i know people here have a sour taste over hexbear but im so happy to see trans spaces on the fediverse popping off, im so done with corporate social media and its great to see.
love seeing hundreds of trans people vibing
We’re not interested in promotions for Hexbear, please and thanks.
Fuck tankies.
“i dont think its appropriate to change the standards of language based on what a tiny fraction of people are offended by” what did you mean by this, then, that it caused your comment to get removed from 5 instances for transphobia
Hexbear is trash their support for the LGBTQ community is fraud at best.
You do not support Russia and queers in the same breath foh
Hexbear?
People here will be salty about me saying it but I think they’re the most trans positive instance. I say this as someone that looks at everything trans related from lemmy.ml on purpose so I can check in on everyone
I feel like people have a lot of unexamined transphobia and thats why they’re angry about hexbear, hexbear rabidly defends their trans users. Then of course people just parrot hearsay when hexbear dogpiles someone for being transphobic. Hexbear also defederates from other instances a lot (either because Hexbear considers an instance transphobic or w.e. or because that instance hates dogpiles) so obviously Hexbear people can’t defend themselves from slander.
People here will be salty about me saying it but I think they’re the most trans positive instance. I say this as someone that looks at everything trans related from lemmy.ml on purpose so I can check in on everyone
Hexbear is very inclusive to trans people that align with its ideology, but it actively allows harassment and “dunking” of anyone, including trans people, who don’t align with its ideology. In my opinion, it’s hard to be the most inclusive trans instance when you are only inclusive of some trans people, and are willing to harass the rest.
Are liberal trans people inclusive and trans positive? I can’t say they are when they support neverending wars overseas and jerk off to war criminals that have undoubtedly killed, maimed, or otherwise harmed many trans people, e.g. Joe Biden, Hillary Clinton, Kamala Harris, etc.
‘Dunking’ on them is a pittance in comparison to support for slaughtering our own community.
Personally, I think you should rethink how you think about your own instance, 196 is a cesspool and its clear that most trans people find it offputting. I first heard of y’all as the ‘trans friendly’ instance and looked at your front page and saw a complete shitshow on the front page (re: ONLY 196), and obviously you aren’t federated with all trans spaces so I chose to go to lemmy instead.
https://hexbear.net/ a lemmy instance
(Cis guy but can offer an answer to this) Hexbear is quite a large instance that was unfederated for a long time. It also has a strong and specific political leaning and a very particular instance culture. The combination of these factors has caused more than a little friction between hexbear and other instances - something I say with no intention to assign blame to hexbear specifically. While I have personally had plenty of what I will politely call strong disagreements with hexbear users I do think that the majority of it is innocent. It’s a big instance with a brash culture and strong opinions, so a lot of people’s experience with hexbear was “a lot of loud dogpiling anyone that disagreed with them” even though the hexbear users were just earnestly interacting with the fediverse as usual. This resulted in a whole heap of defederations, and pawb.social is apparently among the group that did that
just gonna say that Certain Interactions ITT have convinced me that i do, in fact, need a hexbear account.
thank u
