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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.