These bigoted, ignorant scum will never listen to anything. They are politically illiterate infants with an allergic reaction to reading.
They have ruined a safe space cultivated and cared for, they have turned this place into a new reddit.
I had a dude in my private messages going on about how I was both mutilating myself and other children. Many more people on hexbear have had similar experiences, with these worthless ignorant scum popping in to deliver the political equivalent of a giant shit.
As your friends, comrades, and people you say you defend get slurred at, dehumanized, and harassed please ask yourself:
Is it worth it?
I have the answer, I know you know it as well:
No its not
I used to think otherwise
I was a fool
its not worth a few laughs
even if you dunk all you want, that doesn't take away the knife those people put in our backs.
These bigots, fascists, and NATO liberals are as worthless offline as they are here, why should we give them any attention. They are worth less than the dirt beneath our fingernails. Why should we poison ourselves with their influence? We don't make any room for them offline, why should we not online?
And really
How many essays have your written?
How many sources have you combed through?
How many times have you explained the most basic facts of reality?
How many attempts at good faith?
Only for them to dismiss it in their stupidity. They don't read it, they just crumble and divert back to the programming these little shits trust in more than God.
For every time there is a good faith user, there are a dozen scumbag fascists. And most of the time, the "good faith one" just reverts back to their old shit.
Do you really think losing any member of the hexbear or lemmygrad community, longtime members or not, is worth a few good dunks?
I don't believe a small chance of gaining a new user is worth alienating an entire section of the community. The vast majority of those idiots are lost causes. If they are interested, the can just make an account and ask in good faith.
Is posting a meme to "own the liberals" worth your comrades getting more trauma from bigots harassing them?
No its not.
you've had your laugh, but it should end
Ban them all, SJW, lemm.ee, lemmy, the programmer nazi edglords. Keep Lemmygrad.
Defederate from those communities. We shouldn't sacrifice our own for more clicks. For having to subject ourselves to the opinions of people thoroughly brainwashed? We aren't reddit. We came here to get away from that. I'm sick of this. We are sick of this.
End it now
As a r/CTH grognard, I personally would want to be able to get the old sub culture back, but I suppose that time erodes all things & that you can't really turn its hands backwards
The sub culture was good in the context of reddit, especially since reddit liberals didn't have the time or ability to ignore people (aside from the block function). The counternarrative to reddit's liberal bias at large was also unavoidable and useful. The lemmy fedeverse is more just a loose association of online silos where reactionaries just go back to their base to strawman Hexbear, especially when they get the slightest pushback upon their journey into Hexbear.
Also, r/cth posters didn't really engage in good faith discussions as much as Hexbears do, with the former usually asking a belligerent reactionary/liberal for a picture of their "hog" more often than not.
Unfortunately the same fuckers that make libs look so bad (the political "right" in a US context) are the same types of people (mental gymnastics types) to rock CTH and troll for the sake of it.
Unfortunately, some people think libs can be converted, while others are:
Yeah, this was originally an explicit lifeboat for that subreddit and was always intended to federate. Some former admins had other ideas and changed the site makeup to the point where maybe that isn't the best move anymore, but I honestly think the blame for the current issue lies squarely at their feet for promising this instance as a safe haven that it was never intended to be and could not be in a federated context.
TBH, posting here has kind of sucked shit for the last two years, and I mainly stuck around due to the legacy, and also personal obstinance. 👀