Hexbear has been getting a lot more attention and activity as of late, and while it is very fun to dunk on the new people posting on the site in bad faith, a post to appreciate the new good faith users contributing to the site seems like a great idea.
So, what new users do you appreciate, and what should other potential new users do to get the same reception?
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I just got here from Lemm.ee - I was watching the defederation drama unfold and just kept thinking ‘dang, these comrades are based as fuck, I joined the wrong instance!’ Anyway I’m here now, reporting for duty!
check out c/howdy
New user not really contributing atm, but I found my way here from exploring lemmy and hearing all the controveries.
What I’ve enjoyed the most so far is seeing my preconceptions of internet leftism challenged and corrected. I checked out cth and genzedong back before reddit banned both and always thought it was simply full of antagonistic lefties who just wanted to troll libs. Honestly, it put a bad taste in my mouth and made me sad about the state of the left.
Being around here for a few days has shown me how absolutely wonderful everyone is as well as how deep conversations can go when yall have your own space free from constant lib attack. It’s easy to see how I attributed the antagonism wrong and that it was simply defense against lib brigades. In hindsight, wish I would have just dug a little deeper back then and be partying with y’all since.
I’ve already learned so much lurking and look forward to learning more and interacting with all you beautiful people.
Hello, made an account here since the lame instance I was in only federate with other lame instances. I’m exited to post all my bad takes.
If Michael Fassbender isn’t a leftist, we can pull him left by his hog.
Well you for one, for making this topic, it’s a good idea
Assuming you mean new users even from outside the instance, I’ve seen a few users from elsewhere post dune memes, and we need more duneposting
Also more generally the free software / anti-IP / linux content seems to have increased (we had comms for those of course but theirs are bigger) and that’s pretty great too
Speaking for myself here, but one thing that always makes me happy is seeing more users who are into Star Trek, furries, into hobbies, or any combination of those.
Star Trek and furries are great. You’ve been very welcoming. Hopefully more hobby and niche content is making it through now that y’all have run the bot. The lemmy devs are also toying with the algorithms to give smaller comms more weight for visibility.
The part about smaller comms is especially great news imo. We have quite a few comms here that could use more love.
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Were you able to migrate your posts, subs, and comments? I didn’t realise lemm.ee was, well, what it is when I first joined. (I just liked the look of the double letters.)
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Unfortunately, they’re also fedded with exploding heads, but I’ve never actually seen a post from there.
Exploding heads has been shut down, because nobody on Lemmy wanted to accept their bullshit (they made a long post about it before they finally closed), so actually nobody is federated with them anymore
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Very excited to have you aboard!
No ableism
Don’t forget, if you need to you can disengage from a conversation at any time, just say disengage if you ever need to, if users don’t respect that they get banned on the spot o7
Please post, please ask questions, and remember
John Brown did nothing wrong unlimited bloodshed against Slave Owners
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this and no downvotes seem like the best things ever to my anxious ass holy shit
On Lemmy.world the downvotes mean your triggering the cognitive dissonance - that’s my kink.
just say disengage if you ever need to
Little corollary: this is not to be used as a “let me post a wall of text and call you names then say ‘disengage’ and call the mods on you if you reply” tool. You have to actually disengage. Learning how to do that is good.
Omg I wish everywhere did that.
I had a conversation earlier that I wanted to disengage with because the person was strawmanning me and it was clear, after pointing out to them already that’s what they were doing, I wasn’t going to have a productive discussion, so I said I was no longer going to interact and got 2 reply meaaages to it, basically trying to egg me on to re-engage, one of which said it was ironic I was telling him I was disengaging… Simply because I told him I was doing so?? (Which I did not respond to, for obvious reasons)
I love that that will be respected here. 💜
I welcome fresh blood. Cant wait for them to start their first struggle session.
Outdoor cats are returning. I can feel it.
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Boo
Hexbear is a hell of a lot more based than the old /r/chapotraphouse ever was, you’re all spitting fire 🌋
I’m very tempted to make an account on this instance too, much easier to just open the Local feed that way.
if you decide to make an account, check out https://hexbear.net/c/howdy !
I appreciate @[email protected]! She seems super cool and sweet and like she’s here to listen and learn what we’re about, I better not see y’all being mean to her
i just think our she/they comrades are neat
hey thank you, I wasn’t expecting this it made me smile <3
uncritical support to ewichuu for being so nice she actually reads my rambling
Idk the new users names yet but I like the one with the pfp that looked like a queer scarecrow I think
thing but queer is a good pfp theme
Been lurking for a few months but this is first online space I haven’t gotten those fucked vibes from
I’m still getting through my list of theory so I don’t feel confident joining certain conversations yet but I’d like to think being open-minded to deprogramming all the western propaganda bullshit I’ve ingested over a lifetime has helped me discover this community
Don’t feel like you can’t join conversations because you don’t have all the theory down comrade. We’ve all got plenty gaps in our knowledge and people are pretty cool about explaining things if required.
Just make sure to qualify your statements and ask questions in earnest. I appreciate they aren’t making declarations without investigation
holy shit, the GOAT joined our website
also don’t worry, we’re fucking wrong all the time. we then talk it out. it’s how we grow
I wish hexbear had gone with the name lib.rehab, because finding this place has done so many wonders for getting the worms out of my brain
Say the wrong thing some time. Folk will set you right. Its a bit rough on the ego but nothing stamps out brain worms quite like a stern rebuke and as soon as you say “oh shit you are right” everything is good.
Better yet, if you’re not confident you have the right answer, say that instead of pretending you have all the best takes and then digging in when people disagree. You’ll get an even better reception.
I’d almost consider it like an online anxiety lol. Mustering up the strength to not revert back to being a lurker after not expressing a thought succinctly and powering through the posting to stamp those worms out.
You know, I gotta say the whole Lemmy vibe has fixed a lot of that issue for me. I had some 500k karma on Reddit from comments, but I deleted all of them within a week of posting because the anxiety got to me. I wanted to be entirely transient there. Part of the conversation, but as soon as the conversation was over, gone.
Lemmy is a smaller more community-feel community in general, and other than a few bad actors, it’s really peaceful here.
I have wild amounts of anxiety about tons of things, and I don’t feel weird participating here (even without deleting all my content regularly!)
Once you get through the “I’m posting to help everyone here” barrier, which that silly message on posts with no comments helps a ton with, it’s such a good space to exist. Even if you don’t agree, if you do so from a place of open communication and accept what others want to share with you, you’ll be totally fine.
I had that until hexbear. Right now I’m possibly getting torn apart by a comrade who seems to have raead more than me. Otherwise how do I figure out what I don’t know? And this comrade is cool about it
It always helps when it’s an actual discussion instead of a bad faith debate
How’s your son feeling?
It’s been a while since he posted some Jewish conspiracies
pls be the real lebron
You guys are the cool commie friends I wish to have, and I’m sad I haven’t met you guys before. Such a happy place to get some
GOOD OL’ MURICANfreedom from all the lib crap we endure daily ❤️✨im gay lol
Uhhhh…. I’m gay Obama…… and uhhhh…… let me be queer
Welcome to hexbear <333 so am I! <3
noway me too <3
We’re all so gay and trans and communist <3
big vibe
Woooow how original, a gay hexbear. Sheesh, get some new material
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jk I love all my comrades, gay, trans, bi, and (may I be forgiven for uttering such profanity) straight
based
braver than the troops
