• Eager to discuss the cool things they've read.

• Able to make me laugh.

• Cleans up after themselves (I know, low bar).

• Communist of some stripe.

Superficial but:

• Physically stronger than me.

Hexbear user here so I've no say in whether you defed or not.

Just wanted to say, I appreciate how level headed you've been in this post and with defederation as a whole even though your previous interaction with Hexbear users has made you the target of comments that were heated (to say the least).

Reddit and ~~twitter~~ X, racing to see who can burn their company to ash the quickest.

The popular consensus on Hexbear is anti-NATO, rather than pro-Russia. If this is a sticking point for you, I don't think you will agree much with the average users on geopolitics.

But, as long as you stay out of the news megathread, you likely won't see much discussion of the war on Hexbear.

The emote problem seems like it'd be really annoying, I've stopped using them when I'm not on hexbear communities (though sometimes I forget what instance I'm on sorry in advance).

As for the "wrong type of leftist" sort of stuff, hexbear tries to be a big tent community for leftists (we've got all sorts over there although it's admittedly heavily leaning towards marxist-leninists) and it tends to be a much more welcoming site outside of those overcrowded threads on active where everyone is arguing.

Hopefully the chaos will die down soon enough.

If you pop into that users history, you'll see that the interacting they're talking about is whining at me for a couple of days because I called them a racist.

democracy

Poland

South Korea

Taiwan

"Mods! mods! Delete this tankie at once."

They think this is Reddit.

Police should be allowed at pride, leather daddies not so much. As a cishet ally it is my job to maintain the tone of queer groups so they don't come across as weird to the homophobes.

J.K. Rowling's abuse at the hands of trans activists is another such thing that I object to, sure she's been campaigning against the rights of trans people, and sure her supporters are violent bigots including members of the EDL but we have to be civil about these things.

Bloke in my street covered his 1m X 1m front garden with an artificial lawn and then spent hours cutting each blade of fake grass to a uniform height. Like, on his knees with a scissors and a rule.

And the children of these people deserve to starve?

pays for the children of non-working people (there's a shitload of subsidies going into their pockets),

Do children deserve to starve because their parents aren't employed?