Like I don’t really use any other social media, but sometimes (like this past week) I venture outside of my hexbear bubble and I browse twitter, or reddit, or instagram, or tiktok, and holy shit I just browse those websites for a minute or two and feel worse about myself, worse about the world, it honestly seems like everyone on those sites is completely insufferable and every post is designed in some CIA laboratory to make me irrationally angry. Like look, sometimes we can all get annoyed at each other here, and I am no exception to that, and nowhere is perfect, but wow this place is 1000% better than like the majority of the internet, I honestly don’t know how people go through life at this point browsing the regular internet.
The ironic effect of Hexbear has been to significantly reduce my time on the Internet, because almost everywhere else seems so shitty by comparison.
My time spent sitting in Discord calls or scrolling for hours is significantly lower recently because somewhat ironically, the quality of posts here (outside of bad posting, DOWN with beanis) is higher so it takes less for me to be satisfied and
for a while. If not higher quality, less mentally draining or bad vibe generating. Has been good for my mental because I’ve spent more time doing things I actually enjoy.Shortly after I discovered Hexbear I simply stopped going on Twitter. The quality of engagement there was so low. Apart from a handful of people who were nice and based it was all smug liberals and frothing Nazis.
On Hexbear you can actually have a rewarding exchange on politics with someone. You divvy have to constantly defend the right if queer and non-white people to exist or to reach through generations of anticommunist propaganda.
Same, I don’t use
much anymore because I have Hexbear and Hexbear is so so so much more chill.
This place really feels like the old internet.
Without the rampant racism, homophobia, ableism and sexism (for the most part)
It really does and I either we could convert to an old school bbs forum style
The highest compliment
I’m the old Norm, I want to have a normal time onlineThere’s liberalism in my beer!
The more time I spend on the internet, the more I’m convinced that it’s so much more useless than we think
This feels like the internet away from the internet, I think because it gives me late 2010 vibes
Best described as the misfits that find each other at a party and go smoke imo. God I miss that shit, we’re in such a cyberpunk age
Best described as the misfits that find each other at a party and go smoke imo.
I would always end up in that lowkey kickback room at big parties in college.
Hexbear really is that room and the internet is one huge frat rager.
That metaphor speaks to me.
the misfits that find each other at a party and go smoke imo. God I miss that shit, we’re in such a cyberpunk age
Every day I cry for this shit. My life used to be just sitting around in the woods smoking all day. Now I just sit at the computer staring at the bleakest shit imaginable (outside of hexbear). Retvrn to stonerdom
I’m afraid it’s just life as you age (when you live in the decades where weeks happen era)
Like, think about it. Do you think a Lenin equivalent would have allowed Silicon Valley to get this far?
Do you think a Lenin equivalent would have allowed Silicon Valley to get this far?
Best described as the misfits that find each other at a party and go smoke imo.
I would always end up in that lowkey kickback room at big parties in college.
Hexbear really is that room and the internet is one huge frat rager.
its my best kept little secret— like a little fairy door or that hole where him henson kept the fraggles. except inside this hole its mostly queers and commies. christ!!! its a good thing somebody put them there or i would never find them in that mess they call “the world”
it’s funny, i’ve had coworkers ask me about where i go on the internet (cuz i am a based communist ofc) and i show them the lil bear website on my black mirror and they just kinda blink and go “oh ok” like this place is so subtle it’s great
(thinking) “this site doesnt have any jobs on it or porn either, ill ask somebody else”
“where are the shorts?”
actually me, don’t read me like this tf?
how do you post with the exact cadence to emit a kind of Dril incandesence
i resent this post i have put a lot of craft and personality into drowning all my posts i don’t like with exclamation marks trying to make them hit
if the dril incandesence is undesired than i have bad news about this response
no, i only use the LED bulbs
more like dayofdoom posting
Nah, dayofdoom didn’t do much but tiresome irony poisoning. The scribbly porcine poster has a more interesting and unique posting style.
This is like if dril and
had a crossoverNow I can’t unsee it.
fraggles
mostly queers and commies
This place legit motivates me to improve myself and I can’t think of another online space as mind-opening or conducive to healthy discussion. The reputation this place gets as some kind of toxic shitpit is totally unwarranted.
Hexbear is one of the few good spaces on the internet
There are others?
Lemmygrad. We exist :kitty-cri:
oh yup! I forget that it is a separate space because I access it through Hexbear.
I still don’t know how to browse other instances ‘from’ HB. Like, I can get to individual comms and still be logged in, but not the homepage? Do you just sub to all the comms and view from subscribed?
I’ve only ever done it one comm at a time. Sometimes I hitch a ride into a different comm with a user that has a good take.
That’s kinda how the internet used to be.
That is genuinely wholesome.
love our lemmygrad comrades.
lemmygrad seems great whenever I browser via all instead of local from time to time.
Mastodon is not bad although it is Going Through It right now about how if you’re a person of color the platform is absolutely terrible because it doesn’t have any safety features. Specifically it’s the case that nobody sees the exact same set of replies to a given post so racists can hide their posts targeting PoC and the clueless white people don’t think racism exists. Then default to their midwit FOSS-splaining “if you don’t like it open a PR” as though the mastodon project hasn’t had a million discussions on this topic and leadership decided it isn’t worth solving.
CSPAM is ok, mostly (rip LF)
Merveilles seems pretty cool although I can’t get an invite. The tildeverse is sick too.
The internet is crashing all around us while we’re like
Reject bazinga.
Embrace Queen thought.
what is queen thought?
I like this site so much that I made an account despite not posting much anyway, I just love listening to you comrades, you guys are the realest people I have ever seen on the anonymous internet.
Took me time and courage to write this comment, I should probably go and touch grass now.
Nobody is trying to sell you something
There are no Nazis
There are no smug liberals
There is no homophobia and transphobia
The only racism there is is the background radiation you get from growing up in a racist society and even that is being minimised
There are almost no debate lords
There are nobody bragging about their perfect lives
Is Hexbear even a proper online community?
Sometimes I try to go to reddit to talk about my special interests but holy shit everyone there is so fucking dumb. It’s not even politics sometimes, just terminal reddit brain and absolutely 0 media literacy. Hexbear is also the only “social media” site I’ve been a part of that isn’t just constantly enshittified.
Hey thanks, I’m trying to do my part to ruin it myself.
Down with beanis
Y’all keep me sane. I love this place so much. It’s so nice to not have to deal with shitty fascist white racist liberal genocide apologists.
Good post, I can’t explain how much I love this place. Anywhere else on the internet it takes such little time until you come across some liberal/fascist take that tries to push the Overton window all the way to the Third Reich, this is a safe haven I can’t do without anymore. Lemmy being a great platform also contributes a lot, but its all of you that make it what it could never be otherwise. I’m gonna really miss you people if this site gets
It really has the pre-2008 niche BBS feel to it. Very cozy and I love it.
If this is what BBS was like, I’m officially a return type for that specific thing. Way better than what is currently the norm.
Very similar vibes. What I wouldn’t do for a return of those times…
As close as we’re going to get in these days.
Needs more doors.
For a POC like myself this is one of the few places on the net that doesn’t have seething or overt hatred for my kind
Aight chief i’mma ask you to make a habit of being a lil more specific with your description of self, since you’ve got a three month account here: “For a POC”/“as a POC” never looks right, and makes me think the person saying it is cosplaying. Just my rec from me to you, if you Black, claim it with your whole chest. If it’s another nationality that a peckerwood would first clock as Black, Pacific, or Indigeous, claim it with your whole chest. Get me?
Black. African.
Claim it then, homie. Like, as a habit. Not tryna get too in your ass about it; but it’s hella white folk who cosplay Black and couch it in “as a POC myself”-type bullshit.
Yeah I see what you mean. Too much digital blackface online
