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They aren’t as bad as I thought they’d be but some of them really are too combative. I’ve seen them get into arguments with people for not being the correct type of left I don’t know how to respond to them because I’m not a polisci or world history major.
I’m also pretty tired of those huge emojis. The pig butt thing was funny maybe once. I don’t know what the right answer is I’d just wish they would chill.
The emote problem seems like it'd be really annoying, I've stopped using them when I'm not on hexbear communities (though sometimes I forget what instance I'm on sorry in advance).
As for the "wrong type of leftist" sort of stuff, hexbear tries to be a big tent community for leftists (we've got all sorts over there although it's admittedly heavily leaning towards marxist-leninists) and it tends to be a much more welcoming site outside of those overcrowded threads on active where everyone is arguing.
Hopefully the chaos will die down soon enough.
Can you help me see the appeal of hexbear? I took a look before knowing any of this stuff about the instance(saw it in everything and had a look around). Reading how some users describe it (pro-trans, inclusive, not a US echo chamber) and being LGBT, having a trans husband and poly, and finds pro capitalism stuff kinda tiring I thought it would be a good fit for me but...as I look at posts on hot and the comments I see a lot that makes me uneasy.
Comments about how a user was talking with "euro trash". The impression that if I'm not pro Russia then I must be pro America is something I see in the few Russia/Ukraine posts I read through.
Like..I'm very much anti capitalism and while I don't know how far left I go I can't understand how the community can say Ukraine should surrender to save lives and not become a US puppet when surely they'd just become a Russian puppet instead?
If what hexbear users say about the friendliness and inclusiveness it sounds like a group of people I'd love to chat with, but with what I see when I go there myself I just don't see it. Yeah I haven't seen any antilgbt of users but that's kinda it
The popular consensus on Hexbear is anti-NATO, rather than pro-Russia. If this is a sticking point for you, I don't think you will agree much with the average users on geopolitics.
But, as long as you stay out of the news megathread, you likely won't see much discussion of the war on Hexbear.