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It must be said again: Hexbear is one of the few good spaces on the internet (hexbear.net)

submitted 1 month ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Like I don't really use any other social media, but sometimes (like this past week) I venture outside of my hexbear bubble and I browse twitter, or reddit, or instagram, or tiktok, and holy shit I just browse those websites for a minute or two and feel worse about myself, worse about the world, it honestly seems like everyone on those sites is completely insufferable and every post is designed in some CIA laboratory to make me irrationally angry. Like look, sometimes we can all get annoyed at each other here, and I am no exception to that, and nowhere is perfect, but wow this place is 1000% better than like the majority of the internet, I honestly don't know how people go through life at this point browsing the regular internet.

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[–] [email protected] 42 points 1 month ago (5 children)

Hexbear is one of the few good spaces on the internet

There are others?

[–] [email protected] 52 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Lemmygrad. We exist :kitty-cri:

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 month ago (1 children)

oh yup! I forget that it is a separate space because I access it through Hexbear.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I still don't know how to browse other instances 'from' HB. Like, I can get to individual comms and still be logged in, but not the homepage? Do you just sub to all the comms and view from subscribed?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I've only ever done it one comm at a time. Sometimes I hitch a ride into a different comm with a user that has a good take.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

That's kinda how the internet used to be.

That is genuinely wholesome.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 month ago

they-were-comrades love our lemmygrad comrades.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

meow-hug

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 month ago

lemmygrad seems great whenever I browser via all instead of local from time to time.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 month ago

Mastodon is not bad although it is Going Through It right now about how if you’re a person of color the platform is absolutely terrible because it doesn’t have any safety features. Specifically it’s the case that nobody sees the exact same set of replies to a given post so racists can hide their posts targeting PoC and the clueless white people don’t think racism exists. Then default to their midwit FOSS-splaining “if you don’t like it open a PR” as though the mastodon project hasn’t had a million discussions on this topic and leadership decided it isn’t worth solving.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago

CSPAM is ok, mostly (rip LF)

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

Merveilles seems pretty cool although I can't get an invite. The tildeverse is sick too.