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.

that shit just shouldn’t be here

Yes, I agree. Maybe my wording suggested otherwise. But my point was that it wouldn’t be the uploader that’s punished but the instance itself. That’s kinda weird.

It’s honestly sad that some well-intentioned laws can be used to attack online platforms.

I didn’t know what that was until I just looked it up, so, no. I named myself after the Python function random.randint.

the three main problematic authoritarian instances

wait, there are three?

what kind of mentality is this? “I’m being hostile to you because you deserve it.”

Thanks. I am aware of the George Floyd incident and the numerous others African-Americans killed for no good reason.

Yes, in hindsight, calling that genocide with no real evidence of direct killing is a bit too much. But the report I linked to mentioned coercive birth control and internment or imprisonment for violations of the family planning policy (page 35). While that indeed is not genocide per se, it does seem to bring what China is doing one step toward that direction.

I was going to agree with you until I notice you used the word “fee-fees.”

I was trying to use different terms for the same thing so that my post does not become boring to read.

Thank you. You are among one of the nobler Hexbears. I will take your advice.

I admit, I did say that. But that was after being insulted by numerous Hexbear users. Also, I did not use insults towards them (unlike them who used insults liberally).

Thank you, dear admin, for your timely and thoughtful reply.

This post seems even more likely to devolve into the same kind of attacks.

Yes, I completely agree. In fact, it seems like there are already signs of that happening.

OP: Please always report comments that harass you

Thank you. I will.

I know that walking away from an argument is extremely difficult, but in the threads you linked, there is an irreconcilable disagreement about which sources can be trusted

Irreconcilable indeed. I have learned my lesson from several fruitless arguments with them.

While I know there isn’t a consensus on this topic among lemm.ee users, I personally don’t think defederation is the correct approach

I see. I respect your decision.

the way some people casually throw around the insult “nazi” is completely ridiculous (and I don’t just mean hexbear users here)

Yeah! They are the ones diminishing the word nazi.

my edit of only striking it out instead of actually removing it was the biggest respect I can give to Hexbears users like you. but to be honest, when the members of a certain group is personally attacking you, is it possible to leave comments without the intention of making them look bad? In any case, I did not use any sort of insult toward any Hexbear users.

Thanks. I just blocked them, along with the person who told me to post dick pics (as screenshotted in my edit to the post)

Thanks. I will stop. In fact I planned for my post to be the final few hours I dedicate to those people.