Hexbear appreciation comment:

My instance doesn't defederate as a general rule. It has its upsides and downsides -- I still have dbzer0 and lemmygrad, but I also have to put up with occasional bullshit from exploding heads and similar. Gotta say it's nice having you folks pop up in my feed to balance out the bad takes.

Every time a user from another instance like @Pandantic@midwest.social comes here to ask us genuine good faith questions and is clearly intellectually curious and willing to learn, it warms my heart.

Gotta say I have much enjoyed my time here so far

No weird socially conservative "communism"

No state department brained liberal "socialism"

Only good takes and unironically based people

im gay lol

I am just proud of how welcoming and wholesome Hexbear has been towards anyone and everyone who comes in with an open mind, how well-sourced and carefully worded everyone's discussion has been. It has proven handily to me that all these bad-faith, close-minded libs visiting and complaining about this community being toxic or disingenuous are simply not willing to engage in genuine discussion. The huge threads with people asking questions and getting the most solid, coherent answers one can ask for bring a deep warmth to my heart.

So as someone who's been part of the CTH / Hexbear community for several years, I wanna welcome all those people. I hope you can make it through all the insanely preposterous meme shit and learn some things that you won't learn anywhere else. Always remember that above everything else, what Hexbears want is what real communists want: for humanity to be united and uplifted through goodhearted cooperation.

I’ve learned a lot from lurking the unfettered conversation that happens here, subjects that I’ve never heard of discussed in great detail. The shitposting is next level. Just a great mix of leftie content here. Also, the site logo is fire.

You guys are the cool commie friends I wish to have, and I'm sad I haven't met you guys before. Such a happy place to get some ~~GOOD OL' MURICAN~~ freedom from all the lib crap we endure daily ❤️✨

Been lurking for a few months but this is first online space I haven't gotten those fucked vibes from

I'm still getting through my list of theory so I don't feel confident joining certain conversations yet but I'd like to think being open-minded to deprogramming all the western propaganda bullshit I've ingested over a lifetime has helped me discover this community

New user not really contributing atm, but I found my way here from exploring lemmy and hearing all the controveries.

What I've enjoyed the most so far is seeing my preconceptions of internet leftism challenged and corrected. I checked out cth and genzedong back before reddit banned both and always thought it was simply full of antagonistic lefties who just wanted to troll libs. Honestly, it put a bad taste in my mouth and made me sad about the state of the left.

Being around here for a few days has shown me how absolutely wonderful everyone is as well as how deep conversations can go when yall have your own space free from constant lib attack. It's easy to see how I attributed the antagonism wrong and that it was simply defense against lib brigades. In hindsight, wish I would have just dug a little deeper back then and be partying with y'all since.

I've already learned so much lurking and look forward to learning more and interacting with all you beautiful people.

I just got here from Lemm.ee - I was watching the defederation drama unfold and just kept thinking 'dang, these comrades are based as fuck, I joined the wrong instance!' Anyway I'm here now, reporting for duty!

Very excited to have you aboard!

No ableism

Don't forget, if you need to you can disengage from a conversation at any time, just say disengage if you ever need to, if users don't respect that they get banned on the spot o7

Please post, please ask questions, and remember

John Brown did nothing wrong unlimited bloodshed against Slave Owners

I am but a new lil' guy. I've bounced around on beehaw (jumped that libship posthaste), lemmy.ml and lemm.ee for a couple of months now to see what feels right and wanted to check out the hexbear. Good so far, lemmy.ml was a bit too techy for my liking and soooo inundated with users. Lemmy.ml and lemm.ee were also too lib for me. I just gotta subscribe to some other non political communities to even my experience out and I think I'd like to call this instance home 🥺

Really want to thank a lot of the users who have put so much time, energy and thoughtfulness into answering some pretty basic questions about communism. It's been rad to lurk and learn and just observe how chill and friendly the vibe has been. Also stoked for emojis

PS I also typo like a madman so I apologize in advance

Finally made an account after lurking for the past few months. This community is one of the few corners of the internet that doesn't give me psychic damage. Hello, comrades, thank you for the warm welcome and for being cool people on a cool bear website.

Hello, made an account here since the lame instance I was in only federate with other lame instances. I'm exited to post all my bad takes.