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submitted 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) by Dirt_Owl@hexbear.net to c/chapotraphouse@hexbear.net

I've been here years and I'm still getting new ones that make me laugh

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[-] GenderIsOpSec@hexbear.net 79 points 5 days ago

"The only women here are women" is a wild take but ok bridget-pride-stay-mad

[-] Dirt_Owl@hexbear.net 38 points 5 days ago

Oof yeah our haters are always the nicest people hmm? Actually I might put a transphobia warning on this post because yeah it's oof.

[-] Ram_The_Manparts@hexbear.net 20 points 5 days ago

Wamen, am I right?

[-] newaccountwhodis@lemmy.ml 4 points 4 days ago

It is remarkable there are next to no cis women here no? I think this is a safe space for all FLINTA persons so why are there so few cis women?

[-] Lyudmila@hexbear.net 9 points 4 days ago

why are there so few cis women?

The explanation that used to go around was that it was because we started as a lifeboat from a subreddit. Reddit has disproportionately few cis women who are disproportionately likely to only post in female-majority subreddits.

However, it's been way too long since we were a subreddit for that to still be the reason for the underrepresentation on Hexbear, especially considering that there have been multiple large user influxes since then.

I have some kinda complex thoughts on this, but I think it's site culture related and there's been a lot of user pushback to change in that regard.

[-] newaccountwhodis@lemmy.ml 4 points 4 days ago

there’s been a lot of user pushback to change in that regard.

Damn shame, especially since there was a lot of change since this was a subreddit. For example, getting rid of the r-slur and its proponents made the site better imo

[-] ComradeSpahija@hexbear.net 72 points 5 days ago
[-] AernaLingus@hexbear.net 69 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

ngl I'm a little out of it and glossed over "but the users are so awful" the first time I read it and was just like "hell yeah" erm-this-you

[-] Dirt_Owl@hexbear.net 49 points 5 days ago

That's why it's funny, they make us sound so much cooler than we actually are

[-] AernaLingus@hexbear.net 29 points 5 days ago

I've literally seen this tagline before and up until just now I thought it was someone genuinely expounding about how rad Hexbear is lmao

[-] casskaydee@hexbear.net 61 points 5 days ago

"just ssh the root distro" - statements dreamed up by the utterly deranged

[-] un_mask_me@hexbear.net 58 points 5 days ago

I do this too, here's the most recent in my screenshots

[-] Mindfury@hexbear.net 47 points 5 days ago

Another particularly enjoyable one is the Hamas paraglider flying towards the Triforce or Angular Merkels angular-merkel

[-] vegeta1@hexbear.net 34 points 5 days ago

Never seen this lmao

[-] The_Filthy_Commie@lemmygrad.ml 4 points 4 days ago

Yeah, I saw that one recently, too and chuckled, because it has no context. It's just Willem Dafoe shidding his pants over the moon face from Majora's Mask.

[-] un_mask_me@hexbear.net 5 points 4 days ago

Makes you wonder where it was originally posted, and why. The great Hexbear mysteries persist.

[-] Lerios@hexbear.net 47 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

"the only women here are trans women" not true! some of us are trans men feminism

disclaimerthis is a joke about my specific mystery gender, not anyone else's. i am not implying that trans masc people in general are women, thats just me flag-lesbian-pride flag-non-binary-pride

[-] EllenKelly@hexbear.net 19 points 5 days ago

I am a trans woman who lives as a man 🤷‍♀️

[-] Ram_The_Manparts@hexbear.net 41 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

People say shit like "just ssh the root config distro"

Yeah, it's true. We say that shit so much, like any chance we get. All the time.

[-] thelastaxolotl@hexbear.net 44 points 5 days ago

Mods??? MODS?! They're making fun of me again for using my latin phrasebook in an argument :( you have to track them down and kill them!!!

i got this one some days ago for the first time, it was pretty funny

[-] EllenKelly@hexbear.net 11 points 5 days ago

regimus

spoilerI've hyperfocused and done a week of self lead Latin lessons 😅

[-] GrouchyGrouse@hexbear.net 41 points 5 days ago

I think my favorite ones are when I can't tell if it's some actual complaining about us or one of us mocking their complaints

[-] AcidSmiley@hexbear.net 27 points 5 days ago

You laugh, but this hits very close to home when your crush starts a conversation about linux distros for programming her model trains and then you vent about it and your gal pal enters the chat to say that she plans installing a dual boot system and which distro she should use for that and then your ex tells you about that vintage French computer she bought that's somehow linked to transfem culture deep lore. Like, i'm specifically dating the arts and humanities nerds to avoid this kind of stuff because i understand nothing about it and it still keeps happening.

[-] SexUnderSocialism@hexbear.net 20 points 4 days ago

Everything is fucking star trek, linux, and communism.

waow-based

[-] SoyViking@hexbear.net 29 points 5 days ago

I will not stand for this slander of our community! Some of it is only half-true!

[-] Dessa@hexbear.net 34 points 5 days ago

I always want to reply to the taglines

[-] FlakesBongler@hexbear.net 32 points 5 days ago

Forgetting the #1 rule of jokes

If you don't understand it just laugh anyway

[-] Dirt_Owl@hexbear.net 25 points 5 days ago

People just expect to walk into a community and instantly understand everything huh? I mean... they could just shut up and hang out for a while and I'm sure they'd pick up our dumb ass in jokes, but no it's always "I'vE BeEn HeRe fIVe SeConDs wHy iS eVerYoNe SaYinG UsInG PiG EmOtEs?!"

[-] Le_Wokisme@hexbear.net 17 points 5 days ago

remember we used to say "lurk more" and tie onions to our belts?

[-] EllenKelly@hexbear.net 15 points 5 days ago

Realising 'read theory' has the same vibe as 'lurk moar' lol

[-] Speaker@hexbear.net 8 points 5 days ago

Excited for "Thead reory" to catch on.

[-] Dirt_Owl@hexbear.net 12 points 5 days ago

It was the style at the time

[-] NephewAlphaBravo@hexbear.net 19 points 5 days ago

the best jokes are funny even when you don't understand the context

monkey sees joke-shaped communication -> neuron activation

[-] AshenWolf@hexbear.net 22 points 5 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

And there's the Hamas Base Steamed Hams one, that I don't have saved. And the one saying y'all will do communism without me. And the one calling me a liberal.

Edit: No way I just got it #visithexbeardotnet

[-] Are_Euclidding_Me@hexbear.net 20 points 5 days ago

I think my favorite might be "please wait warmly, folks are making tea". I don't know why, but it always gives me a little giggle

[-] ComradeSpahija@hexbear.net 28 points 5 days ago

"In response to the horse imagery, "

[-] NephewAlphaBravo@hexbear.net 14 points 5 days ago

"- I cast Force of Will, exiling Storm Crow"

[-] umbrella@lemmy.ml 26 points 5 days ago

i felt the need to comment for no other reason than this gave me a chuckle.

[-] TheaJo@hexbear.net 12 points 4 days ago

if you think about it theyre not even wrong

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