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# Rules ##### 1.) No bigotry of any kind, and don’t be a jerk either • Bigotry includes but is not limited to: ableism, casteism, homophobia, lookism, queerphobia, racism, sexism, transphobia, and xenophobia. Bigotry towards non-binary people is transphobia. Truscum rhetoric is also bigotry. You getting punished for your hateful opinion, however, is not bigotry. ##### 2.) No Spam • This includes both advertising and breaking your or my Lemmy instance’s rules, such as vote manipulation or brigading. ##### 3.) Posts must have something to do with being trans, or about trans experiences • Try to stay away from negative political events too. You can joke about it, but bringing attention to something bad happening in the world might take someone out of their comfort zone— this is an escape from the constant news cycle for some. ##### 4.) No Selfies or Character Creations • Selfies are not memes! This is not a community for selfies. Picrews and other character creations such as Sims and Mii’s are considered bandwagoning, and perhaps can be a part of a different community. ##### 5.) SFW-only • This is an all ages community, so we prefer it if you take the NSFW stuff to one of the more adult oriented communities. Note: nudity is not allowed, we want everybody to be comfortable here. ##### 6.) Submissions must be a meme or they will be removed ##### 7.) Swearing is fine, but slurs are not • We want everybody to feel safe and comfortable here, so even if you want to reclaim a pejorative word that applies to you— we ask that you don’t, as this is a light-hearted community and others stumbling across your post might feel unsafe. ##### 8.) Embedded submissions should only link to trusted image sharing sites, no IP grabbers or link shorteners ##### 9.) Use but don’t misuse the report button • If something breaks these rules, or this Lemmy instance’s rules, please report it. ##### 10.) Please do not link to any terf, racist, or any other hate communities or forums • Bigots like those do not deserve any attention. Any post or comment linking to a hate community or forum will be removed ##### 11.) Don’t be a jerk nor a troll • Be nice, and don’t create social chaos. That’s it. Pretty simple, huh? # Some notes: ###### 1.) We highly encourage you to use alt text in your posts, so everybody can enjoy this community ###### 2.) It would be really nice if you flaired your posts accordingly in the title • For example, a meme about the non-binary experience could have a title like this: “[NB] Story of my life!” This will make searching for content much easier. ###### 3.) Don’t break the law • This includes the country you live in as well as the country your instance is hosted in # Sibling forums: ##### !egg_irl [https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/c/egg_irl] • Trans memes specifically about being closeted, unaware or in denial ##### !196 [https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/c/196] • Ordinary memes, but the community is very trans-accepting— and it only has one rule: when you encounter the page you must post a meme from your camera roll
  • kristina (she/her)@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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    8 months ago

    doesnt matter, im specifically referring to a trans community on hexbear, you can make an account on lemmy.ml to access traa. if you look at removals the only thing we’ve removed is transphobia. hexbear has explicitly defed from dozens of instances because they are harbingers of transphobia and harass transgender people. there is a reason why almost half of the site is populated by trans users.

    and how is ‘no fascists’ a bad rule?

    • jarfil@beehaw.org
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      8 months ago

      Hexbear was defeded by many instances, both because of the tankie vibe, and because the nice people of Hexbear went on to be not-nice on other instances. Reading their CoC now, they seem to have added a rule about the latter. Still…

      The first contradiction stems from the set of terms {“Moscow”, “no fascists”, “LGBT”}, it conjures images like:

      • Putin’s rule, and procreation camps to increase the availability of cannon fodder.
      • Videos of gay couples holding hands in the center of Moscow, getting insulted and spit on by random passerbys.

      Other contradictions are:

      • US and UK putting sanctions on Russia, and the other way around, making “legal in” (US ∩ UK ∩ Moscow) ≈ ∅.
      • {“Leftist”, “no fascists”, “vegan”} vs. China/USSR/Putin, and in particular dog farms or the “if it moves, then we eat it” saying.

      No rule alone is exactly wrong; the combination of them is a WTF.

      Keep in mind that when accessing that community, you’re beholden to both your own and the remote instance’s rules. Sometimes, those are not compatible.

      • kristina (she/her)@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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        8 months ago

        youre very in your own head about these ideas. perhaps you have been told these things and have not investigated yourself. you are not immune to propaganda.

        The first contradiction stems from the set of terms {“Moscow”, “no fascists”, “LGBT”}, it conjures images like:

        the moscow time thing is a joke, theres a lot of people that genuinely think hexbear is on putins payroll. for the record, historically the trans community has even been decried as soviet and russian infiltrators, as far back as the 50s and 60s

        Videos of gay couples holding hands in the center of Moscow, getting insulted and spit on by random passerbys.

        i have gone into my experience dealing with russia on hexbear in the past. im the head mod of c/traa on hexbear. i have personally engaged in (now) highly illegal acts in russia, largely to do with helping trans refugees escape to czechia and finland, draft dodging, and getting HRT to people along the border with china. you might be surprised to hear this, but the average young russian communist is very trans supportive and very helpful to the trans community at large in russia. so many have helped get trans people out of volatile areas like chechnya and donbas.

        “if it moves, then we eat it” saying.

        can you explain this

        • jarfil@beehaw.org
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          8 months ago

          I’m afraid the rhetoric pattern of “neg, victimhoood, authority” is not gonna work here.

          Maybe that is closer to what Russian citizens/refugees are used to, or even need, and maybe that makes Hexbear useful… but it’s far from the clearer dialectic that those already fed up with rhetoric would willingly engage with.

          That means, any “investigation” is going to be limited to a cursory glance, checking the rules, and a few interactions like this one… after which, if it looks like a duck, swims like a duck, and quacks like a duck… I like tangerine duck.(¹)

          The saying is about China, which is friends with Russia right now, and is notoriously “non-vegan”.

          Overall, if what you’re saying is that Hexbear is actually anti-Putin, and pro-idealized communism… cool, but it still doesn’t look like it, whether that be by design or not.

          CW: Food

          [¹: This is actually true. I’m a “pragmatic” vegan in that I will pick vegan when given a choice, but also eat anything non-toxic, ranging from horse steak tartare, to bull testicles, century eggs, or tangerine duck.]