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I lift a lot of stuff from it because they have their finger on the pulse of slop. But like I've seen a lot of casual antisemitism coming from them whenever anything jewish adjacent pops up. Ableism too, like real bad, slurs and all. Yes I know reddit and all that, but it feels like hexbear is the only place on the net not infected by shit.

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[–] Nopeace@hexbear.net 50 points 5 days ago (4 children)

Hexbear is pretty much the only Internet place I still respect. Ofc it's not perfect but I swear there's not a single other Internet third space that's actually principled

[–] FourteenEyes@hexbear.net 25 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Every other social media platform is the YouTube comments section and should be treated as such

[–] Aradino@hexbear.net 8 points 5 days ago (1 children)

The entire world is a YouTube comments section

[–] 666PeaceKeepaGirl@hexbear.net 9 points 5 days ago

Hexbear is real life, everything else is computer. When someone tells you to touch grass what they are actually saying is that you should post more on the bear site

[–] RondoRevolution@hexbear.net 21 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Hard agree, even other supposed leftist spaces have all kinds of bs and or ableism that keeps pissing me off or at least making me tired. Today I had 2 Portuguese mad at me and being racist in a post about GTA lol, and saw some members of the clan I'm in in Warframe discussing fucking eugenics because someone bought up some bs Switzerland is doing, good thing me and another user were countering the bs there.

[–] SorosFootSoldier@hexbear.net 22 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

Yeah nowhere is perfect but at least we put in the work to not be scumbums sometimes.

[–] 9to5@hexbear.net 21 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (2 children)

Im certain there are various discords and even smaller forums that enforce no slur usage but as I said most of those arent Marxist or even leftwing afaik.

[–] Letztertod@hexbear.net 1 points 2 days ago

That doesn't guarantee a place free of ableism especially, disability is kind of a litmus test to see if a person is good or some level of enthralled in status quo, if they want a sick person to live a comfortable enough life while contributing whatever said person can then they're good and if they say anything adjacent to "well they need to represent themselves well, they need to dress and speak normally" they're fucked up on some level and want to do eugenics to an extent if they can.

[–] kristina@hexbear.net 31 points 5 days ago (2 children)
[–] ClathrateG@hexbear.net 18 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

i thought we were taosits against hentai hentai-free

[–] GalaxyBrain@hexbear.net 8 points 5 days ago

It's the only place thst still kinda feels like web 1.0. I still think we should be a BBS style forum.