Please don’t use serif fonts for UI elements. Imagine the buttons on your file manager being Times New Roman. (eww.) I think what you’re looking for is a monospaced font that’s designed to distinguish O/0, I/1/l, etc.

Plug for one of my favorite fonts: https://www.jetbrains.com/lp/mono/

What was particularly sad this time was that the mods here, instead of deleting the abusive comments which I reported several times, decided instead to remove the whole post altogether while those comments themselves were never touched. So, not only the reporting option became pointless, but it also removed (in my opinion) a nice conversation on the topic. In the mod log they wrote ‘reason: Troll bait’ for why the post was removed, but I find…let’s say very coincidental that every time a discussion about Hexbear (which might start very calmly at first) has then to be locked or deleted because of the trolling.

I am almost certain that the post was removed by one of the admins on Hexbear. See their modlog: https://hexbear.net/modlog?page=1&userId=172774. They removed almost all comments made by @comr@hexbear.net, banned him, and removed the post.

You won’t see this, but I’m gonna say this anyway: Your admins also actively engage in building an echo chamber for Hexbears. Just look at the recent so-called “great purge” done by one of your admins. Your admins banned hundreds of people they disagree with politically. It’s kind of hypocritical that any Hexbear accuses others of censoring dissidents.

Once a Hexbear harassed me by asking me to post a picture of my dick. I reported the comment, messaged one of the admins, but so far the admins have ignored the reports and those offending comments are still up. Heck, I even tried to message the admin through Matrix but she rejected (not ignore) my message request. The admins there do not care if people outside of Hexbear are harassed by Hexbears.

Those three links if you want to see it for yourself:

• https://hexbear.net/comment/3835889
• https://hexbear.net/comment/3835890
• https://hexbear.net/comment/3836492

It is my request that anyone reading this comment not message that admin to harass her.

And, that same admin conducted something they call the great purge in which they banned hundreds of people they don’t agree with. Yet bounds of Hexbears are accusing the defederation advocates of “censoring people they don’t agree with politically.”

I know you won’t see this, but how are the pithy, dismissive responses not trolling? Those replies are exactly trolling.

a gang of drunken hooligans

I’m stealing this phrase, thanks.

My main issue with that article on ProleWiki lies in its first paragraph:

Authoritarianism is an idealist and loosely defined concept that is often used by liberals (liberalism being the ideology of capitalism) to demonize both past and present socialist states and dismiss any argument in support of these states.

In the very beginning of the article, ProleWIki equated liberalism with capitalism (they are very different), and also claimed them that liberals have “demonized” socialist states with this term. There is no denying that some liberals have demonized socialist states, but I would argue that this term was used properly in that context.

Have you ever noticed the most prominent difference between socialist governments and the governments of the rest of the world? In most socialist countries, you aren’t really allowed to publicly criticize the government. Ever noticed how much criticisms of the USA, the UK, France, or really any liberal country floats around the Internet? If you speak Chinese, I kindly ask you to go check out Weibo (Chinese Twitter), try posting something remotely critical of President Xi and watch your post get removed. Or try sending a message to a Chinese citizen with Weixin (Chinese Whatsapp), talk about the protest banner that someone hung on Sitong bridge in Beijing 11 months ago and see how your account gets disabled.

As you can see, the Chinese government exerts a lot more power on censoring Internet speech than the liberal countries do. I am not qualified to say whether the “western” countries are authoritarian, but in comparison, those socialist states really do enforce a lot more rules. Socialist states really are more authoritarian in comparison. It is more than fitting to call them authoritarian.

[that’s like saying] “you’re biased, so why should I believe you?” [in a debate]

Now that I think about it, I realize that that was indeed not a good argument. But that was also what another Hexbear user said to dismiss the Wikipedia article just a few parent comments above. They basically said “Wikipedia is biased, so why should I believe Wikipedia?”

BTW sorry for the late reply. I was kind of busy.

Oh well, I guess I should not have claimed that you chose to like ProleWiki more because you just like it. Now, how about I explain why I don’t trust ProleWiki on “Authoritarianism” because of its bias?

If you look at ProleWiki’s main page, it literally says that it is a communist (Marxist-Leninist) project. It leans towards Marxism-Leninism, which IMO makes its defense of those Marxist-Leninist socialist states heavily biased and unreliable.

Good. Actually I was also banned for saying that Xi the Pooh isn’t racist.

They do. See https://lemmygrad.ml and see how almost every post has some downvotes. IMO this does make the posting culture there better.

Heck I think Lemmygrad is more tolerable than Hexbear, by a lot.

Sh.itjust.works has already defederated from Hexbear? That quick? No announcement whatsoever?

Btw, lemm.ee is federated with Hexbear.

Agreed.

Careful calling those regimes authoritarian. Hexbears like to attack this point by assigning a slightly different definition to authoritarian and then either (a) claim that all governments are “authoritarian” or (b) blame liberals for using this word to demonize socialist states. I once saw someone cite https://en.prolewiki.org/wiki/Authoritarianism to “prove” that those states are not authoritarian.

Pro Russia and pro China.

Yeah, the Chinese government is totally very democratic and is receptive to the criticism of its citizens! They never censor words and topics they don’t like on their social media platforms!

Cool, a thread asking our opinion on Hexbear. Here’s a post I wrote a few days ago on Hexbears: https://lemm.ee/post/5751850.

An excerpt from my post for your convenience:

An album to outline a few comments I have received within the past 3 days:
(content warning: toxic comments, genocide denial)
https://imgur.com/a/d63ohQM
and

TL;DR: Hexbears deny the genocide against Uyghurs in China. They laugh at and dismiss the idea that China is a dictatorship. Having those opinions is fine, but they personally insult the people with whom they don’t agree using annoying emojis and terms like troll, shit, shithead, Nazi apologist, colonial comprador, freak, rabid imperialist westerners, condescending dickbag, disingenuous idiot, unimaginative impotent weasel, losers, etc. They say that other people’s claims are rooted in dishonest bullshit. One of them even said, “nothing you say has any value, and you deserve no regard.” I would say about 33% of them are overly pugnacious and feed on the misery of others. Federating with them brings us more trouble than benefits. The sheer number of other instances that chose to block them is more than enough to prove this.

Edit: I witnessed someone being banned on one of the communities on hexbear.net because of alleged racist remarks. The offending comment was simply stating why comparing Xi and Winnie the Pooh isn’t racist:

(screenshot taken approximately at 2023-09-03 11:36 (UTC))

(CC @Susaga@sh.itjust.works)

I know right! Even though I agree with some of the viewpoints, I would rather not see so much discussion about capitalism, communism, or politics in general. BTW, the word is “systematically.”

I literally said that they might as well leave lemmygrad.ml and make a new account on Hexbear.

Ah I see, thanks.