It's the dunk tank.
This is where you come to post big-brained hot takes by chuds, libs, or even fellow leftists, and tear them to itty-bitty pieces with precision dunkstrikes.
Rule 1: All posts must include links to the subject matter, and no identifying information should be redacted.
Rule 2: If your source is a reactionary website, please use archive.is instead of linking directly.
Rule 3: No sectarianism.
Rule 4: TERF/SWERFs Not Welcome
Rule 5: No ableism of any kind (that includes stuff like libt*rd)
Rule 6: Do not post fellow hexbears.
Rule 7: Do not individually target other instances' admins or moderators.
Rule 8: The subject of a post cannot be low hanging fruit, that is comments/posts made by a private person that have low amount of upvotes/likes/views. Comments/Posts made on other instances that are accessible from hexbear are an exception to this. Posts that do not meet this requirement can be posted to [email protected]
Rule 9: if you post ironic rage bait im going to make a personal visit to your house to make sure you never make this mistake again
I'm trans and I really don't want to federated with these people if their mods are defending the -tard suffix and they aren't getting de-modded and banned. I also don't want to be federated with them if they ban critiquing western chauvinism.
Someone who is an admin and with more of a level head than me RN please talk to their admins about it.
I see the critical point somewhere else. It's just not very fun managing an instance that gets bigger without getting anything in return. Especially once you establish values like freedom of speech and opinion and claim everyone is welcome to make an account, until people you don't want on your instance start joining. And that's when it spirals out of control, you start banning them because they make your experience as an admin worse, but then your users are not actually beholden to your relatively tiny instance and can go anywhere else. You're not Reddit where all the stuff happens, you're a lemmy instance and there's others right there.
Places like beehaw and lemmy world are now getting a lot of donations and maybe they'll start paying themselves with it as a side hustle, so we'll see. The reason places like lemmygrad and hexbear are fun to browse is because we're generally all in agreement. I don't mean that we don't disagree and form an echo chamber, but that we don't have to explain basic etiquette and generally don't flame and troll each other over nothing.
If you've been on Reddit you'll remember the dread you felt when receiving that little orange notification in your inbox.