sorry I already finished middle school, why would I want to go back there
Comment on alternatives to lemm.ee?
Aliveelectricwire@hexbear.net 1 month ago
Come to hexbear.net! We aren’t a bunch of scary online tankie, we will answer questions asked in good faith, and most of us do real political organizing! We also have the best emotes of any instances.
kitty-birthday-sad it is literally my birthday so come on over 2 hexbear kitty-birthday-sad
TimewornTraveler@lemm.ee 1 month ago
tocopherol@hexbear.net 1 month ago
big-cool chicken-bop bird-bouncy no instance can ever beat the hex emotes
juliebean@lemm.ee 1 month ago
hexbear is fun and all, but i’d rather just visit. too many other places defederate from ya’ll, for reasons which are quite beyond my ken.
Belly_Beanis@hexbear.net 1 month ago
oyo@lemm.ee 1 month ago
When I posted there in good faith all I got were death threats.
Cowbee@lemmy.ml 1 month ago
Doesn’t seem to be the case, looks like you got into one fight regarding electoralism but you’ve even been upvoted on Hexbear in numerous other occasions.
zyratoxx@lemm.ee 5 weeks ago
I prefer an instance that is unaligned in the lemmy civil war between the auth left and left libs. Having a hexbear, 'grad or ml account would instantly brandmark me in literally any conversation whilst most pure lib instances censor auth left content.
Overall I prefer to get both sides opinions and then make my own unaligned one
Cowbee@lemmy.ml 5 weeks ago
The struggle with such a standpoint is that both Marxists and Liberals have (to a varying degrees) coherent systems of values and understandings. For Marxists, as an example, Dialectical and Historical Materialism is the baseline, while liberals tend to be more idealist and deny aspects of class struggle. If you agree with either premise, then other conclusions necessarily follow.
Plus, I don’t really think labeling Marxists as “auth” makes sense. All states are “auth,” as all states are instruments of class oppression, but the class in charge is what makes the biggest impact on how society is run. Liberalism is “auth” as the bourgeoisie rules, Marxism is “auth” as the proletariat rules. It is only by abolishing class that the state can be abolished, and class can only be abolishef by sublimating all forms of property ownership into common, public ownership.
Either way, tangent aside, I recommend finding instances that match your interest, rather than strictly broad federation. Mander.xyz is a great example of an instance based on science, but it also has broad federation. Check Join-Lemmy.
oyo@lemm.ee 1 month ago
I guess several people saying they would kill me if they ever met me irl, and claiming their statements were “real, actionable threats” is just a typical online fight in a healthy community.
Cowbee@lemmy.ml 1 month ago
I didn’t see any of that when glancing through your comments on Hexbear, mind providing an example with the context?
MyOpinion@lemm.ee 1 month ago
Hexbear houses some of the worst people I have ever experienced on Lemmy. Do not go there unless you are truly toxic.
Cowbee@lemmy.ml 1 month ago
Strong disagreement there. Hexbear users frequently brush against liberals and anti-Communists, but as an actual space it’s not toxic at all, in my experience. If you consider yourself a Marxist or Anarchist, you’ll probably fit in well, if not then you won’t, simple as that.
dipshit@lemm.ee 1 month ago
This you?
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I think they were talking about people like that, people like you.
Cowbee@lemmy.ml 1 month ago
Yep, someone was being genuinely racist, talking about how Chinese people live in filth and their infrastructure is held up with duct tape, that they eat fake meat and fake tofu, etc. There’s a difference between critique of the CPC and veering off into racism, which is why I reported the comments, and then got banned for it for a day.
TankieTanuki@hexbear.net 1 month ago
What was wrong with his comment?
AntiOutsideAktion@hexbear.net 1 month ago
When George W Bush says we’re invading a country for their freedom, do you believe him because that’s the reason he wrote down and he’s in a position of authority?
Gold_E_Lox@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
i dont agree anarchists fit in, i love it from the outside cause theres some great memes and yall can be very funny, but then a lot of people start defending governments guilty of subjugation and shit.
TankieTanuki@hexbear.net 1 month ago
Russia and China are not your enemy.
Cowbee@lemmy.ml 1 month ago
It’s a Left Unity space, plus historically Anarchists and Marxists work together more often than not. The Anarchists on Hexbear can speak for why they enjoy it.
nonailsleft@lemm.ee 1 month ago
Yeah sounds like a good option for those of us looking to move to the exact opposite of lemm.ee then
Cowbee@lemmy.ml 1 month ago
That’s why I said at the end that it’s a very different instance than lemm.ee. I was pushing against the idea that Hexbear is filled with the worst types of people, which is wrong.
AntiOutsideAktion@hexbear.net 1 month ago
You say that like your instance isn’t so toxic that your admins gave up maintaining it
Aliveelectricwire@hexbear.net 1 month ago
Counter point: I’m a drunk cute Doggir doggirl-hi I’m the special birthday girl, yr a weirdo who is obsessed with oppressing others for inexcusable cheap treats,and it’s my special day!!! doggirl-gloom UwU
Yr toxic to call my instance toxic for not just rebuking our certifiable facts/emotional labor.
doggirl-kiss
hobovision@lemm.ee 1 month ago
I genuinely can’t tell if you’re doing a bit?
TankieTanuki@hexbear.net 1 month ago
Hexbear is friendly and cool.