Even though federation has led to racists and/or NATO defenders showing up, I’ve also encountered a number if very cool people from other instances posting things like helpful advice on federation stuff, vivid descriptions of getting vored by a pack of anthro-hyenas, interesting insights and opinions on Star Trek lore, etc. I still haven’t found much in the way of active hobby communities, but it’s pretty cool to see more Star Trek and furry stuff in the timeline, and I feel it makes having to deal with the occasional deranged lib worth it.
Anyways, to all the genuinely cool people who wander into Hexbear threads, I’m very glad you’ve showed up to bless us with your wonderful posts and I hope you stick around.
I had no idea where the r/CTH people went after the reddit ban. Kinda forgot about the community since its been so long.
But I was pleasantly surprised when I saw random Hexbear posts popping up. It’s good to see political shitposts that I agree with.
I’ll definitely be sticking around. And I hope you enjoy the furry porn.
Lol… I have no idea what this means. I gotta work on understanding the in-jokes.
You know those creeps who call themselves “incels”? That is short for “involuntary celibate”. “Volcel” is a term made in response, “voluntary celibate”. “Volcel police” was made as a joke for reducing horny-posting.
Ah, so aces who like the aesthetics of incels.
Well, I think the term originally came from volcels as one of their many ways to decry a type of “fake” incel, but now it’s a joke regarding people being horny on main (and that being annoying and often creepy).
not the aesthetics, just reducing the amount of horny posting when there’s too many cishet men around.
On r/CTH, whenever someone’s comment included the phrase volcel police, AutoModerator would respond with
Like here, for example
lmao i miss this
I still think we should bring back most of the old automod comments
I would enjoy this
deleted by creator
What I will miss though: criticizing China from the left
It is already difficult to do so on Chinese internet because of the censorship and periodic crackdowns (though there are still pockets of QQ groups you can join if you know where to look for them), and pre-federated Hexbear was really one of the last places on the internet where you could have a frank discussion on China without too much propagandized brainworms.
Now I find myself refraining from talking about China because of so many racist libs spouting nonsense propaganda.
I’m hoping we get a local only general purpose discussion comm for stuff like this
until we get local comms for it, news mega might be a good place to put this stuff as it’s basically only us and a few folks from lemmygrad in there.
c/sino is an appropriate place to discuss China. if you see sinophobic bullshit, report it and we’ll make sure it’s dealt with. and criticism from the left is fine; it just needs to be sincere/well-intentioned.
also, for general or casual discussions, including China or whatever, c/chat is also fine. again, we run it and we’ll make sure it doesn’t get out of hand, especially if you can help us out but reporting bad actors.
@silent_water@hexbear.net @Parsani@hexbear.net
I feel this even more for Russia right now. Can’t say anything bad about them or the dronies will take it as a reason the US is justified in fighting them to the last Ukranian.
For what it’s worth, most threads criticizing China on lemmygrad seldom have liberals interfering. I’m not sure why, but my guess is that threads criticizing China go against the narratives they often use to dismiss leftist ideas.
once we simmer down, we’ll get back to the true internal struggle sessions and left-criticisms
Hey I’m sorry to hear you feel this way i would be super curious to hear that stuff and would absolutely not tolerate racist libs spouting nonsense
I was very skeptical I’ll admit, but yeah not only are these dunk threads the funniest shit in the world but yeah we’ve also been getting cool new comrades joining Hexbear because .world won’t let them see our magnificent posting energy.
Imagine what it must be like to be in a thread where everyone is talking about Hexbear and you can’t see any of the posts lol.
Big beautiful posting energy. Some say the best.
Your username is incredible.
The one time I agree with the volcel police.
The only way hobby communities will become active is through member contribution, just saying. I mod a couple, one that has 500+ subs yet I’m commonly the only one populating it. We need more nerds helping.
My hobby projects (mostly 3D printing and related) have been pretty slow since moving across the country for work, then getting laid off and having to move again, but I’ll hopefully be back at it soon enough.
Not sure if it counts but I’ve also been getting back into Blender/Unity for VRChat avatar stuff, which is fun. Maybe I should post about that when my avatar is decent enough to show off.
deleted by creator
This I still haven’t been able to wrap my head around, sorry. I’ve seen a couple threads explaining the nuances of federation propagation, but it’s always just kind of flown over my head.
it’s apparently as soon as someone subscribes. there’s a script we can run to automatically populate comms.
I was aware of this, but am unsure of a really good way to search for that sort of thing. I’ve looked through the joinlemmy page and haven’t found much that really fits that, but it would be nice if there were someway to browse individual communities instead of just instances.
use the search to look for comms?
I’m trying by commenting on any niche community/post that pops up with constructive comments
It’s been good for other instances as well. @Nagarjuna@hexbear.net has helped someone not die over on !mycology@mander.xyz.
https://hexbear.net/comment/3717632
:confusion:
Why are so many of our comrades mushroom experts?
Well, if you want to grow psilocybin, it helps to learn the process on a legal mushroom like am oyster. And then you start to notice them on hikes and you’re like “what else is out here?” So you start looking things up and…
I’m not convinced they’re not just gonna eat that
Fair. Your contribution is none-the-less welcome.
deleted by creator
I love you guys too! I know federation has been hard on your community, but whatever happens, I hope at least we remain federated.
deleted by creator
The additional Star Trek stuff has been an unexpected treat.
Shouldn’t you be more wary of the unexpected, Redshirt?
I’m feeling pretty confident these days. My CO says I’m up for a promotion after our next mission to the Murder Nebula.
startrek.website might be the only good thing that came out of the reddit protests
Semi-funny story: I had a comment deleted in one of their non-shitposting comms because I called JJ Abrams and Alex Kurtzman hacks. Apparently that wasn’t “nice” or “constructive”. I apologized, I didn’t mean to pee in their pool, but goddamn, how horny can you be for civility?
I didn’t think JJ Abrams being a talentless hack was a source of any real debate?
Nor did I, but the rules in that particular comm were “constructive comments only” and “be nice to literally every human on the planet or don’t say anything at all”. To quote The Big Lebowski “at least it’s an ethos” 🤷♂️
easily the best comment on the site in ages
Holy shit
They won’t tell you this.
They don’t want you to know.
The girl reading this is great, actually
well I’m not a furry, I don’t have a vore fetish, and I don’t watch Star Trek so there’s been very little net gain for me lol
deleted by creator
I don’t hate it or anything, just not my thing I guess
deleted by creator
My favorite genre is probably horror, especially from the 70s and 80s. Mysteries and thrillers if they’re done well, or anything with a moody atmosphere. Big fan of David Lynch, Blue Velvet is probably my favorite movie.
I also like comedy, especially silly absurdist stuff like Wet Hot American Summer or Hot Rod.
edit: also dark fantasy stuff like Pan’s Labyrinth
Oh yeah, this feeling of coming home and starting to watch a David Lynch movie that started some unknown time ago. Real trippy. Then you watch it awake again and feel the same though. Lol.
Mulholland Drive is the ultimate fever dream movie
no more half measures walter
Caught in 4k
Communist anthro-hyenas. They had standards.