Hey I know all the users asking for sources is really overwhelming and you said you knew some people there. A Chinese user visited the re-education camps and what he saw shocked me, you can read about it here: https://hexbear.net/post/4764089 and here: https://hexbear.net/post/4764090 I'm curious if your friends could verify this

Accurate as I am Carcosa after all and you are glimpsing the truth that a better world is possible.

Pinning @[email protected] comment:

True Hexbear Fedayeen have hexbear hard coded in their hosts file and are currently enjoying their

On OSX/Linux just add 37.187.73.130 hexbear.net to the bottom of /etc/hosts and you'll get your back.

On Windows its at C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc\hosts

On Phones it's much harder so all your are lost.

We do have one!

https://www.patreon.com/hexbear

it's actually in the site sidebar under the moscow time

The drama was on the tail-end of 2024

Users that get into fights with each other in the comments will be temp-banned from this community for 1 day.

@[email protected] went for the longest run yet

She made the choice to delete her account

Hello everyone, I want to personally apologize for how I handled this change.

During my time as an admin I made the decision to shift decision-making from a group of admins admin to all the moderators. My reasoning is that the barrier to entry for a hexbear account to become a moderator was pretty low, and we have a 90% acceptance rate for applicants. Therefore, a mod collective is going to be the users most interested in shaping the site.

The reason that I made this post and I edited down the discussion to the comment below is to protect any mods from harassment. Not everyone is open to defending their thoughts against the userbase and I didn't think they should have to as long as one of us was willing to engage with this post. I personally agreed with the mod sentiment that this change could be a chance to improve the site but did not mind the dunk/dredge tanks however it was a majority of mod team members that voted in favor of this change during the week+ that this change was discussed & voted on.

I recognize I could have done multiple aspects of this better and I think it is clear from the discussion of this change that it was not the right approach.

Another admin will be putting up a second discussion post for what we will do after some time with the current change. Closing the tanks will be permanent but the decision on if we will be opening a spiritual successor to exist alongside gossip and counterprop has not been made.

The screenshot circulating in this thread of my statement in the lemmy instance admin chat was an attempt by me to get the drama communities on other instances closed, ultimately a failure on multiple counts.

With all that being said, I would like to thank everyone for their input and state that I will be stepping down as admin as a result of my mistakes in facilitating the discussion, executing the change, and communicating with the userbase.