On a related note, r-ChapoDogHouse is the last remaining chapo (in the name) sub that I know of. There was a porm themed one that lasted a while, but it got nuked eventually.
Okay you can call bearsite "woke-scoldy" if you're mad we told you off for supporting imperialism or whatever, but cliquey? Fuck that shit.
As an autistic hexbear, discord servers full of liberal queers are cliquey. Subreddits for dumb interests are cliquey. Hexbear is fucking awesome. Fuck reddit lmao.
i'm fairly new, and i really don't get the accusations of clique-yness, nor toxicity. this is easily one of the friendliest and most welcoming public communities i've ever been in online
StrappingYoungVlad, where did you go? Look, I'll even make it easy for you:
October 7th was justified and good, Hamas is good and the legitimate representatives of the Palestinian people and their national liberation struggle from """Israeli""" settler-colonialism, you shouldn't vote for the genocide party (Democrats), anti- racism isn't real but if it was it would be good, unlimited destruction on the first world, political violence is justified, Stalin was 70% good and 30% bad, uhhhh anyone got any others for the screenshot?
You're either dirt_owls friend or your not, the owl decides who's part of the club. Sadly, dirt_owl said I was stinky and had "farty pants" so I'm not part of the clique.
Fr though, WHAT FUCKING CLIQUES ARE THEY TALKING ABOUT PLS EXPLAIN
It's like no one who talks shit about Hexbear has actually been here. The libs with political disagreements I can at least understand but this just baffles me. I was looking at the sphere of Lemmy earlier and all this talk of Hexbear being "toxic" or whatever, like just look around and it's obviously complete bullshit. The trans megathread alone is like 30% love and support by content wtf
ive been here for 4 years and i dont know a single one of you shitheads and i still manage to have a good time here.
also before someone points out this account is 2 years old i cycled usernames frequently for the first couple years but now i think there's a survey so im scared to nuke this account
Lmao what is this person talking about. Even liberals are welcome here if they engage in good faith and are respectful.
We might boldly tell them their ideas are bad or skewer their sources but that's not rude - this is our space - of course we won't let contrary ideas be disseminated without challenge. As long as they are polite things generally go well. If they ask real questions people will generally be nice and willing to reply.
We can be initially harsh sometimes but the visiting liberal must remember the context: we have years of history of wreckers and assholes coming here with gotcha questions and bad faith. We're a little jaded there. But it's a reflexive self defense and we are vindicated in that vigilance because we are still standing as a safe place to discuss leftist ideals and organizing. We can say we dislike capitalism without having to deal with 30 of the same tired liberal criticisms. Surely they must appreciate how tiring that is even if they disagree with what is being said. Imagine if every time you said "I prefer Coca-Cola" a host of Pepsi Locusts descended to chatter about how wrong you are and piss and shit all over. Exhausting.
And yeah we might be wholly intractable on certain issues but that's because we do have some zero-tolerance rules and they are there for a reason. So no, you can't come in here and ask why it's okay for black people to say the n word and it isn't for white people. Nobody here is going to be defending you for asking it with a quote from Voltaire. It's not happening. Deal with it. It's not a big ask.