lame instance I was in only federate with other lame instances. I'm exited to post all my bad takes.
Every time a user from another instance like @Pandantic@midwest.social comes here to ask us genuine good faith questions and is clearly intellectually curious and willing to learn, it warms my heart.