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The THIRD Palestinian Hexbear Donation Drive IS NOW LIVE! Contribute now and your donations will be MATCHED 100% up to the first 1000€! - Hexbear
hexbear.netEDIT AGAIN We've raised so far $770 in donations, meaning we've already donated
a whopping $1540!!!! including the matching! You dears are wonderful, I love you
all! The Third Hexbear Palestinian Donation Drive starts NOW, as explained in my
previous post [https://hexbear.net/post/8121292]: I landed a job in March and I
will be putting forward 1000€ to match donations by other Hexbear users to a
number of Palestinian links (please, if there are other links that I’ve missed
or if any of the links isn’t valid for some reason, let me know ASAP). As it
worked the previous donation drive [https://hexbear.net/post/3970590] thanks to
dear user IgnusNilsen [u/IgnusNilsen], I have compiled a list of what I believe
to be confirmed links to Palestinian funds for donations. Simply carry out a
donation to any of the links provided and send me proof of said donation via DM
or posting a comment in this post. If you wish your username to be public in the
donation, you can also just post the proof in a reply to this post. I will try
to, as fast as possible (keep in mind that I live in west-European timezone),
post both the donation carried out by you and my matching donation to the
comments of this post together with the amount donated thus far! Let me know if
you want the donation to be anonymous and not related to your username, BY
DEFAULT I WILL MENTION THE USERNAME OF THE DONOR Thank you very much to
MohammedTheCommunistPalestinian [u/MohammedTheCommunistPalestinian], CARCOSA
[u/CARCOSA] and Soliman_Ayman [u/Soliman_Ayman] for helping me organize this
donation drive. If anyone else is capable of contributing a significant amount
to the matching donations, let me know via DM so that we can organize it too and
I’ll edit the post. Thank you to OurTimeWillCome [u/OurTimeWillCome] for keeping
us alert and reminding us when someone needs help. Feel free to crosspost this
donation post to any other federated Lemmy instance in case anyone else wants to
contribute. ACTIVE LINKS (PLEASE DM ME IF THE VALIDITY OF THE LINKS IS
QUESTIONED OR IF I MISSED ANY LINK) Mahmoud – Help me build my future and build
my family home
[https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-me-build-my-future-and-build-my-family-home?attribution_id=sl%3A50f68586-5436-4662-aa81-2f6072940a1e]
Help Karim and my family… My child needs urgent surgeries and our life is very
difficult
[https://chuffed.org/project/150674-support-umm-mohammeds-family-to-rebuild-their-future-and-to-survive-amidst-the-genocide]
Aya Mohamed - Support Mohamed’s family to reach safety outside Gaza
[https://www.gofundme.com/f/support-mohameds-family-to-reach-safety-outside-gaza]
Ibrahim hema - Getting food for my brothers [https://gofund.me/5ec3ed09e] Save
Hala and her Children in Gaza
[https://chuffed.org/project/172805-save-hala-and-her-children-in-gaza] Help
Ehab and Abeer Rebuild Their Lives
[https://www.gofundme.com/f/donate-to-help-abeer-and-her-family] Help Doaa
Radwan’s Family in Gaza
[https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-doaa-radwans-family-in-gaza] Sara and Ahmed -
Help Rebuild Sara and Ahmed's Lives After the Gaza War
[https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-rebuild-sara-and-ahmeds-lives-after-the-gaza-war]
Support Heba and Ahmed’s Survival in Gaza
[https://www.gofundme.com/f/support-heba-and-ahmeds-survival-in-gaza] Help
Taghreed’s family evacuate Gaza
[https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-taghreeds-family-evacuate-gaza]
HelpMyBrotherADownSynd
[https://www.spotfund.com/story/50e29b37-5a06-4282-9d3d-a1376f4b13ae] Save
Raghda & Alaa’s Family from Genocide in Gaza
[https://www.gofundme.com/f/get-out-and-survive-the-genocide-in-gaza] Help my
Family Survive [https://www.gofundme.com/manage/ehfkt-help-my-family-survive]
Help the People of Gaza
[https://chuffed.org/project/171225-help-the-people-of-gaza]
Some comrades over at Hexbear have organized a donation drive for Palestine and, over the past few weeks, have managed to raise over $1500 for verified Palestinian fundraisers. The fediverse is a good place full of good people.
well, at least there will be a positive effect from them for once
AFAIK it’s the third such fundraiser from over there
that’s genuinely nice
I’ve never heard of Hexbear. Care to explain?
Come see for yourself. I did.
hexbear.net is an explicitly and unapologetically instance of Lemmy. They’re known for their active userbase, light trigger on banning Zionist, transphobic or even pro-western content (which angers many people who live in the west), and their love for beanis
You guys are so weird. Russia is awful for non-cis people and you’re all falling over yourselves simping for them.
They are authoritarian left and even though Russia is not a leftist country they will refuse to say a single thing bad about Russia, China, and some will even say nothing is wrong with north Korea. If you search the instance for ‘Ukraine’ you will see them saying Russia is the good guy in the Ukrainian war. They will say things like authoritarianism doesn’t actually exist. I legitimately wonder how many posts are state sponsored lol. There are a lot of them on lemmy.ml as well
Oh? What authority do they posses?
https://hexbear.net/search?q=Ukraine&type=All&listingType=All&page=1&sort=TopAll&titleOnly=false
shrug
Just a week ago I had a conversation with someone that is thinking that Russia is a still a communist country and was arguing if I was sure about the opposite
Many instances defederated from them because a large chunk of the user base was abusive and brigading. To an extent even the worst right wing instances federated couldn’t match.
Lemmy.world defederated from hexbear “pre-emptively” before they even had federation active. To this day, I have never seen this mythical hexbear brigading.
Yes. And people including myself have accounts on other servers. And experienced it personally 3-4 years ago. That you didn’t experience it doesn’t disprove it. There’s a reason many of us chose servers like world as primary, that didn’t federate.
It’s more often the reverse. You’ll see accounts in hexbear-adjacent servers posting “Why Stalin Was Worse Than Hitler” tier content, getting banned, and then coming over to .world to scream and cry about how they’ve been censored by the mean Tankies.
[source needed]
I don’t like tankies much either but I’ve seen way worse from the fascists.
To be fair, they did specify right-wing Lemmy instances, not right-wingers in general, and I can’t think of any instances that would meet that definition off the top of my head.
But Hexbear definitely has a reputation as some of the worst of the worst of the normal instances. Blahaj defederated from them despite Ada trying to get the trans communities of both instances connected because of the harassment, brigading, and outright transphobia Hexbear inflicted on Blahaj users for not being the right kind of leftists. You can still find the community discussions on the topic in the general instance posts. They even tried to claim that Blahaj was being transphobic to them. You know, the LGBTQ instance created and ran to be a space for trans people and others first and foremost.
Hexbear is also known to have at least once tried to convince their mods to “take over other instances and ban all the non-communists.”
I believe that at this point if you were to download the stuff to spin up your own instance, Hexbear is on the list of instances that are defederated by default because so many instances have defederated them because of their behavior.
Ultimately that comes down to personal experience and circumstance. And as you can see a lot of people either experienced it themselves or saw it as well. And I don’t think it’s controversial to say that the Chapo Trap House crew are rather immature. Unfortunately for you a lot of the evidence that you’re searching for is lost to time on instances that were Federated that have shut down. If you have access to hexbear you could probably find some of them I’m sure lurking around from 3 to 4 years ago.
Not going to lie I haven’t interacted with them in at least 3 years and I haven’t missed it. Maybe they’ve matured. Anything is possible.
I saw right wingers raging (rarely), but there would be a post about Bernie sanders and every time there’s a hexbear user saying “this capitalist bootlicking swine, I never want to see his revolting war criminal face again.” And replied to all comments saying “wtf is wrong with you” with similar comments. Go check the thread of my instance asking if we should defederate, I can find it if you want. So many people who said “the toxicity from hexbear is overwhelming,” myself included.
I don’t disagree with you. I think that we should encourage the hexbears to be pitted against the great danger first - fascism. When I discuss factionalism and solidarity, I try to put the accent on “I understand your criticism, and that is why we should focus on the great danger: fascism and corporatism. If we will grow without compromising, we must rally all behind that cause, so that we foster solidarity.”
Propaganda at its core, is “sling something at the wall often enough and it becomes truth”.
Not really sure if it’s useful to ask if diarrea or regular shit is worse.
I don’t want to step in either
Well, for one, in eg. East Germany, homosexuality was decriminalised before in the West.
In fascist Italy and Germany, you were sent to a concentration camp.
And women’s rights, and public infrastructure, and access to education etc.
True. That’s what the east reserved for people who critizised the state
There were no concentration camps in the Eastern Block, though, the word you’re looking for is “prison”, which exists in all societies (mostly in the US though).
As for criticising the state, you couldn’t publicly criticise the party leader or the communist model in public without getting in trouble (no jail for just talking though), but as they say “in communism you couldn’t criticise one person (the party leader), in capitalism you can’t criticise your boss or your company”.
I’d like to thank you for proving my point
Not disputing your claim, as it doesn’t surprise me at all, but I’m curious: What are “the worst right wing instances” ?
I haven’t paid enough attention to notice any instances with a consistent and noticeable right-wing lean.
Seconded, I am curious, too. I’ve only seen Tankies, Democrats, and Anarchists in lemmy.world, I haven’t come across one Trump supporter in months.
There used to be exploding-heads.com, it was right-wing but not particularly active IIRC
it’s just a leftist lemmy instance
It’s a leftist instance that’s very active and will argue with people that post anticommunist popaganda.