What's your favourite memory of Hexbear? (hexbear.net)

submitted 1 year ago by alexandra_kollontai@hexbear.net to c/chapotraphouse@hexbear.net

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A struggle session, a power poster, a 2020 Democrat debate, or anything that tickled your fancy... remind us all about it in this thread!

My favourite memory by far has got to be the ~week or so we spent speculating about the Silver Legion.

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[-] DroneRights@hexbear.net 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Hi, I'm one of the blahaj refugees pushed here by their transphobia. My account was two days old and I asked someone not to repeat transphobic propaganda, and I got banned by the admin. It was in a thread about how Hexbear was too woke and defederated Blahaj just for using slurs, and a bunch of bears told me to come here if I wanted to be accepted, so I did.

There was a whole heap of transphobia and ableism directed my way when I joined, but the difference between y'all and Blahaj is an open mind. Instead of getting banned for being a minority and wanting rights, I changed minds.

[-] sicklemode@hexbear.net 8 points 1 year ago

Very sorry you had to put up with such abuse, and I'm glad you found your way here.

There was a whole heap of transphobia and ableism directed my way when I joined

This is referring to Blahaj, right?

Instead of getting banned for being a minority and wanting rights, I changed minds.

We have your back here fidel-salute

I hope you've been enjoying your stay heart-sickle

[-] DroneRights@hexbear.net 7 points 1 year ago

This is referring to Blahaj, right?

No, bears thought my gender was too silly and that it must be a conservative joke, and they said my mental disorder isn't a disability and is okay to use as a pejorative on neurotypicals. This came from both users and mods. But I convinced the users to have a big long think about my mental disorder, and the mods believe in my gender now.

I'm used to being treated this way. To me, a safe space is somewhere I can fight for my rights and have some impact over time without being called political or argumentative. I was called a wrecker at first, but it's gone down since then.