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How did you find Hexbear? (lemmy.ml)
submitted 1 year ago by to c/chat@hexbear.net
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I got curious about how bad Hexbear was according to sh.itjust.works and told myself "i should document it and make a post about it if it's really that bad"

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[–] 24 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

::: cw suicide

spoilerI was a member of a $u!c1d£ forum, looking for someone to help me un@l!v£ myself. Mainly due to extreme poverty and starvation after my disability benefits were stopped. People kept making pacts with me, then letting me down. I ended up completely penniless and starving and tried to sell my prescription medications on the site as I had nothing else to sell. I got banned for that but right before I got banned someone there told me about hexbear's mutual aid and said I should ask for help there, that's how I found this site. And this place has kept me alive for months, both with food and friendship. I didn't have anyone to talk to in real life as everyone abandoned me when I got sick.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago*

    While editing your comment highlight the entire text and press the spoiler button, replacing the second spoiler with cw suicide

    Here is a screenshot of where to find the spoiler button.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Could you please dropdown spoiler tag this and put a cw for mentions of suicide

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I don't know how to do that. Maybe a mod can do it. I don't understand the point though, the cw would still contain the word suicide, presumably?

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago

    CW: suicide, CWs for sexual violence/drugs/transphobia

    The post body more than the word suicide, the drop-down spoiler tag allows people to choose to engage with the given topic and protects users' mental health

    This is particularly important so that people with the related trauma aren't triggered into re-experiencing that trauma and to prevent the vulnerable people on the site from relapsing into suicidal ideation or planning

    The site asks for the same CWs for sexual violence and transphobia, the warning contains the word but the drop-down spoiler tagging allows people the choice to engage with comments that discuss or describe it, or choose not to read something that would be triggering for them.

    Inadvertently stumbling upon descriptions of suicide, sexual violence, or other things like drugs can be very stressful, traumatic or even dangerous for users, so giving other community members to choice to engage is a necessary part of creating and maintaining safe and inclusive spaces.

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