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What is Hexbear? (hexbear.net)
submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by CARCOSA@hexbear.net to c/hexbear@hexbear.net
 
 

My answer:

When chapotraphouse was banned on reddit many mods and users came together to create a space on a link aggregator platform.

Choosing lemmy the original admin and developer team decided to fork it for various reasons. About a year ago, sustained effort was taken to upstream many of the forked features so that we could rebase with current version lemmy and federate.

Over the years hexbear has become a non-sectarian social media space for sharing news, memes, links, posts and comments with each other as the mods endeavour to make the space welcoming to marginalized people.

Terms of Service | Code of Conduct | Modlog | Allow-list | PPB

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There is currently a 2 pronoun limit. I have talked with a some people over the months who have wished to have more than that.

As far as I am concerned, simply removing the line and going back to just an 80 char limit (which depending on the length of the pronoun sets limits you to a max of about 10/11) is good (and I would happily work on the ui to add more dropdowns if needed). But if that doesn't work lets figure out what else we can do.

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Wasn't sure who to ping, figured I'd create a thread.

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Maybe like 50% of the time when I go to post a comment it hangs, and then when I finally refresh the page I get a "TypeError". Happens on desktop and mobile, just started within the last week I'd say? Happening to anyone else?

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honestly just a general meme dump thread for my mental helf would be fun

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Our lives changed suddenly and everything was lost. We are trying to get back on our feet, and every support from you adds hope and eases our burden. Every little help makes a difference and reminds us that we are not alone during this difficult time

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I DID THE UPDATE to the applications.

They're LIVE LIVE LIVE

you can view them when you go to make a new account

please don't use this as an opportunity to make new accounts.

or do, whatevs.

but ANSWER THE DAMN PROMPS OR I'LL DENY YOUR FUNNY COOL USERNAMES

edit: I'll leave this up for the rest of the day to let everyone know its done. I'll probably leave this unlocked so if anyone else wants to drop by and improve a translation or add a new one they can pop by and drop it in instead of making a whole new post or DMing me. not that's gonna stop anyone from doing exactly that lmao either one's fine.

old message

Hi folks, its me. hog-post

I'm stealing the top of the website for a few days because a thought occurred to me a while back that goes along the lines of "damn, we really haven't updated the application for a hot minute haven't we?" also "damn we're getting quite a few international folks in but they might not know what the lingo and abbreviations in the application really mean"

which leads me to this post: shocked-dino

A general poll on what languages hexbear users know... (read: I'm too lazy to figure out how to do an actual poll thingy so I'll just tally up everyones comments. Also don't be a smartass and say "English lol" angery )

And, arguably more exciting, a general request to our multilingual users to help translate the application into their language in order to help other possible new folks to know what we're all about. (Also a general discussion on whether or not this is a good idea. I got a thumbs up from the others in the cabal of evil admins but I'm playing fast and loose with this because I had just drank a bunch of coffee when I wrote this up and I was vibrating like a hairless chihuahua walking through a park in fall. silly-liberator )

To remind people what the application looks like, it's the following three sentences.

How did you find out about Hexbear, and why do you want to join?

Why did you choose your username?

What are your views on Gender and Sexual Minorities [GSM] / LGBTQ rights, racial justice, animal liberation, and similar movements?

So to summarize, Im bored, im curious what languages everyone speaks, and I'm looking for volunteers to translate the application into their native tongue so future applicants can have an easier time understanding what the site's about. The translated versions will be contained in spoilers so as to ensure the whole application page doesn't look densely bloated like me after eating oatmeal kiryu-dame-da-ne

secret to be emojid folder no lookhttps://hexbear.net/pictrs/image/78b8cfd8-a5c4-49e8-b86e-f3fa9f592218.png chunk 32

https://hexbear.net/pictrs/image/bf320052-d366-4395-bcfd-39541cca4956.png fubuki stonk

https://hexbear.net/pictrs/image/8cb6a46f-2d01-4f15-ac6b-c8597dc01738.png just as planned

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Hi I'm new to this forum. How do I set up my feed so if I view a post it auto-hides? This way when I'm scrolling through my feed I don't scroll through the same things every time

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Basically I can’t see what I’m typing because the text input field goes completely black. It’s definitely an iOS problem on this site at least. Does anyone else have this problem? I don’t know if this is a specific setting or what

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submitted 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) by blunder@hexbear.net to c/hexbear@hexbear.net
 
 

EDIT: This is available in settings already!!!


Small QoL improvement and hopefully trivial to implement, personally I'd greatly prefer this, I often want to go back to a thread after reading an article and having them side by side makes it easier.

Idk if this is a hexbear or lemmy thing or what. Or if we have anti-new-tab partisans in our midst deeply-reactionary

I support our brave devs rat-salute programming-communism

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i can find them when using a client like Boost for Lemmy, but i can't find them when I'm on hexbear.

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cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/6100859

My name is Soliman, a young student from Gaza.

For months, my family and I have been displaced, living without a safe home, without stability, and with the constant fear of tomorrow.

We once had a small farm with olive and citrus trees. It wasn’t just our source of income — it was a place full of dreams and memories. Today, it is gone, and survival has become our only daily goal.

As the eldest son, I carry the responsibility of helping my parents and younger siblings. We are in urgent need of food, clean water, clothing, and a safe shelter, especially with winter approaching.

Every small donation will directly help us cover our basic needs and bring us closer to living with dignity again. Your kindness means the world to us.

👉 GoFundMe – Surviving an Onslaught

With gratitude,

Soliman

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@PorkrollPosadist@hexbear.net

I haven't been able to log in in days.

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  • If I try to upload into Body - after a few seconds the process stops.

  • If I try to upload into comment. It's the same - after a few seconds the process stops.

  • In a post if I try to use "Image" and upload - the spinner never stops spinning. That's the case for this post itself too.

  • If I put a Imgur link into Thumbnail URL - the image doesn't appear. An example vvv

Post - https://hexbear.net/post/5957276

Image - https://i.imgur.com/2f7cEkQ.gif

I'm on a desktop.

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Edit 1

The site changed the image link to vvv

https://hexbear.net/api/v3/image_proxy?url=https%3A%2F%2Fi.imgur.com%2F2f7cEkQ.gif

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Edit 2

Everything seems okay now. That was fast.

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The simplest would just be to add "see bio" to the pronoun drop-down, but more ideally this would be something you could check to add to the end of your pronouns, e.g. Erika3sis [she/her, xe/xem (see bio)]

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!leftymemes@lemmy.dbzer0.com

https://hexbear.net/c/leftymemes@lemmy.dbzer0.com vs https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/c/leftymemes

Last post is from ~1 year ago on hexbear

^sorry^ ^if^ ^this^ ^is^ ^the^ ^wrong^ ^place^ ^to^ ^post^ ^this^

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(obviously it's ok that this user got banned, it's just the switch2boycott/andjusticeforall/basedball or whatever person who has said transphobic things in the past, that's not my point)

In the post in question, there was never any indication that the girlfriend character was not a girl, and I hope that the Hexbear mod team can at least recognize that it's possible for a person to both be a girl and nonbinary at the same time.

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I feel like comments have dropped a lot in this last few days. I see some, though, so they're not all getting eaten, but it seems eerily quiet.

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It seems it expired

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cross-posted from: https://lemmygrad.ml/post/8603413

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Full text below with better formatting:

Extract from the Resolution of the 19th Congress of the CPRF “On Restoring Full Historical Justice with Regard to Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin”

July 23, 2025

[Joseph] Vissarionovich Stalin occupies a special place in people’s memory. His image ranks with those of the great ancestors who formed the glory and might of the Motherland and saved our people from enslavement and death. His name is forever inscribed in history side by side with that of the founder of the Soviet statehood, Vladimir Ilyich Lenin.

Today, even as the collective West and NATO are mounting an aggression against Russia, Lenin and Stalin stand together in the ranks of the fighters for the freedom and independence of our Motherland. The Soviet people have never disowned Stalin. Party members and non- members alike cherish the image of a demanding and just leader and the victories scored under his leadership will forever remain in the history of our country.

Shortly after Stalin’s death, on the initiative of N.Khruschev, a dirty campaign was launched to smear his name and belittle his contribution to the cause of Victory in the Great Patriotic War and the recovery of our country. Counting on gaining cheap popularity, N.S. Khruschev roundly criticized the results of the 30 years of Stalin’s rule. His destructive activity in exposing the “personality cult” seriously undermined the international authority of the USSR and became a generous gift to the enemies of Soviet power because it prompted many questions and gave rise to differences among the friends and allies of the [USSR in] the world arena. [And yet the objective lack of materials besmirching] Stalin’s name and cause and the fact of deliberate removal of authentic documents from state archives and planting of fakes in it has been proven. [The fact of “cleaning up” of archive documents under Gorbachev] and Yeltsin has been established. Heavy damage was inflicted on the cause of socialism by the second wave of “destalinization” connected with the decisions of the 22nd Congress of the CPSU.

Marxism-Leninism teaches us that the only right way for the communists is the way of historical truth. It must be known, protected and restored. The life and struggle of Stalin, like those of any historical figure, were not devoid of shortcomings and contradictions. But errors and miscalculations were in many cases rectified on his own initiative to form the basis of further strengthening of socialist legality. Even all the abuses in the life of the party and the country taken together cannot outweigh Stalin’s role in defending the Leninist course, ensuring the unity of communists, building up the industrial might of the USSR and organizing resistance to the Fascization of Europe. His contribution to the Great Victory over German Nazism and Japanese militarism is colossal. Meanwhile as cribbing setbacks to a single person, even an outstanding one, is incompatible with the party or scientific approach to history. The leadership of the party and state was conscious of the fallacy of [Khruschev’s actions]. As a result, he was removed from his posts.

In the years when the party and country were led by L.I.Brezhnev “the personality cult” ceased to dominate the assessment of Stalin’s historical role. Some important steps were afoot on the initiative of K.U. Chernenko on the eve of the 40th anniversary of the Great Victory. But full historical justice was not restored. The election of M.S.Gorbachev as [General] Secretary at the March 1985 Plenary session of the CCCPSU marked the starting point of a man-made crisis within the party, followed by a criminal dismantling of the USSR.

The CPRF in its work more than once assessed Khruschev’s “decrowning” of Stalin as politically harmful and morally wrong. True communists and our allies can subscribe to the words of the legendary Stalin Defense Minister, Marshall D.F. Ustinov: “No enemy has done as much harm to us as Khruschev through his policy toward the past of our party and state and the attitude to Stalin.” The CPRF, being an ideological heir to the RSDLP – RSDLP (B)- RCP (B)- AUCP (B)-CPSU –CPRSFSR, is consistently fighting against falsification of the history of the great Soviet era.

The time has come to declare the need to restore the full historical justice with regard to [Joseph] Vissarionovich Stalin. The 19th Congress of the CPRF deems it necessary:

  • to assess N.S.Khruschev’s report “On the Cult of Personality and its Consequences” delivered to the delegates of the 20th CPSU Congress on February 25, 1956 already after the Congress closed, as erroneous and politically biased. The text of the report contains doctored facts and false charges against [J.V.] Stalin, distorting the truth about his state and party activities;

  • to recognize that the resolutions and decisions of the 22nd CPSU Congress concerning the assessment of the role and place of Stalin in the history of the party and the country were destructive and caused great harm to the building of socialism in the USSR and the world communist movement;

  • to call on President Putin of the Russian Federation to return to the city of Volgograd and the Volgograd Oblast their heroic names Stalingrad and the Stalingrad Oblast. The decisions on renaming them were ungrounded. They do not contribute to preserving the historical memory and the solution of Russia’s strategic tasks of defeating neo-Nazism, protecting the sovereignty and national security;

  • the CPRF committees of all levels and the party’s information services to make active use of this resolution in covering topical issues of ideological struggle. To develop and introduce a relevant study course in the system of party- political instruction;

  • to carry on the work to immortalize the memory of [J.V.] Stalin, research and propagandize his theoretical and practical legacy and actualize it in the activities of the CPRF and left-patriotic forces at the present stage.

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Opened the site while pooping and was greeted with

Go back to lemmy.ml you hexbear CCP cocksucker.

Very funny, but i think it would be better to remove taglines that contain offensive rhetoric

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submitted 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) by InevitableSwing@hexbear.net to c/hexbear@hexbear.net
 
 

Is there a "message the mods" link? I wanted to made a suggestion in another comm but where do I send it?

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I wanted to make the thumb a silly snail mail image but when I googled I learned there's a ~~band~~ musician with that name so I ran with it.

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What is a Voidling? Voidling is about being a subculture that has branched out from Voidpunk. While Voidpink centers on being nonhuman, Voidlings focus on The Void. Voidpunk says "If you treat me nonhuman then maybe I am" vs Voidlings who are like "I am nonhuman because I am The Void".

A being could be A Voidling if they feel they are have an identity with The Void. What is The Void? It is a promoridial force of nature that is about the silence of fhe Universe. You can feel like you have a natural affinity for The Void (Void Born) or feel that you are merging with it (Void Merger).
There is more information about Voidlings! []()

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I do not enjoy seeing ignoramuses' several-paragraph-long rants about "tankies" when checking the front page. Ideally, it would be possible to disable only that type of tagline, while leaving other taglines be.

I don't know if other people have already proposed this — I can't imagine I'm alone in feeling this way, but I also can't easily find anyone else who's made this suggestion.

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