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Hexbear is dying.
ⓘ This user is suspected of being a cat. Please report any suspicious behavior.
The new bear struggles to be born.
Now is the time of posters.
I've started trying to comment to keep it going a bit. Where are the other users leaving to?
If other users are anything like me they may feel like they have reached the limits of online posting, I think about leaving here but I wouldn't go to another forum I would just start posting IRL
I feel like also a leftist alternative didn't exist online before, so this space satisfied that. Nowadays leftism has become more mainstream and there's big pages on mainstream social media platforms that engage with it.
I still appreciate Hexbear's ML roots, it really cuts a lot of shit out, would hate to see it fully disappear.
I also just think the core user base (myself included) just grew up. I'm now a person with so many responsibilities and aims in life that I don't have time to post anymore.
There's plenty of hobbies I love to discuss that I have, that I still go to Reddit for because it's got more activity. I don't need a leftist perspective on Marvel Rivals, I guess.
I just spend 16 hours a day in some combination of work and/or fugue state
I just do other things irl.
I guess I am "lucky" in the sense that I haven't witnessed the height of activity and I am still satisfied. I don't want to spend too much time anywhere so at the moment hexbear delivers pretty much what I want in terms of news. There could be more commenting going on, then again there often is not much to add to a news article. It really won't help anyone if I write 'death to isnotreal' under every article about the entity.
Oh man, federation was the shit back in the day. What a mess, loved it through and through.