I see people say this a lot, though often they speak just as fatalistically about hexbear itself, and I wonder if they are really communists if they feel like changing even a small niche on the internet that they themselves are a part of is such a completely foregone conclusion. If that's your attitude, what's the point in anything?

In my view, this is just thinly-veiled snobbery to suggest that it's not worth growing the userbase at all because everyone else is just so below us, though whether it's true elitism, an excuse to give up, or something else, I can't say. I really don't think that's an unfair phrasing of your response, and I think the problems with it are mostly obvious.

Granted, one of my differences with the majority of the userbase is that I have never once thought this community was actually functional as a safe space, it has always been ableist for reasons much more fundamental than that people use bad words and it takes active effort from a small minority of users to slowly push it in a better direction, so while I've tried to encourage making it a safer space, I could never imagine it in the terms usually presented of it being either a safe haven or an agitation platform. You can call me defeatist too that I've maybe only once in my life encountered a community that I'd say was kind of not ableist and I cannot imagine this one ever being like that, but I do believe that everywhere and everyone can at least be improved, including both us in here and the people outside.