The ironic effect of Hexbear has been to significantly reduce my time on the Internet, because almost everywhere else seems so shitty by comparison.

This place really feels like the old internet.

The more time I spend on the internet, the more I’m convinced that it’s so much more useless than we think

This feels like the internet away from the internet, I think because it gives me late 2010 vibes

Best described as the misfits that find each other at a party and go smoke imo. God I miss that shit, we’re in such a cyberpunk age

Hey thanks, I'm trying to do my part to ruin it myself.

This place legit motivates me to improve myself and I can't think of another online space as mind-opening or conducive to healthy discussion. The reputation this place gets as some kind of toxic shitpit is totally unwarranted.

Hexbear is one of the few good spaces on the internet

There are others?

Y'all keep me sane. I love this place so much. It's so nice to not have to deal with shitty fascist white racist liberal genocide apologists.

Good post, I can't explain how much I love this place. Anywhere else on the internet it takes such little time until you come across some liberal/fascist take that tries to push the Overton window all the way to the Third Reich, this is a safe haven I can't do without anymore. Lemmy being a great platform also contributes a lot, but its all of you that make it what it could never be otherwise. I'm gonna really miss you people if this site gets

It really has the pre-2008 niche BBS feel to it. Very cozy and I love it.

Sometimes I try to go to reddit to talk about my special interests but holy shit everyone there is so fucking dumb. It's not even politics sometimes, just terminal reddit brain and absolutely 0 media literacy. Hexbear is also the only "social media" site I've been a part of that isn't just constantly enshittified.

This is my only social networking anything. I like it here most of the time, and yes, it does feel free of the increasingly enshittified (and chuddified) state of Reddit and related monopolies that have swallowed up pretty much all populated forums that used to exist.

I went on recently and it's just awful. I deleted my account so now I just get the common frontpage and it's just full of stale memes and "DAE le DRUMPF EVERYBODY???" All their political discourse is just

This place is great. I love my comrades

ITS TRUE more and more people are saying it

Sometimes I'll still log into Facebook. I have the Purity add-on, which deletes all the unwanted bullshit, and I still feel myself get yet more liberal with all the genetic "we just need to vote harder" posts I'm seeing. Also there's no content warning for dead animal pics (non vegans here: we really appreciate it).

Lots of terrible mod decisions done by liberals and fascists have driven me off of social media. The time I got a ban for arguing with a guy who was posting anti-immigrant and anti-Muslim stuff on was the last straw for me there.

✨Hexbear✨

it's magical ❤️ couldn't agree more

Nobody is trying to sell you something

There are no Nazis

There are no smug liberals

There is no homophobia and transphobia

The only racism there is is the background radiation you get from growing up in a racist society and even that is being minimised

There are almost no debate lords

There are nobody bragging about their perfect lives

Is Hexbear even a proper online community?