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Terevos@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

FWIW I did not have a good experience with hexbear communities. I had originally subscribed to a few that weren’t particularly political. But apparently they’re all political.

However, my response was to unsubscribe from all hexbear communities.

I could block the instance with the app I’m using, but I haven’t gone that far yet. I didn’t think it was necessary.

So… While I’m personally vehemently opposed to much of the politics hexbear represents, I also don’t think we need to defederate. At least not at this point.

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Fibby@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
If you dont mind me asking… what hexbear community did you think was non political?

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- mar_k@hexbear.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  almost completely non-political: c/food, c/diy, c/gardening, c/tabletop, c/hobby, c/fashion, c/travel, c/mycology, c/gamedev, c/ttrpg, c/libre
  
  90% non-political: c/music, c/movies, c/anime, c/earth, c/neurodiverse, c/cars, c/paganism, c/judaism, c/writing
  
  usually non-political: c/games, c/fitness, c/art, c/science, c/philosophy, c/worldbuilding, c/languagelearning, c/vegan, c/poverty_finance
  
  generally half or more non-political: c/technology, c/chat, c/urbanism, c/agriculture, c/maritime, c/finance, c/christianity, c/ama, c/creepy, c/islam
  
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  - kneel_before_yakub@hexbear.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    
    C/vegan
    
    Nonpolitical
    
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    mar_k@hexbear.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    Yea a lot of things are political that normies don’t consider to be, “non political” in the liberal sense of the term I guess, especially if they’re just trying to avoid communist posting
    
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- Terevos@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  I thought videos wouldn’t be political. But it’s a lot political, even if the video itself isn’t political. And there were a few others I looked into. But… I’m just going to nope out of all of them.
  
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  - Fibby@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    Well, I think its a good thing you tried to branch out, even if it didn’t work out.
    
    Most the “non political” communities appear explicitly political at first glance to me. Like c/food has posts about the “LGBTQ sandwich” and “cracker cuisine” lol. Its going to be impossible to avoid political takes in an explicitly leftist instance.
    
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