I nor the mod team are at the place of giving up on trying to resolve the contradiction without ceding to one side or the other as i would encourage anyone who doesn’t like the shitposting side to make a lemmygrad account.

So I already explained what should be done (make those comms invisible by default, i.e. make them op-in) and I explained why this must be done: because it causes direct harm to comrades looking for mutual aid by drowning out their posts. AND THE MUTUAL AID COMM IS ON HEXBEAR, NOT LEMMYGRAD FFS. If the mods can take certain stances on certain topics, for ex luigi lionizing, then they can certainly take a stand on dumb shit like these low effort comms.

We have in the code of conduct that we are not a mental health service, but I think that a safe space to open up about the silly, non-serious sides of ourselves is a healthy thing, besides if you don’t like it you can block the community or use the subscribed view this allows people to see what hexbear is about at first look and then curate to their tastes if need be.

Again I explained that many, possibly most, people who browse the site are not logged in and thus are forced to see this shit (sometimes posts about literal shit). Did you actually read what I wrote?

Also the whole “actually iF YoU reAD the COde of ConDUCT” thing reminds me of how libs would defend Biden/Kamala by saying “actually if you read the policy proposal on the web site you would see that they are very committed to XYZ.” In other words, please don’t insult us with this cop out “if you read the manual” answer. Who reads that? Please think about this seriously and don’t use the lib “read the fine print” shit. It’s insulting.

badposting and power-posters are a part of the site culture and I personally would rather keep that than give that up for the sake of more people

And if this site culture actually does harm? As I explained before? I surely can’t think of other times the “culture” of a place hasn’t harmed ppl (/s). You literally posted this thread as a meta to air grievances, and when I pointed out that some of them are basically hand-waved away, you then proceeded to do exactly that. SMH.

I would say based on the popularity of badposting that most people on the site would disagree but I’m open to being wrong.

Yeah I mean McDonald’s, right wing podcasts, and a whole slew of toxic shit is “popular” so it disappoints me to see this being used as a justification. And I know for a fact that the mods will shut down “popular” discussion if it goes against what they believe in (again look at the luigi struggle session)

I must say I’m disappointed by your response. It seems like the mods and power posters are indeed one big clique and if you’re not in it, then you’re an outsider who has to justify their grievances (only to be shit on). Sad indeed.