Hexbear’s new head of operations just dropped, and their way of dealing with the fallout of their last struggle session is to hand bans out like candy to their concerned and disillusioned users while throwing out “epic” quips like insecure teenagers along the way coupled with their communication (and seemingly contempt) towards their own userbase which isn’t helping their allegations at all and the revelations that were learned about Hexbear’s moderators and admins from their most recent struggle session.
The last few days have honestly shaken my faith in Hexbear and their team and I hope the mods and admins at Lemmygrad are monitoring the situation closely.
Very bizarre wrecker behavior ongoing over there from the admin team. It’s hard to say what’s precisely going on because all the major admins and mods have completely closed ranks against the wider community, preferring to communicate in their own private chat rather than express their positions publicly to their “comrades” in the wider community.
The fact that the newcomer admin, currently LARPing as a wrecker nonce, is now the second top admin on that site means that whatever issue this behavior stems from is likely emanating from the highest site leadership itself, given that the top admin account is an inactive placeholder shell. This is such boring reddit-typical power mod nonsense, right up to the new admin LARPing as some micro e-celeb through their position and the rest of the admins adopting a “us vs. them” mentality against the community, that it’s frankly just demoralizing to see it “suddenly” happen to one of the only other leftist spaces on the English internet apart from LG.
The way this incident is spiralling really is showing what personalities are ultimately running the show over there and turns out it’s the same power-tripping story as in any subreddit or forum, apparently. You expect, or rather hope, for something different here when we’re all supposed to be comrades taking refuge from a wider internet space hostile to our very existence, but the way the new admin is straight up banning people, in one instance a permaban to what was clearly an unserious request made under emotional tension, shows that’s apparently not the case. What a waste to treat such a hard-won and painfully built community in this kind of way. It’s quite the ironic touch given that the closure of their site’s r/SLS comms, which precipitated all this drama, was initially justified under the pretext of reforming the community to uphold more “proper” leftist values and yet the admin leadership, in the span of a mere day, seems to reveal that they’re unwilling to walk their own talk.
Ya, look, I don’t have any particular beef with any admin or mod or whatever, I’ve never had a cross word with anyone. But it’s pretty weird that someone can disappear for years and then come back as an admin overnight, and even weirder that half the forum seems to have some cult of personality around them that’s been maintained in their absence like some kind of cargo cult, lol.
Then you have the fact that seemingly some of the people accusing the wider community of being liberals/cishetbros/self-hating trans(?) are themselves displaying liberal attitudes when they receive comradely criticism.
I dunno man it’s all too terminally online for me.