A friend sent me a spicy enough meme and I thought “heh, they are ready for HexBear”. So I almost sent them a link and then I thought “hold on, maybe they are put off by something, let’s check”; so made the little mental exercise of trying to discover hexbear for the first time.

Good lord, there’s too much terminally online shit, anybody sane would be repelled.

I lied there was no effort post

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:gold-communist:

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I think my brain got broken a long time ago because I don’t see this site or the leftist stuff as alienating at all. Can someone literally give me a run down or some examples?

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I don’t know I checked the dunk tank and suddenly everything seemed too terminally online.

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Yeah my brain is fried then because nothing about it seems abnormal or niche at all. Maybe I need therapy again.

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Isn’t that just the literal purpose of the dunk tank though? To point and laugh at online nonsense that doesn’t really have any actual value outside of entertainment?

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But what’s the point of this place if not a niche forum for extremely online leftists? I’m not very online myself, but one of the reasons I come here is to learn about all the ridiculously online bullshit I’d never ever see otherwise! It’s like being able to be extremely online without any of the downsides

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You are totally right, is just the community is so cool I would love to share it with cool people stranded in shit communities where there are always a bunch of reactionary dipshits posting or commenting shit.

Exactly like what I found in r/chapotraphouse: a place that suddenly was mostly free of shitheads and made fun of idiots, made me laugh a lot and also taught me weird shit. A cool oasis.

Really r/cth showed me how fucking easy is to root out reactionary bullshit when you really want to get rid of it

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What if more energy were directed towards the hobbies comms and stuff? Trying to make things more accessible to more people and whatnot (yes I realize c/libre needs to do that lol)

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Given the level of irony poisoning I had trouble telling r/neoliberal and r/chapotraphouse at first. Not to mention all the esoteric leftist jokes with no way to understand them without lurking for months.

Might just be how it is, yo

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