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When you resume could you please add me to the list so I can feature the post faster, thank you
Could you please add me to the list so I can feature the post faster, thank you
Could you please add me to the list so I can feature the post faster, thank you
I really want to try and make a post for users to communicate this to us so we can make a concrete plan for remedying this, I'm talking to the !neurodiverse@hexbear.net and !disabled@hexbear.net mods on the best way to go forward. Thanks for the comment
Be that as it may I'll talk with the !neurodiverse@hexbear.net and !disabled@hexbear.net mods/users to explore making a discussion post on what the mod team could do better to support our ND comrades and combat ableism.
Thanks for the comment
cross-posted from: https://toast.ooo/post/8294109
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Unfortunately the modlog is so busy and full of activity I don't have the time or focus to wade through it at this time but if you could provide more specific examples I'll talk them out with you.
Again this is why our standard practice is to defer community level moderation to that community's moderators. I've also told you this many times before but you really should make an alt to post/comment with while reserving this account for admin-level engagement.
That's fine you don't need to interact any more I'll go ahead and lock this post. Did you not assume bad-faith when you posted the meme in the first place? I would say you and your fellow instance users laughing about the comment section indicates a lack of good-faith.
It isn't invading when a post reaches 
I apologize for not locking it sooner, but I still don't understand how you are being gaslit. It is true you did not disengage in advance, as if you had included your intent to not engage in argument within the post body, locked the post yourself, requested a hexbear admin to lock the post, or changed the community to local only then you would be disengaging in advance as well as exercising your coping mechanisms in a proactive way.
You are aware of your own compulsions, you are aware of hexbear, you are aware of the impact the post would have and yet you did not do anything until the large amount of hexbear activity began after the post reached the top of the active/all post sort.
When that started you again did not do anything other than individually disengage from users that presented arguments you weren't prepared to discuss despite the availability of mod tools that would have coped with your compulsion as well as limited the post's activity.
I don't dispute that it's your space but I do dispute the claim of ableism because you were not targeted or discriminated against for your condition, another neurodiverse person called you out for using your neurodiversity as a shield when you have ample means by which to proactively protect yourself and yet you choose not to use them so that you could have fun riling up Hexbear.
You claimed as much regarding your comment about making similar posts about liberals however since .worlders did not come with concrete, evidence based arguments you did not feel the need to use your coping mechanisms.
ProfesserOwl is not questioning your neurodiversity or your coping mechanisms they are calling you out for excusing your behavior with your neurodiversity.
Ableism would have been to dismiss your arguements as false due to your neurodiversity, instead the commenters engaged with the content of your post and comments. Not one single hexbear has stated you are inferior for being neurodiverse or requiring coping mechanisms for your compulsions. You were called out for being disingenuous with your intent by appearing to be open to discussion but in reality were just wanting to shitpost.
Since you were also engaged in heated, hostile, sectarian arguments it is understandable that those who you were arguing with would return such sentiment. The commenters in the post are engaging with the content of the original post as well as the comments, they are not attacking Autism.
Continuing to engage in self-harming behaviors in the name of neurodiversity does an incredible disservice to neurodivergent people.
As an admin and moderator requires conducting oneself civilly and with dignity which entails not using oneβs condition as a shield from accountability, making excuses based on a diagnosis when the individual is able to control patterns both enables misconduct and compounds marginalization and taking ownership of their conduct if they are mentally, emotionally, and physically able.
Difficulty regulating certain behaviors may be a condition, but it does not excuse harming others. This post was made with the explicit intent of harming those who do not fit your idea of what a leftist is and what followed was when you received pushback
I don't see any reports of ableism, and I don't know what you mean about passive aggressive notes? I have difficulty parsing tone over text but if you could be more clear I would appreciate it
I'm trying to work with you here but you aren't giving me anything to work with. I tried to read through the 400+ comments but my ADHD is really giving me a hard time with the walls of text.
On hexbear we focus on a horizontal approach to moderation by empowering community moderators to handle their communities leaving admins to deal with site-wide problems. If you don't have enough moderators in this community to handle it without causing yourself mental distress then I would suggest you adding more moderators.
Would you like me to lock this post from hexbear's side now? Last time I did it I received snark from the db0 mod team so thought that you wanted them left open but now that I know how much stress it is causing you I am reconsidering.
Hello, I wanted to try and compile a list of the hexbear users seeking funds as well as people outside the site's fundraisers so that we could feature it. These have all been posted before in out mutual_aid community.
Here are some of the previous ones we have done:
Here are some of the mutual aid posts and fundraiser links:
links
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https://gogetfunding.com/help-evacuate-my-family-from-gaza-7/
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https://www.gofundme.com/f/5hyju-save-my-family-from-hunger-and-war-in-gaza?lang=en_CA
Please comment any others you would like added to this post, thank you
I wanted to open up a post to discuss the two main methods of federation: allow-list and block-list. As well as see how the majority of users felt with regard to the methods.
Due to some of the issues raised with the method of vote counting this will be considered only a check of user sentiment, not a promise of what to do
I will pin two comments, one in favour of a block-list and one in favour of an allow-list approach to federation.
Before the domain issue we were using an allow-list, this means that any instance that wants to be linked to hexbear must reach out to us or be nominated by a user for addition to the allow-list.
The benefits of this is that we are not automatically linked with any instance that spins up. The downside is that we miss federation with any small lemmy instance as well as with any other activity-pub instance (mastodon, peertube, etc.)
Lemmy.ml and lemmygrad.ml both use a block-list approach and for what it's worth they have done well, the majority of reactionary instances already block us (lemmy.world, sh.itjust.works, lemmy.ca, sopuli.xyz, slrpnk.net) and the pedo/porn/nazi instance are already on the hexbear block-list.
The biggest upside of a block-list approach is that new single person instances that get created will link up with us without any extra steps, and the biggest downside is that it will add an extra step for moderation (adding a new shitty instance to the block-list after they show their shit)
Within the following spoiler will be the hexbear allow-list and block-list.
Discussion may be had within comments, if you have specific instance additions/subtractions from the allow-list or block-list please comment underneath the respective pinned comment.
For example if you wish to add lemmy.ca to the block list comment under https://hexbear.net/comment/5951093
allow-list
spectreofcommunism.boo
hackertalks.com
tankie.tube
transwo.men
orcas.enjoying.yachts
lemmy.frozeninferno.xyz
eviltoast.org
lemmy.eco.br
vegantheoryclub.org
toast.ooo
adultswim.fan
transfem.space
poptalk.scrubbles.tech
gregtech.eu
akko.wtf
pixelfed.social
poweredbygay.social
lemmy.bestiver.se
whisker.bim.boats
lgbt.io
procial.tchncs.de
loops.video
social.kernel.org
lemmy.kde.social
lgbtqia.space
h-i.social
bookwormstory.social
redpawcollective.co
links.hackliberty.org
lemmy.max-p.me
outerheaven.club
blackqueer.life
the-federation.info
lemmy.selfhostcat.com
fanaticus.social
lemmy.pt
ttrpg.network
lemm.monster
leminal.space
monyet.cc
lemmy.sdf.org
feddit.uk
mtgzone.com
feddit.it
weatherishappening.network
futurology.today
lemmy.one
linux.community
dormi.zone
ursal.zone
urbanists.social
lemmy.fan
undernopretext.social
rss.ponder.cat
lemmy.vg
lemmy.ml
lemmy.today
union.place
feddit.cl
mycrowd.ca
ljs.social
seafoam.space
feddit.nu
lemmy.blugatch.tube
mander.xyz
reddthat.com
midwest.social
discuss.techncs.de
lemmy.myserv.one
lemmy.zip
feddit.nl
walledgarden.xyz
thelemmy.club
lemmy.wtf
lemdro.id
lemmy.dbzer0.com
szmer.info
lemm.ee
novo-atlantis.null.media
lemmygrad.ml
social.pwned.page
lemmy.uhhoh.com
scribe.disroot.org
lemy.lol
lemmy.radio
lemmy.studio
possumpat.io
fediseer.com
snowdin.town
toots.matapacos.dog
social.harpia.red
block-list
exploding-heads.com
burggit.moe
nsfwlemmy.com
lemmynsfw.com
nsfwaiclub.com
hilariouschaos.com
lemmy.world
rqd2.net
threads.net
sh.itjust.works
We are nearing the time when we will be able to have federation as an option again, so we wanted to check in with the user base about this decision.
Since there were some complaints against dean-voting, I would like to try using
"Yea" 
or "Nah" 
Only the words within " " or the two specified emojis will be counted when tallying the vote.
In the case of federation, we will be using an allow-list again, but are open to using a block-list if the user base is strongly in favour. If you have a preference between allow-list or block-list federation, please include that in your comment
Thank you!
If any users have purchased domain names they can transfer to us now, or share the account credentials for the domain host please message me so i can add the domain you have to the list of options for a domain change.
Hello users of hexbear, or shall i say chapo.chat, we fucked up, and i fucked up like three times making this post.
Yes, hexbear.net has expired. Yes, we were aware of this possibility. We have gradually lost contact with the access owner (prior admin) for the domain registration. We attempted to make a migration plan, but we were disarmed by the reappearance of the party in question in September 2024 and repeated assurances that they would a) transfer credentials and b) continue payments until they were able to do the former.
We accept full responsibility for this. We should have been more aggressive about this and continued our alternative despite these reassurances. This is our fuck up, and we can't offer anything besides our continued apologies and our plan of action going forward and an explanation of what happened:
Over the time of chapo.chat and hexbear.net the admins that purchased the domain, established the donation accounts, and the server accounts have left. One of the primary admins has gone inactive and returned many times, over a year ago some of the newer admins began asking the older admins to give full access to the domain, servers, and donations. These requests were not met, despite warnings of this exact event.
At the moment we do not have access to hexbear.net and there is a strong chance we will not get it back without participating in the auction, which is already over $300. Choosing to abandon the hexbear.net domain will cause federation problems and considerable technical issues which would lead to potential extended downtime.
During this downtime we would be reestablishing access to the new domain (or hexbear.net if we win the auction), access to server ownership, and donation accounts. This would be distributed among a number of admins so that we can prevent this from happening again.
Chapo.chat has the same access problem that led to the current state of hexbear.net so it is to be considered temporary.
I will do my best to answer questions
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.
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It's run by @grant@toast.ooo Last year a bot sent you a DM on the fediverse account you use but I honestly don't know. I've never participated but know some people on here have done it the past couple years so cross posted