We welcome any new users but we do not officially life raft anymore
this post was submitted on 10 Sep 2025
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it's cool pretty sure 50% of that sub is hexbears anyway
oh no if you bring up hexbear they get all up in their feelings about not being able to use the r word and stuff
They're the 50% that got banned.
ironically yes because half of the comments will be people praising hexbear.
all those banned mostly seem to gripe about CW for meatposting so i guess they were purged during the vegan struggles
GOOD. LESSON LEARNT FINALLY.
but we do not officially life raft anymore
God, we really have matured, I love it
What does it mean to life raft someone?
it's weird because r/trueanon is like a mix of hexbears who still use reddit, former hexbears who were naughty and went there as a life raft, libs, and this disgusting tiny minority of stupidpol reactionaries and redscare fascists (who are mercilessly found out and generally booted when mods catch on).
there are some really cool people there though i wish would come here and hang out with us (the ones i like are all women of various sorts though)
The stupidpol and redscare posters generally get dunked on at least when they show their ass
They kinda won the Taylor Lorentz thread which was one of their more recent struggle sessions. Caring about minorities in the abstract is easy, being asked to actually mask up to protect disabled people is... also easy, but that won't stop most people from acting like it's hard.
yeah and i think they are planning on bring back the bots to detect them. usually those at the bottom of a thread with negative upvotes are always stupidpol posters
hexbears who still use reddit
i only lurk because i don’t have a reddit account anymore so it uh, doesn’t count 
Tfw you can't quit browsing the slopyard but they've literally IP and hardware banned you from making an account so you can't yell at people
how do they keep track of hardware bans?
I don't fuckin know, gotta be mobile device HW IDs and MAC addresses or something.
All I know is I got permbanned like 10 years ago for getting drunk one night and reporting every post in a fash sub (circlejerkaustralia), which went to the admins and got me banned for report abuse. Every single account I've ever made since has been permbanned within 2 weeks for evasion. Completely different burner emails, phone on wifi, phone off wifi, work laptop while actually in the office - doesn't matter, all get banned some time between 1 hour and 2 weeks after creation.
Use mullvad browser with a vpn, they're identifying you off of known browser fingerprints.
I think cache data
this would be the funniest reason for a subreddit to get banned since chapo got clapped for hating slave owners.
It was what brought me here, joined on 9/11
happy early cake day
edit: thanks for the gold kind stranger
PTSD warning pls
love this site for letting me be almost as deranged as I want
Almost, we still have standards of course 
I'm willing to let them in but they need to accept they are 
s on the topic of masking. I want congressbaseballfan back here though.
Edit: on the other hand, I don't know what this was all about but that's one of their most active and interesting posters, it would really suck if some of the best users from over there have legit grievances over here that are keeping them from joining. I feel like Hexbear is usually pretty good about dealing with DM harassment, even when the perpetrators are known and respected users, so it seems odd.
This post reminded me I have an inbox
Bit idea: guy who gets harassed in DMs but doesn't notice
That happened to me on Reddit once. A Destiny fan apparently spent a month sending me death threats and I didn’t even realize until a year after it happened
I'm not too sure about the reporting systems before hexbear rejoined lemmy federation since I wasn't a mod in that prehistoric period, but I can say for certain we are able to report DMs as users and the admins are able to quickly and decisively handle the incidents as they come.
Trueanon is like the only good subreddit left, I would be a little sad if it got banned
Since our front page has about a 60% parity with theirs (don't think I didn't notice!)
i have terrible news about r/196 for you
That's a bit closer to lemmy.world or db0 on a bad day.
the news content is extremely different but i see many repeated memes 
That's true (and I've reposted some stuff from there myself) but I think the tone of the communities is wildly different. Hexbear is much more millennial - gen X, a lot more long posts, lots of nerdy discussions. /r/196 is clearly much younger, all discussion is superficial, and obviously it's full of chasers.
196 discussions/comments are always insufferable it's true
It's not even about the liberalism. Every discussion there tends to be people giving their opinions in the form of hot takes, speaking confidently (and often in memespeak) when making statements that deserve to be backed up by sources. They have this way of talking that really lends itself to confirmation bias because each side of a conversation makes inflammatory claims that may sound conclusive, so whichever side the majority agrees with (on the basis of sounding nuanced and correct) gets anointed. Case in point: https://hexbear.net/post/4476685
That's frequently how it goes on Hexbear, too, except usually leaning toward what rhetorically sounds righteous rather than nuanced.
I think most of our struggle sessions have been on topics where both sides agreed on the facts but disagreed on the prescriptions to be derived from those facts, or on something more aesthetic/symbolic. In those cases it's really not like one can make arguments that are backed up by much evidence, except maybe trying to gather a lot of people's opinions so one can say "most people are okay with this" or the opposite.
On that subreddit, people often get away with making factually incorrect claims because of the nuance fetish. See the thread I linked where the entire motivation of Operation Prosperity Guardian is glossed over and dismissed in the name of finding a reason why Things Are Complicated:tm:
Sometimes I source memes from tumblr, just to add a little more variety but its a bit of a pain.
I heard once that facebook ate up MySpace users by having new FB users give them their MySpace log in credentials, then Facebook would scrape their myspace follows and display new MySpace posts on the user's facebook feed.
I think hexbear (and really, more the fediverse overall) could learn from that. Like, if there was a "submit reblog" button where I could drop a URL from tumblr (or I guess even ecks the everything app) and it converts the links and images and text into a lemmy post, that would be really useful in dragging the overall lemmy culture away from its reddit origins
why don't they just disavow so hard that the nondisavowal is obvious
Could have been a great time for a bit where they only allow text posts titled “I disavow” with no body text for 24 hours
And the only comments allowed? Believe it or not…
My child, say 20 disavowals and 2 hail marys and go about your business.
come to lemmygrad we have downvotes
liberals smh
Issue is the TA sub is a bit too into edgy humor for this sites culture.
Still love 'em tho.
Imagine worrying about a subreddit lol. Extremely pathetic behavior.
We should take them in and let them say the slurs but make their avatars have little armbands on.
I welcome them, yeah they've got some reddit on them but so did most of this site
I'm one of the few people on the site who's never had a reddit account so maybe I just don't get it but I think most if them would fit in fine here and we can always use more comrades