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Are you cisgender? Gender Survey Result: Majority of active Hexbear users say No and Maybe.
  • I originally meant to post this on the thread on transgender@lemmy.blahaj.zone, but here goes:

    Here's some very important context for anybody visiting this thread that may be tempted to join hexbear: don't, unless you love authoritarian governments.

    Beware also: many lemmy.ml users are actually hexbear users that are exploiting the lack of moderation on lemmy.ml.

    For a long time now, hexbear users have been brigading communities all over Lemmy, spamming pro-russia and pro-china propaganda all over them. It looks like that's what they're doing here too. That's why other instances defederated from them.

    Hexbear users regularly pose as communists, which I don't personally have any problems with, but way more than they love communism, they love authoritarian governments. And for a while they had been literally posting memes mocking democracy with links in the comments promoting authoritarianism (NOT communism).

    Hexbear users, aka tankies, for a while had also tried to claim that "tankies" is a generalization that applies to all leftists and that we should all be offended by it. It's not, it's almost always used as a term for people broadcasting their oppression fetish on main.

  • What are some marketing tactics that you dislike ?
  • Anything that involves deception, which unfortunately seems to be most of marketing.

    I don't mind when people just try to get their product out there, just let it be known that it exists and does X thing differently or better. I hate when they mean to deceive. Something that is intended to deceive but isn't technically a lie is not really better than a lie, to me.

  • Pornhub to leave five more states over age-verification laws
  • Easiest solution IMO if you're already using CloudFlare, even the free version: you can filter out certain countries. Otherwise, there's probably other alternatives, even open source ones. Good terms to search for with your cloud provider or self hosted software may be middlewares, firewalls, serverless, edge functions, etc.

  • ARE TANKIES CONSPIRING TO MAKE SURE YOU HAVE A BAD TIME ON LEMMY.ML?
  • I'm pretty damn left leaning and I've never been called a tankie. I rarely even see anyone being called a tankie, except people who are defending authoritarians. The scope of the word "tankie" seemed generally pretty clear to me.

  • Just getting into JS
  • I want to add that, like you, I've become a big fan of restricting the numbers of ways to do something.

    IMO, It's more time wasted choosing, more time wasted reviewing, and makes it easier to overlook errors. I want more opinionated languages and frameworks.

  • How to create a bootable Linux USB drive
  • I kept seeing so many different ones recommended and I kept getting weird issues I didn't understand with most of them. I don't often need to make a bootable Linux USB, but every time, Rufus did the job quick and easy.

  • Trump’s Bizarre Rants Over Wind Power Are More Ominous Than You Think
  • For a while now, I kept seeing posts about the Israel/Palestine issue, and almost every time, when I looked at their poster's history, they were full of negative news against Israel and the US (often with a negative comment from the OP about the US, even when the article isn't about to the US), and often contained lots of positive news, comments and remarks about China and Russia. I find this very suspicious, but I may be overly cynical.

    I've almost only been seeing this on lemmy.ml and lemmy.ca. Perhaps I'm imagining it, but I also feel like I've seen these accounts promote not voting during the next election.

    I started tagging these accounts a few months ago and I frequently see their posts on the front page.

  • Why I Lost Faith in Kagi
  • I've been using both Perplexity and Kagi for searching things, and it's working out pretty well for me. The main thing that I find Kagi useful for is filtering to Fediverse results (which tends to be mostly Lemmy threads).

    It's pretty expensive though...

  • Struggling with best practices on NextJS SSR and Cookies
  • For both frameworks, the directory structure controls the URL unless there's an exception I'm unaware of.

    One way to forward the cookie may be to read cookies from the API response headers and write them using the following documentation: https://nextjs.org/docs/app/api-reference/functions/cookies

  • Based
  • Perhaps I'm being a bit too optimistic, but access to information isn't the same now as it was in the 20th century.

    Although we have a lot of false information to filter through out there, we don't have to rely on what's available at the local library or what our friends and family believe. I hope that it's going to be increasingly difficult to spread misinformation and fear mongering.

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