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Now that the old Hexbear fork has been officially abandoned, this community will be used as a space for meta-discussion on the site itself.

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This would fall under all pr is good pr right? Cant click on it and its sooo frustrating

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[–] mustGo@hexbear.net 52 points 2 months ago (3 children)

I wish there were less tag lines slandering hexbear. I know it's fun to joke about bad posts, but putting aggressive ones at the top of the page creates bad first impressions.

Some reactionary sites love putting posts of people calling out how awful they are in their banners. So it may be not clear if we're making fun of how absurdly wrong the post is, or if we are reveling in it.

[–] Owl@hexbear.net 24 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

This, and also fewer entire-ass posts would be nice. They're only funny when they're breaking the format; if there are too many, it becomes the format.

[–] Nakoichi@hexbear.net 9 points 2 months ago (1 children)

idk the fact that two of the taglines are a whole page from blackshirts and reds and an entire copypasta shitpost about living in an overturned T34 in an abandoned junkyard in Wisconsin is pretty great.

[–] Owl@hexbear.net 7 points 2 months ago

Those are definitely on the "keep" list.

[–] graymess@hexbear.net 15 points 2 months ago (1 children)

As a recent convert from lemmy.world, I can't say I wasn't confused when looking for a new instance.

[–] Nakoichi@hexbear.net 13 points 2 months ago (1 children)

.world huh? what got you to come over here? Was it just their constant bleating about us that got you curious or what?

[–] graymess@hexbear.net 17 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I just needed to get out of there. The overbearing liberal presence was bad for my mental health and I was exhausted by their constant defense of genocide. Maybe it was always like that, but it felt like it was getting much worse over the last year. I browsed other instances a bit, but Hexbear is much more in line with my political views.

[–] Nakoichi@hexbear.net 9 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Also, in case you missed it I implore you to go down this rabbit hole to see one of our finest moments and possibly the funniest thing that has ever happened.

https://hexbear.net/post/107194

[–] LeylaLove@hexbear.net 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Thank you for posting this, I had never seen this before

[–] Nakoichi@hexbear.net 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

HOW DID YOU MISS THIS?!

It went on for like a whole week!

[–] LeylaLove@hexbear.net 1 points 2 months ago

I'm a fairly new poster here, only been here for about a year

[–] Nakoichi@hexbear.net 7 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I feel that lol. This is like the only place I visit online anymore. I use twitter sometimes to keep up with world news stuff but every time I open the app I literally want to do self harm.

Glad you found your way here though comrade. It's quite cozy even if we do get in a fair few very stupid arguments, but that's what family is for right?

[–] HumanBehaviorByBjork@hexbear.net 10 points 2 months ago

i am reveling in it. i think it's funny that they hate us.

[–] PointAndClique@hexbear.net 38 points 2 months ago (1 children)

They're site taglines that just cycle through from some list that the mods don't let us play with. They're generated on browser versions too.

[–] Nakoichi@hexbear.net 27 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] PointAndClique@hexbear.net 24 points 2 months ago

Lmooo everyone come in quick mods are gifting taglines

[–] atyaz@hexbear.net 37 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Love how even in this anti communist rant they still took the time to shit on Muslims a little, thanks a lot for that 👍

[–] Belly_Beanis@hexbear.net 5 points 2 months ago

Plus some casual transphobia. They couldn't even keep their mask on long enough to make a post.

[–] Chronicon@hexbear.net 32 points 2 months ago

they're taglines. they're like if the minecraft splash text got out of hand

a lot of them are funny exchanges people here have had, but some are also chuds and libs from the wider fediverse frothing about us.

[–] Vampire@hexbear.net 32 points 2 months ago

Look mom I'm in the screenshot!

[–] bazingabrain@hexbear.net 31 points 2 months ago (2 children)

i like the one with dorito angela merkel and link parachuting lol

[–] ProfessorOwl_PhD@hexbear.net 7 points 2 months ago

*triangular Merkel

I remember that was just a shit post about the stuff hexbear finds funny and immediately became an emoji

[–] Nakoichi@hexbear.net 30 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

They all come from comments people have made on lemmy, reddit, twitter, or basically anywhere on the internet mostly, with a few exceptions for especially melted IRL quotes and messages demanding that you specifically read theory (or one piece, but I repeat myself).

As a matter of fact I feel like adding the title of your post to the list of site taglines just for the meta lol

I do agree though that we should go through and edit them to have links to the source context but I feel like it's funnier to just have them there totally devoid of their original context.

[–] jaywalker@hexbear.net 9 points 2 months ago

Not having links to the source is proof that mods are libs

[–] kleeon@hexbear.net 29 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

russia russia hamas russia china hamas islam hamas china russia china china islam russia hamas

[–] HumanBehaviorByBjork@hexbear.net 24 points 2 months ago (1 children)

death to america, and i do not mean anything peaceful by that statement

[–] vovchik_ilich@hexbear.net 17 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I do mean something peaceful, for the rest of the world. And as an European, death to Europe too.

[–] GenderIsOpSec@hexbear.net 15 points 2 months ago

yeah i condemn hummus

i condemn them for not trying to take over the prisons to release all the gang - rword victims while the zionist entity was completely bamboozled stalin-gun-1stalin-gun-2

Death to America (Not Peaceful)

[–] oscardejarjayes@hexbear.net 13 points 2 months ago

for a surprising number of taglines, the original post is gone (and if you're lucky, it's in the modlog).

[–] keepcarrot@hexbear.net 10 points 2 months ago

The leftist version of reddit?