QuietCupcake

Seriously, why not just stay on reddit, or (same thing) move to .world? If manually blocking things that are shocking to your precious little sensibilities is too hard for you, there has always been other places that pander to echochamber-seeking dorks like you.

Hexbear as a community was never going to leave. We almost lost our domain due to some silly bullshit but thankfully it didn't happen. Even if it had though, we were just looking at a name change, maybe becoming hexbear.ml (or something like that) or possibly rebranding as some other name entirely. But we were never just gonna cease to exist like it appears lemm.ee will.

That said, I am a little sad lemm.ee is going. It may have had its share of asshole users, but there were(are) definitely some cool people on it too. And whatever anyone can say about it negatively, lemm.ee is a hundred times better than fucking .world. My god THAT instance is a cesspit. .World is vehemently, aggressively trying to be reddit 2.0 along with all that implies including amplifying everything that makes reddit a shit website and corrosive lie of "community." Lemm.ee may have had its issues, but if nothing else, it was a solid alternative to .world and that alone is enough to make me sad to see it go. There are even a couple users on it that I hope to see make an account on hexbear and plenty of others that would fit on .ml or one of the the other more generic instances.

Edited to fix typing mistakes.

Completely agreed. It sometimes amazes me how unable carnists, especially the ones who "love animals," are to recognize their blatant hypocrisy for what it is: cringy rationalizations to justify behavior they're unwilling to change. I'm glad at least that in leftist spaces like this, the concept of "self crit" is better understood and accepted as a good thing to do, something everyone needs to do if they have any hope of examining all the bullshit that "western culture" has ingrained into us.

(Also for the record, I wasn't the one who reported your comment. Like i said, I was pretty sure you were being sarcastic, just not 100% certain).

I was pretty sure that was the case, but everything you said was literally the exact reasoning I've seen presented as a solid argument against veganism. Sadly even here on hexbear sometimes, people have expressed the staunch belief that human brains are uniquely and exclusively the only kind that deserve recognition for their suffering. /s tags shouldn't be needed ideally, but especially on certain topics and when an entire comment is sarcasm, it can be hard to know with 100% certainty that it wasn't serious. Especially for people with certain types of neurodivergence like me.

Just to make sure... you're pointing out how disgustingly ridiculous that idea is, right? (I'm not gonna use the Padme emoji here because its a genuine question). You're saying how hypocritical and absurd it is, despite its ubiquity and that carnists (especially the super smart reddit "rationalists") would nod in agreement?

i dont think crackers are criminals i think they are the unsung heroes of the digital age

You should invite him to do an AMA here so he can get mad and (not incorrectly) call us all LARPers.

I've noticed that a lot of times, but not always, when a user is permabanned most of their comments are removed even from the modlog. I thought that was just for instance-wide bans, but it looks like it may apply to comm-bans too. I'm also curious about the specifics of how that works if anyone who knows wants to chime in.

Edit: makes obvious sense for bans due to spam to wipe all comments, but it definitely happens even when that's not the reason for the ban.

Thanks for attributing it. I was wondering if I had heard/read those lines before.

If anyone is interested, it's part of a longer poem Communism is the Middle Term. Here it is in full:

To call for the overthrow of the existing order
May seem a terrible thing
But what exists is no order.
To seek refuge in violence
May seem evil.
But what is constantly at work is violence
And there is nothing special about it.
Communism is not the extreme outlier
That only in a small part can be realized,
and until it is not completely realized,
The situation is unbearable
Even for someone who is insensitive.
Communism is really the most minimal demand
What is nearest, reasonable, the middle term.
Whoever is opposed to it is not someone who thinks otherwise
It is someone who does not think or who thinks only about himself
It is an enemy of the human species who,
Terrible
Evil
Insensitive
And, in particular,
Wanting the most extreme, realised even in the tiniest part,
Plunges all humankind into destruction.