Banned? DM Wmill to appeal.
No anti-nautilism posts. See: Eco-fascism Primer
Slop posts go in c/slop. Don't post low-hanging fruit here.
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.
See, I didn't know that and randomly picked sdf.org when some of the other instances were having tech issues and growing pains. It quickly became my "primary" account and in all this drama I've learned that I was very lucky in my pick. I definitely appreciate the viewpoints I see from hexbear users.
love seeing allies from other instances. 
You guys are the cool commie friends I wish to have, and I'm sad I haven't met you guys before. Such a happy place to get some ~~GOOD OL' MURICAN~~ freedom from all the lib crap we endure daily ❤️✨
I’ve learned a lot from lurking the unfettered conversation that happens here, subjects that I’ve never heard of discussed in great detail. The shitposting is next level. Just a great mix of leftie content here. Also, the site logo is fire.
im gay lol
Woooow how original, a gay hexbear. Sheesh, get some new material
spoiler
jk I love all my comrades, gay, trans, bi, and (may I be forgiven for uttering such profanity) straight
Uhhhh…. I’m gay Obama….. and uhhhh….. let me be queer
based 
braver than the troops
Gotta say I have much enjoyed my time here so far
No weird socially conservative "communism"
No state department brained liberal "socialism"
Only good takes and unironically based people
No weird socially conservative “communism”
this is a subset of the western leftist they attack. i know this is counterintuitive. they're basically a subset of breadtubers who play antihero / heel roles
they do a great job of making "NATOids" feel good about themselves
jackson hinkle was recruited by tulsi gabbard a US military psyops person
We don’t talk about Maupin
when a hexbear spots liberals and nazbols
It’s surprisingly hard to find a place that doesn’t veer into patsoc silly reaction or radlib ignorance. I’ll even put up with a bunch of leftcoms or anarchists or anything by else as long as they are anti-imperialist and don’t make one of the two errors above
Welcome the
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
I wish hexbear had gone with the name lib.rehab, because finding this place has done so many wonders for getting the worms out of my brain
Don't feel like you can't join conversations because you don't have all the theory down comrade. We've all got plenty gaps in our knowledge and people are pretty cool about explaining things if required.
Sometimes the best discussions are kept going and reach greater depths because someone asks an 'obvious' question or contributes a 'basic' point, too. The simple shift in perspective can help everyone to see things from a different angle, which is hard to do even if it's the crux of diamat. And we all learn when a question or contribution prompts an even more knowledgeable comrade to swing by with more theory, etc.
Yeah absolutely.
Just make sure to qualify your statements and ask questions in earnest. I appreciate they aren’t making declarations without investigation
pls be the real lebron
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.
seconding you go to c/askchapo. the gist of it though is that if we smell a hint of reaction in anything you say, the knives, guns, and attack owls come out. otherwise hexbear is kinda very cuddly and a great place for lgbt users, it has some of the most heavy-handed anti-queerphobe moderation ive ever seen on an online space, it mimics the more radical elements of an irl pride event very well. well over 50% of the mod and admin team are queer of some kind at this point and a good number are trans (me included, i mod c/traa). the mod team also takes nsfw tags and content tags for handling violence against women more serious than any space ive seen on the internet outside of maybe news sites that have the default shocking content label.
i don't know of anything like that. could ask on c/askchapo or ask people at the general megathread
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 
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.
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.
If Michael Fassbender isn’t a leftist, we can pull him left by his hog.
Hijacking this for a question: What is a struggle session? /gen
struggle sessions on hexbear are when there's a large disagreement on a specific subject and arguments ensue. It's not a struggle session if it's everyone ganging up on one lib or chud, it's only one if it's more of a 50-50 split in the community. Usually it resolves by mods locking the thread but sometimes it spreads to other threads. We don't allow sectarianism so its not usually a struggle session between say anarchist and marxists, but instead on some single issue.
I was just reading David Priestland's "The Red Flag" and came across a mention of the Chinese "struggle sessions" in Maoist China, and I have to say I chuckled a bit at the dark humor of this usage
Thank you! Do you happen to know an example of a topic which caused a struggle session?
Past examples include silly topics such as whether or not bidets are bourgeois, to more serious topics such as Xinjiang or Ukraine crisis. Everything from outdoor cats vs. indoor cats, veganism, use of controversial terms/phrases
Thanks for the explanation, I feel like I am ready for my own struggle session. Critical support for the vegan patrol! /hj
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.