Hello users of Hexbear, there have been many changes and some drama the past few months.

The recent changes we’ve been making have been an attempt to create a more safe and welcoming environment for many demographics that have been overlooked in the past.

For any of our comrades that have been unintentionally hurt in this process, we apologise and hope to find a solution that accommodates as many people as possible while still meeting the needs of the marginalised groups who need a space like this the most.

The intent of this post is to provide a space for all users to air grievances with regard to the site. As well as provide suggestions for specific things that could be changed to address your grievance. Comments insulting the mod team or those without a specific means to address your problem may be removed. No commenter will be sitebanned, unless it clearly breaks the code of conduct.

  • transnationalmaoist@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
    21·
    1 day ago

    The whole “badposting and fake news actively harms comrades” posting is exactly what I think people need to stop. “I don’t understand this or don’t want to participate in this” is a far cry from “this is systemically harmful or reactionary.”

    Actually I think it’s more like “I don’t understand how someone could see this as harmful because I CERTAINLY DON’T so let’s keep the harmful stuff.” That’s what you sound like tbh. You fail to see how it is harmful and you’re projecting that on others and essentially gaslighting them by telling them that their concerns aren’t valid. Actually kinda toxic tbh.

    • Infamousblt [any]@hexbear.netEnglish
      27·
      1 day ago

      Okay, so let’s take it seriously. How is shit posting reactionary and actively harmful to comrades in the same way an ism or a phobia would be? Explain. I’m willing to be wrong.

      • transnationalmaoist@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
        21·
        1 day ago

        I didn’t say it’s reactionary, for one. But anyways, I literally explained it, it drowns out serious things like mutual aid. It will also discourage anyone from posting about mutual aid because they might have been drowned out by these posts in the past. They will see how their mutual aid request gets barely any traction while a “hey pooop shit fart beanis” post gets proportionally way more likes/upvotes/traffic. They might wonder if this really is a good place to seek help. Any potential comrades might be dissuaded by the literal shit in this posts. And on and on.

        • REgon [they/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
          5·
          14 hours ago

          I literally explained it, it drowns out serious things like mutual aid.

          You literally didn’t, at least not sufficiently, which is why you were asked more about it. “Serious things” like mutual aid (the only serious thing on this site, everything else is pure posting) only function because the site gets enough traffic to support it. People go here because it brings them some sort of positive emotion, and a big part of that is building a community, which requires the ability to be casual. Seeing as how you’re very serious, I can assume you do some sort of political organising, so you should be aware of this. Demanding everything to be serious all the time only makes things less effective.

        • Civility [none/use name]@hexbear.netEnglish
          10·
          22 hours ago

          A counterpoint is that people come to the site because it makes them laugh. If those posts didn’t exist the site overall would have far less traffic, the posts from people needing help would have far less eyes on them, and the people making them would get less help.