May 13th, 4:02 p.m.
"I was ready to throw in the towel" says former Hexbear admin u/BeatnikThespian, preferring to use their online handle to avoid privacy issues.
"Being doxxed can really cause a lot of issues in one's life. It doesn't just stay online."
After a long history of working within the far-left on various online forums and even reddit under the now banned subreddit r/ChapoTrapHouse, user BeatnikThespian was forced to step down as the lead admin from r/CTH's successor, Hexbear. At the time, Hexbear was still known as chapo.chat, choosing to shed references to its origins later in the lemmy-based forum's development.
"I believed it was the best choice for all involved considering the circumstances," says Beatnik.
However, after dealing with the fallout within the community and even their own life, Beatnik says they've chosen to pursue a new outlet for online leftwing activism - online dating.
"I started MixBear with the intention of connecting romantically inclined leftists considering how tough things are for us on other apps" said Beatnik of impetus for MixBear's creation.
While Beatnik maintains optimism for the project's future, many former colleagues and comrades seem to largely disagree with the move. Most notably, their former stomping grounds, Hexbear, almost universally reacted with disgust and outrage.
Discussion of the project on Hexbear itself is now banned. However, before moderator censorship took effect on Friday, a large majority of the site took their grievances to many megathreads and harassed users who chose to support the former admin's project.
"Brb making like 10 beanis profiles and spamming these losers with beanis lmao" writes one user named Dirt_Owl, a prominent poster in the Hexbear community.
"They didn't doxx this weirdo enough" said another well known user GayTuckerCarlson.
"I'm just glad I've moved past all the toxicity and struggle of Hexbear" said Beatnik in response to the overwhelmingly negative reaction.
"I hope one day they can move past it as well and join us on MixBear, where everyone is welcome to find who they're looking for."
Im gonna go on a tangeant, but am I missing something in the lore or is Yoda a fucking coward? The sith, with the assistance of the empire, comes in and murders all of his friends and even all the Padawans and he just says "nothing to be done" and goes into hiding.
It's incredible how Andor recontextualizes this because when this happens to other people like Andor or Luthen or Kayla or any other part of the rebellion and it's precursors, they choose to harness their hate and fight to make things better. Even the people we'd call liberals and co-opters like Mothma (debatable, she did sacrifice a lot and was very comitted), Leah's father, and other former senate members still did more to fight than these loser Jedis. People with everything to lose and a fraction of the power Jedis have and they actually commit to fighting. Even the fucking sith lords put themselves on the front line and commit to an ideology.
And after all of that, the Jedi suddenly decide its time to participate once the rebellion is already built up and flourishing, they send one golden special boy to fight, and suddenly they're the spear head of the movement. Fuck these assholes, I hate the Jedi, especially Yoda.