Hello users of Hexbear, there have been many changes and some drama the past few months.
The recent changes we've been making have been an attempt to create a more safe and welcoming environment for many demographics that have been overlooked in the past.
For any of our comrades that have been unintentionally hurt in this process, we apologise and hope to find a solution that accommodates as many people as possible while still meeting the needs of the marginalised groups who need a space like this the most.
The intent of this post is to provide a space for all users to air grievances with regard to the site. As well as provide suggestions for specific things that could be changed to address your grievance. Comments insulting the mod team or those without a specific means to address your problem may be removed. No commenter will be sitebanned, unless it clearly breaks the code of conduct.
In the spirit of the suggestion that separate points are kept separate, I'll do this one on its own.
I think a nice communitygathering effort would be a weekly crowdsourced effortpost. Posts like this one and this one were great for both pooling resources, getting people to work together and reminding us we're all on the same side. They've also been great tools to have since then for educating myself as well as others. Effective agitprop in a way.
It would be nice to have a weekly or monthly thread focusing on one issue where we could work together to make something like that for different subjects. "Why is wikipedia bad?" "Structural racism and misogyny" "Issues with Ukraine" and so on. I'm sure people have plenty of ideas for good posts like that.
The resources are already here, but they're spread out and they disappear as users delete their accounts. I know @robinn@hexbear.net (sorry I don't know what your current account is, if you're still here) has written out a bunch of fantastic posts with a great wealth of resources that are now lost to the wind as the accounts get deleted.