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I'll repeat a comment that I said once about hexbear:

I can feel a deep fire burning in almost all of Hexbear’s comments, quite different from most communities that just whine without purpose.

They are more of community than the rest of Lemmy.

I have an account on Hexbear, I also mod their !parenting@hexbear.net community, which has been growing steadily. It's always wild to me to read what people think goes on at the site because, in my engagement with folks, it's clear that everyone is just someone trying to get by in this crazy world we live in. All this talk about "tankies" or whatever, is pretty "online" behavior, and Hexbear often appears to me the least online by comparison. Sure, we're active on the site, but I don't get the sense that many people are wildly active outside the site, many people have negative views on most social media and have no interest in it.

The other thing that people never seem to notice is just how active our !mutual_aid@hexbear.net community is, and just how generous the users can be. There is a real sense of community on Hexbear that I struggle to find on the wider internet. That probably has a lot to do with the relative size of the user base.

I have a Hexbear alt. I use it, ironically, when I don't want to talk politics, or if I want to keep up with the news, as the News mega is very useful.

A lot of people hold contradictory views about it, or think it's some hyper-toxic space, but in my experience its less toxic than most other instances on Lemmy and gets into far fewer arguments. I love using the games comm and other hobby comms.

I also run a Capital weekly reading thread there, though momentum was hurt by the debacle a few months back regarding domain name.

Just lurk there for a while. IMO, biggest misconception is that they're omnicidal lunatics. They have a lot of in-jokes and bits that seem incomprehensible and border on unhinged to an outsider, and sometimes they kinda lean in to the perception. But if you spend enough time there you realise they're very intelligent and deeply empathetic people. The "unlimited genocide on the first world" rhetoric is an expression of frustration rather than actual intent.

I'm subscribed to their tech, gaming, and news communities. They're fine, I don't care to make an account on their instance but nothing wrong with the Hexbear communities I subscribe to.

that hexbear supports the entirety of russia. a lot of times i hear stuff like "they don't actually care about queer people since they support russia", which is a gross oversimplification of their views. they hate russia's reactionary politics.

this misconception i think comes from the war in ukraine, in which if ukraine wins, they get to join nato. hexbear considers nato to be an imperialistic organisation that holds power towards a large portion of the world, and therefore, anything that opposes it should receive support, albeit critical.

Yeah, they're chill, idk. If you enjoy arguments and can handle some friction without breaking down, you'll fit right in, I think. The only main difference I've noticed is that they're a bit gayer than folks here, or at least talk about it more, and they don't use obvious American propaganda/party lines as the framework to understand the world.

hexbear is just fine. the "problem" with them is that they are leftists. same with lemmygrad or to a lesser extent lemmy.ml

i predict some people will hate a lot on them here, but you should simply just go talk to them and decide for yourself what you think of it.

Yeah I like some of the hexbear comms and sometimes participate. Vegan Theory Club is an offshoot of Hexbear after the great vegan struggle sessions of 2021 when my account there got banned. We're mainly a two discord servers called Vegan Theory Club and Vegan Home Cooks and we launched the lemmy more recently.

This account's instance federates with hexbear. Outside of politics and topics du jour, there's little difference between them and you or me.