Just keep posting. If the poster ahead of you should upvote the wrong post and be banned, pick up their keyboard and press onwards

Nothing more leftist than fucking up the vibes for no reason at the worst possible time.

I've tried my best to stay out of the struggle sessions but it feels like the mods keep doing foolish things and pissing off people more and more. HB does feel a lot slower and I hope it's not because people are afraid to upbear/post.

Sure it was the struggle session? Even now I feel the details of the session fading away like fingerprints on an abandoned handrail

I feel like it's more post-election malaise, same thing happened back in 2020 after Biden won, alot of bored posting, and I'm leavin, I'm back, I'm leavin, I'm back posts too

Yeah, I’m not exactly a power poster. I just like hexbear as Reddit but with far less shitty politics and cooperate astroturfing. However with these moderation struggle sessions I just find hexbear is less appealing. Hexbear is clearly a very important space to some people and who are getting very upset over things. And I think these events between these users and mods are chilling the community. It’s not a warm welcoming space to bring in new users and encourage interaction and exploring the community. Imagine your first interaction with the site: you open it up and the front page is all pinned posts about stupid drama. Even as a reasonably regular user I haven’t got time to read them and frankly don’t wish to. I’m sure I can’t be the only one who feels this way.

FWIW on the current issue, I think upvotes are good for surfacing interesting content. That’s why Reddit was so good, it crowdsources the curation. A million users is a better sorter of content than a desk of moderators acting as content editors. They’re open to manipulation sure. But I’m not seeing too many issues on hexbear.

Yeah it has been slow. Sucks. Genuinely are little concerned that we've reached a fulcrum, and without further action we're about to see the spiral of slower boards-->fewer people bothering to check Hexbear-->even slower boards-->new people who stumble upon HB who would otherwise have joined now just see it as kind of slow and empty like lemmygrad-->death

I think it's more that a lot of posts are getting consolidated into the megas. Which is good, but also bad.

not being allowed to bully libs has really ruined the soul of this subreddit (website), bring back hexbear cyberbullying pls

Every struggle session is like this. Folks will trickle back in with alts and mostly it'll be fine.

The news mega is poppin; God’s in His heaven All ’s right with the world!

it'll be okay. make some GOOD posts

It's ok I'm gonna post butts to bring everyone back

Never Stop Posting

What struggle session? Was it the vegans again?

Which one? Deleting the dunk tank or the other one?

Time to start a new struggle session

Um i think pineapple is good on pizza

What did you nerds do this time?

Idk, I've been interacting less since I started using matrix a lot more, though I was never a capital P Poster. Turns out the Internet keeps re-discovering that yes in fact chat rooms are the most personal way to hang out and be social together. Alor at least I keep rediscovering it for myself. I'm not leaving any time soon though.