Literally the week of the 2024 election, something snapped in the collective minds of the admins and mods of Hexbear. They just woke up one day and decided to implement a ton of changes that I argue destroyed the site.
I deleted my account on Hexbear and took a break. I would still browse a little bit while not logged in, but eventually settled on joining an instance that was federated with Hexbear so I could still follow some of the communities, but with some emotional distance.
I didn’t want to delete my account because I quite like a lot of the content and people there, but man, I probably should have. The constants of the admins wanting the site to be more serious and about organizing and such while insulting (and being transphobic to) their userbase for wanting to laugh at chuds and then letting the domain expire and just not doing anything about it for the month or so the issue became apparent is so embarrassing.
I like to give people the benefit of the doubt because forum drama isn’t that serious, but come ooon 😭
I mean yes from the outside you’d think “it’s just a forum” but I mean if you spend multiple hours a day on it and connect with tons of people that share your world view, yeah it means a lot.
Literally the week of the 2024 election, something snapped in the collective minds of the admins and mods of Hexbear. They just woke up one day and decided to implement a ton of changes that I argue destroyed the site.
I deleted my account on Hexbear and took a break. I would still browse a little bit while not logged in, but eventually settled on joining an instance that was federated with Hexbear so I could still follow some of the communities, but with some emotional distance.
I didn’t want to delete my account because I quite like a lot of the content and people there, but man, I probably should have. The constants of the admins wanting the site to be more serious and about organizing and such while insulting (and being transphobic to) their userbase for wanting to laugh at chuds and then letting the domain expire and just not doing anything about it for the month or so the issue became apparent is so embarrassing.
I like to give people the benefit of the doubt because forum drama isn’t that serious, but come ooon 😭
I mean yes from the outside you’d think “it’s just a forum” but I mean if you spend multiple hours a day on it and connect with tons of people that share your world view, yeah it means a lot.
Wild. Anyway, glad to see you here comrade
Yea that’s fair, I think I’m downplaying it to myself because I’m kinda bummed about it lmao
Glad to see you too comrade