I’m not sure what’s going on over there, but half the time I see a post from there or go into a comment section and it’s just…bad. Like old reddit the_donald bad. Constant trolling, etc. You TS just really bad vibes. I’ve been blocking the communities as they come up, but I’m not sure what else I can do.
We’re polite when met with good faith, next time you see hexbears ask them a question about their beliefs or whatever is going on, a clarification, a tangent, whatever. Just ask a real question (not a bullshit weighted question designed to be a landmine) like “could you tell me more about X? I don’t agree, but I haven’t heard about that before” and you’ll get polite and friendly responses (usually lol)
And yeah we get pretty rowdy and antagonistic at times like when we tell people to fuck off for throwing a fit about pronouns (which we did, then we banned them, then we made pronouns on Hexbear mandatory lol). That’s how you protect your community from reactionaries, racists, and bigots
Are pronouns actually mandatory on Hex?
Yes.
Like you can link me to something that says that?
Just try to make an account without pronouns on hexbear, you’ll see it is impossible.
Yes.
Yes, and we banned everyone who didn’t want them mandatory. Because using optional pronouns is just a magnet for “this person is trans, dm them ‘you will never be woman, kys’” from Nazis. If everyone uses pronouns display, it is normalized.
you’re allowed to set them to none/use name if you really prefer, but pronouns are always displayed yes
it’s part of what has made hexbear the friendliest space to be trans (period imo, but especially online)
Yes, but you can choose any/none/use name if you dont want it listed