I just got here from Lemm.ee - I was watching the defederation drama unfold and just kept thinking 'dang, these comrades are based as fuck, I joined the wrong instance!'
Anyway I'm here now, reporting for duty!
this post was submitted on 16 Aug 2023
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My instance doesn't defederate as a general rule. It has its upsides and downsides -- I still have dbzer0 and lemmygrad, but I also have to put up with occasional bullshit from exploding heads and similar. Gotta say it's nice having you folks pop up in my feed to balance out the bad takes.
love seeing allies from other instances. 
See, I didn't know that and randomly picked sdf.org when some of the other instances were having tech issues and growing pains. It quickly became my "primary" account and in all this drama I've learned that I was very lucky in my pick. I definitely appreciate the viewpoints I see from hexbear users.
Gotta say I have much enjoyed my time here so far
No weird socially conservative "communism"
No state department brained liberal "socialism"
Only good takes and unironically based people
when a hexbear spots liberals and nazbolsim gay lol
Woooow how original, a gay hexbear. Sheesh, get some new material
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jk I love all my comrades, gay, trans, bi, and (may I be forgiven for uttering such profanity) straight
Big if true
Welcome to hexbear <333 so am I! <3
noway me too <3
We're all so gay and trans and communist <3
based 
braver than the troops
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You guys are the cool commie friends I wish to have, and I'm sad I haven't met you guys before. Such a happy place to get some ~~GOOD OL' MURICAN~~ freedom from all the lib crap we endure daily ❤️✨
My only regret is that I wasn’t here sooner! I missed the CTH discord but now I’m glad to be back in the same boat
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I’ve learned a lot from lurking the unfettered conversation that happens here, subjects that I’ve never heard of discussed in great detail. The shitposting is next level. Just a great mix of leftie content here. Also, the site logo is fire.
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Been lurking for a few months but this is first online space I haven't gotten those fucked vibes from
I'm still getting through my list of theory so I don't feel confident joining certain conversations yet but I'd like to think being open-minded to deprogramming all the western propaganda bullshit I've ingested over a lifetime has helped me discover this community
Say the wrong thing some time. Folk will set you right. Its a bit rough on the ego but nothing stamps out brain worms quite like a stern rebuke and as soon as you say "oh shit you are right" everything is good.
I'd almost consider it like an online anxiety lol. Mustering up the strength to not revert back to being a lurker after not expressing a thought succinctly and powering through the posting to stamp those worms out.
You know, I gotta say the whole Lemmy vibe has fixed a lot of that issue for me. I had some 500k karma on Reddit from comments, but I deleted all of them within a week of posting because the anxiety got to me. I wanted to be entirely transient there. Part of the conversation, but as soon as the conversation was over, gone.
Lemmy is a smaller more community-feel community in general, and other than a few bad actors, it’s really peaceful here.
I have wild amounts of anxiety about tons of things, and I don’t feel weird participating here (even without deleting all my content regularly!)
Once you get through the “I’m posting to help everyone here” barrier, which that silly message on posts with no comments helps a ton with, it’s such a good space to exist. Even if you don’t agree, if you do so from a place of open communication and accept what others want to share with you, you’ll be totally fine.
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Don't feel like you can't join conversations because you don't have all the theory down comrade. We've all got plenty gaps in our knowledge and people are pretty cool about explaining things if required.
Sometimes the best discussions are kept going and reach greater depths because someone asks an 'obvious' question or contributes a 'basic' point, too. The simple shift in perspective can help everyone to see things from a different angle, which is hard to do even if it's the crux of diamat. And we all learn when a question or contribution prompts an even more knowledgeable comrade to swing by with more theory, etc.
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I wish hexbear had gone with the name lib.rehab, because finding this place has done so many wonders for getting the worms out of my brain
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Very excited to have you aboard!
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this and no downvotes seem like the best things ever to my anxious ass holy shit
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I’ve been on Lemmy.world for a month. I’ve wanted to see this place and Genzedong.
are you literally a boomer? Feel like us olds are in the minority.
I’m actually GenX, my son calls me a boomer. It stuck.
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I welcome fresh blood. Cant wait for them to start their first struggle session.
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