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

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[–] NoLeftLeftWhereILive@hexbear.net 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

As a completely new user I will add that this feels less safe like this.

The reason I signed up here was the way I felt run down and disheartneded by the tankie takes over on Mastodon. Which is where I fled from big social (twitter, reddit) after realizing how pointless that was.

I am here to learn and share about communism and to be around folks who see the word the way I do. I am spesifically looking for a safe bubble outside the typically unsafe reactionary spaces we all have to kind of see and engage with.

I am on Mastodon trying to make people think about their programming, it's exhausting and often you get attacked. And the liberal takes are always the same ones, everywhere. I think protecting ourselves from that in this one place would be good for mental health reasons and to protect marginalized identities as well.

Seeing the discussions here actually feels nice, makes one feel less alone and provides much needed support.