The Dredge Tank

he has trans friends and that's why he's an authority

dude didn't read the survey results, hexbear has several hundred times as many trans friends and is therefore the greater authority

A cis gay man? Transphobic? Not physically possible, tankie.

Awwww, he's an honorary Maoist because you get to live rent-free in his head

he has trans friends and he’s gay and thats why hes an authority

Sounds authoritarian smh

change filter to all instead of local
still sorted by hot
all results are hexbear

How many of y'all actually venture out of Local?

I certainly don't with any regularity lol

the majority of our interaction with other instances seems to be them wandering in here and getting mad at our takes.

I don't even understand how this website works

I go to All when I feel like seeing lame programming memes from 2010 Reddit

I default to All. It’s pretty dead ngl. I went over to .world assuming that because they’re a big instance that there would be content I hadn’t seen or was interesting that I couldn’t find here. Like maybe because they’re were bigger they had more activity in niche comms. Basically the Reddit effect. No such luck. Hexbear stays winning.

I browse all but sometimes I refrain from commenting if I notice the domain isn't hexbear or lemmygrad because I'm not in the mood to argue with humorless libs

Not a chance. Fuck those other instances not lemmygrad

Pretty much never unless someone posts a link in dunk tank or something. I don't want to talk about stocks, sports, or do racisms so there's not much incentive to leave.

My experience on the site has improved massively since i've set my feed to Local only.

I've heard of punchable faces, and that was a punchable post.

real anarchism is when you let everyone be a shithead and have no aims to improve society, apparently

The structure of moderation with mods and admins able to unilaterally take action and the difficulty of organized resistance inevitably leads to abuses, which is what this community is about.

Organized resistance? Bro has never even heard of grass

This is frustrating to me. On Hexbear, mod applications are essentially a formality for keeping out trolls. Applications rarely get denied. The place is defacto run by whoever feels like they care enough and have enough time to put in the work. It’s a completely volunteer based position. And everything just runs for the majority of users. The most hierarchical part of the structure is imposed on us by the infrastructure of the internet because someone needs to pay for the server and the domain. Hexbear, the infamous tankie instance, is as close to a flat organization as you can get given the constraints. At the end of the day, some people just don’t like having any restrictions put on anything they do at all for any reason. And it sucks to see them turn that into a political ideology and make it everyone else’s problem that they can’t handle living in a community with already-established norms.

Authoritarian is the most useless, anti-meaningful word.

The structure of moderation with mods and admins able to unilaterally take action

ideally, every awful, hateful comment must be submitted to a committee made up equally of mods, admins, and users for moderation decisions.

every ban is the result of a super-majority vote of the committee

/s, just in case

love me some good ol'

So unruffled is still mad because he got banned from the ml trans comm over claiming is hexbear is anti trans because it doesnt allow libs