I don't just mean outrage or regular rage, I mean shock that someone was to the left of "legal weed and free college but only for those that operate a successful business for 3 years in a disadvantaged community" top-cop takes.

I think federating took them by surprise, looking back. For about a week, those smug liberals were at a loss to even fathom what Hexbears were saying, and could only chant bullshit about how we're Russian/Chinese bots.

Sure they still do that but they've slightly adapted to Hexbear presence.

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[–] 61 points 3 years ago (1 child)

when people live in an echo chamber, the outside is scary and confusing

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  • [–] [S] 55 points 3 years ago (4 children)

    Sure, Hexbear was its own kind of echo chamber, but I think it got a weird sense of solidarity overall and the internal struggle sessions were mitigated somewhat by just how sheer fucking liberal the federated communities were revealed to be next door.

    Especially programming.dev. What the fuck is up with those cryptofascists?

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  • [–] 62 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    You get plenty of good folks in programming, but you also get high volumes of:

    • Stemlords
    • Bazingas
    • Temporarily embarrassed millionaires
    • Labor aristocrats
    • Misogynists

    Lots of underlying drivers of reactionary thought.

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  • [–] 51 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    It's hilarious to see people call this place an echo chamber.

    I don't know if I've ever seen a more divided group on literally any given topic.

    I can say the word cats and start an argument where I'm taking shit from three different sides, pretty sure thats not an echo chamber.

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    I love when we go for a walk in the neighborhood and random kitties come up to us and vibe. That's why I adopt cats and set them free in our back yard.

    What, are there people against outdoor cats here?

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  • [–] 17 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    What's wrong with outdoor cats, I wuv kittiessicko-yes

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    I think it might very well already be submitted. Someone at hexbear used it as an emoji so I saved it (because it's awesome) and I used it now by simply uploading it because I don't know how people get the emojis to appear in the line.

    Do I have to be registered on hexbear to get emojis like walter-breakdown to pop up? Or is there a command I'm not entering right? I know I'm doing something wrong.

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  • [–] 10 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    not seeing it but there's well more than 1200 so it's entirely possible I missed it.

    and yeah, emotes are instance specific. feature got upstreamed from hexbear but not a lot of instances are using it atm.

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  • [–] 27 points 3 years ago

    Its full of dudes who make a fuckton of money, lack self awareness, and chase early retirement, they fully think there is a meritocracy. That makes them treat poorer people accordingly.

    Unfortunately they don't realize that they are closer to being homeless than they are to being at their daddy Elon or Zuck's level of wealth. One cancer diagnosis and it's over shrug-outta-hecks

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  • [–] 24 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    I was expecting large struggle sessions with lemmygrad over sectarianism and left bashing (we are a ML space), but everyone saw the libs and went full Workers United Front

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  • [–] 21 points 3 years ago

    like I knew in theory we were closer to each other than to the libs but the sheer magnitude has been surprising. we used to have AES struggle sessions every couple of months but virtually everyone closed ranks once federation hit. we've spent so much time arguing over how critical our "critical support" is and it's small potatoes in comparison to "DAE winnie the pooh??"

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