Lemmygrad allows sectarianism. Hexbear does not.

Lemmygrad is explicitly Marxist-Leninist. Hexbear is left unity with a combination of marxists and anarchists in its userbase.

I saw that thread and I didn’t understand any context. To me you are a stranger.

I came here under the pseudonym I am most commonly remembered by as a peace gesture to a community which I have disrespected

So you are known as a bad card which according to your account is deserved. But you want to have a fresh start. Why not just go by a new handle? Otherwise, of course you will have to endure continuity with your prior behavior. Whatever that was.

Just because you do something “as a peace gesture” doesn’t mean anybody has any obligation to understand it as such or accept it. It’s very entitled to make such a demand. Whatever prior drama all this is founded in, I am guessing more will be to come.

I think the issue is that you made a post in which you asked about criticizing “revisionist” socialist states, which is the sticking point that got you banned from lemmygrad so many times in the past, as well as the last time you were on hexbear. If you really are interested in just chatting with people, maybe avoid conversations about revisionism or China, at least for a while, and show people that you aren’t here to rehash the same old struggle sessions.

On an unrelated note: the last time you were around you weren’t using she/her pronouns, so I want to say congratulations on taking that step and trying to more fully be yourself. It’s a scary but lovely process, growing up.

Yes, it is too much to ask right out of the gate. Stick around and engage with good faith and you might just earn some community trust. Don’t just demand it from day one knowing full well what baggage you’re bringing

Without knowing of your supposed past sins according to some users: welcome aboard.

Hexbear can be a bit toxic towards newcomers because we get our fair share of libs accusing us regularly of “le genocide denial” or “auforitarian redfash”. We’re a bit on a hair trigger, and we often fire too much and too early, which is something the community should think about. Sorry about any distress, and hope you enjoy your stay :)

I was wondering what was going on with “Oh, that one user everyone involved in prolewiki complains about” or whichever one it was (I don’t remember the specific complaints people had and don’t care). I actually got accused of being you on an alt once! Maybe twice, but the second time was a joke. I felt like it would be rude to ask because you have indeed been very nice here.

I’m sorry that people were mean to you, the userbase has a serious problem with pretending that antisocial behavior is Good, Actually. There was a period where it came up frequently in arguments but not as much for me recently. I think this is more evidence that “Bullying Works” is just detrimental as a mindset.

I fully believe people can learn and grow and abusing someone for someone who they aren’t anymore is reactionary behavior (incidentally in this kind of space, abusing someone for who they are instead of either engaging in good faith or just banning them is also reactionary)

I have problems with my internet use. Every hour, sometimes half-hour, I check back into Hexbear.

OOOOOOOH, look at Ms. Fancypants over here who touches grass, sometimes for up to an hour!

…Jokes aside, I honestly have no idea what your old account was or what you did to get on the proverbial naughty list, and unless you really manage to irk the moderators, don’t worry about it. Come for the memes, stay for the occasional burst of theory, and for the love of Lenin, remember the adage “no investigation, no right to speak” when it comes to criticizing AES states, and you’ll fit in just fine. Also, unlike 'grad, this is a left unity instance, so please refrain from trash-talking other leftist tendencies. We’re all comrades here. Even that one unironic Gonzaloite; they make a hell of a seafood boil.

Edit: Ah, shit-stirring sockpuppet edit wars on ProleWiki? lol. lmao, even. Yeah, welcome home. Just save it for the actual reactionaries or else we’ll make you a moderator of an unpopular containment comm.

I genuinely don’t remember you but if I was an asshole then sorry about that

I think sometimes we get a bit too jumpy, myself included

Unless somebody comes in here spouting straight up anti communist or fascist shit I try to remain non hostile and view Hexbear as the safe zone where there isn’t any PvP (or at least a way lower likelihood of being invaded)

In these times when it has become more apparent than ever and more obvious than ever that the west is ran by monstrous pedophiles, I welcome anyone who understands this fundamental truth and that it means that was always evil and deserves all the hate it gets from us and so much more

Anyway my edibles hiit pretty hard while I was writing this, thank you

I think you should make a post asking about what we think about China next

I felt like I was behaving questionably in the thread you’re referring to, even before you deleted it: Asking about your username was supposed to be a character test of sorts — more specifically I was wondering about it because it reminded me of “Midwestern Marx”, I should say — but I employed that character test way too early, without knowing more about your circumstances with respect to e.g. relative age and neurotype, and this misstep ended up causing you distress for the sake of test results that aren’t even useful. So my behavior in that thread I think reflects poorly on my relationship to “herd mentality” and long-term justice: although I was trying to bear in mind that I don’t know anything about you or whether others’ skepticism or ire is justified or not, I think the awareness of some sort of “communal bad blood”, even if I didn’t understand it, still made me less courteous than I should’ve been.

Going forward, I should always try to establish a person’s relative age and neurotype compared to myself before further interacting with them or referring to them publicly. This should hopefully allow me to treat the person in question more sensitively and appropriately.

Long term, I need to interrogate more properly how to combat the influence of “herd mentality” on my own behavior, and I need to interrogate the broader cultural and dynamic reasons why “herd mentality” is able to influence my behavior, and how the broader culture and social dynamics can be changed to minimize this issue of “herd mentality”. This has been a point of concern for me for a long time, and also one of the most difficult points to address, as it goes to the very core of human psychology.

“I am not here to make drama”.

Makes a post that will obviously cause lots of drama.

You very well may have been mistreated. While im not making an excuse for it, i do want to say its almost unavoidable on lemmy from what i can tell.

Its easier said then done but try not to take it personally.

Alot of people take out their anger on randoms in comments here. It doesnt really have anything to do with the person receiving the hate. Do you get what i mean ?

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