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Hello users of hexbear we are going to have some extended downtime on Wednesday 26/6/24 for approximately 8 hours. Beginning around 12:30 CST / 7:30 pm CET If you have issues logging in remember to clear your cache and/or cookies.
Hello users of Hexbear with the upcoming version of lemmy [0.19.4](https://github.com/LemmyNet/joinlemmy-site/blob/main/src/assets/news/2024-06-07%20-%20Lemmy%20Release%20v0.19.4%20-%20Image%20Proxying%20and%20Federation%20improvements.md) we will be able to change local communities' federation to [local only](https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/pull/4350) however it is experimental as they are developing [private](https://github.com/LemmyNet/rfcs/pull/5) communities. In a previous federation discussion, we stated that we would temporarily remove lemm.ee from our allow-list until hexbear communities and users have the means by which to set hexbear communities to not federate out, restricting it to hexbear users. Now that this tool is available, we will refederate with lemm.ee after we complete the update. Please use this post to discuss federation in general, as well as provide feedback to the hexbear mod and admin team in regard to federation. ::: spoiler List of current federated instances on hexbear's allow-list spectreofcommunism.boo akkoma feddit.uk lemmy lemmygrad.ml lemmy transwo.men akkoma sloth.run sharkey endlesstalk.org lemmy infosec.pub lemmy akko.wtf akkoma ursal.zone mastodon suppo.fi lemmy redpawcollective.co mastodon social.harpia.red akkoma piefed.social PieFed szmer.info lemmy procial.tchncs.de Firefish lemmy.today lemmy lgbtqia.space mastodon feddit.nu lemmy novo-atlantis.null.media akkoma feddit.it lemmy whiskers.bim.boats lemmy lemmy.kde.social lemmy lemmy.myserv.one lemmy poweredbygay.social mastodon tankie.tube peertube lgbt.io mastodon vegantheoryclub.org lemmy mander.xyz lemmy midwest.social lemmy lemmy.glasgow.social lemmy transfem.space lemmy scribe.disroot.org lemmy dormi.zone lemmy transfem.social sharkey the-federation.info bookwormstory.social lemmy lemmy.wtf lemmy orcas.enjoying.yachts lemmy eviltoast.org lemmy toast.ooo lemmy lemmy.max-p.me lemmy reddthat.com lemmy lemmy.zip lemmy urbanists.social mastodon blackqueer.life mastodon undernopretext.social mastodon mycrowd.ca akkoma lemmy.studio lemmy possumpat.io lemmy lemmy.sdf.org lemmy union.place mastodon femboys.bar lemmy fanaticus.social lemmy poptalk.scrubbles.tech lemmy links.hackliberty.org lemmy feddit.cl lemmy lemmy.dbzer0.com lemmy weatherishappening.network mastodon ttrpg.network lemmy discuss.online lemmy thelemmy.club lemmy monyet.cc lemmy adultswim.fan lemmy lemmy.eco.br lemmy lemmy.radio lemmy lemdro.id lemmy codesink.io lemmy lemmy.blugatch.tube lemmy pricefield.org lemmy snowdin.town akkoma fediseer.com seafoam.space akkoma toots.matapacos.dog hometown lemmy.ml lemmy jlai.lu lemmy kyberpunk.social lemmy lemmy.fan lemmy ljs.social mastodon outerheaven.club akkoma feddit.dk lemmy linux.community lemmy futurology.today lemmy mtgzone.com lemmy lemmy.pt lemmy startrek.website lemmy discuss.tchncs.de lemmy feddit.nl lemmy lemy.lol lemmy lemmy.one lemmy iusearchlinux.fyi lemmy ::: ::: spoiler Previous federation discussion posts https://hexbear.net/post/277508 https://hexbear.net/post/280770 https://hexbear.net/post/335632 https://hexbear.net/post/369410 https://hexbear.net/post/369412 https://hexbear.net/post/458637 https://hexbear.net/post/504353 https://hexbear.net/post/514276 https://hexbear.net/post/528899 https://hexbear.net/post/552815 https://hexbear.net/post/1712067 :::
Hey hexbears just want to update everyone. We took the weekend to properly consider and are removing: programming.dev , aussie.zone , and lemm.ee from our allow-list. We will look at refederation with lemm.ee after local-only communities are developed. When that feature is available we would really like to consider changing every hexbear community to local-only except for chapotraphouse, askchapo, news, and the_dunk_tank. The final say on if a community is local only or not is 100% up to the mod team on that community. The reason for this is that lemm.ee despite having twice our monthly active users has a 700k annual comment rate to hexbear's 1 million, in addition lemm.ee has very little active communities that do not exist on hexbear. Resulting in lemm.ee benefit of federation being votes and views, with a secondary benefit of comments. However, as expressed by users belonging to marginalized groups, comments from .ee users are often lib-shit and in some cases outright hostile. While many on hexbear love dunking on these lost libs the duty to protect marginalized users is much more important. The end vote for programming.dev and aussie.zone was a tie, so we decided to break the tie in favor of defederation. The decision on lemm.ee was much harder as the average user did express desire to remain federated however the admin team decided that a temporary removal from our allow-list was the best option. As an admin team we have never wanted to prioritize growth, and we wanted to give federation with liberal instances a try, however we consider providing a safer browsing experience for marginalized users more important than the opportunity to dunk. While user side instance blocking and local sort are options, neither address the issue of federated instance users coming into posts in hexbear communities to make reactionary comments. Thank you everyone who gave input and please provide any feedback, comments, concerns, etc in comments. final vote count: federation all 32 aussie.zone 27 lemm.ee 41 programming.dev 27 lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 defederation all 40 aussie.zone 19 lemm.ee 4 programming.dev 19 lemmy.blahaj.zone 43
The maintenance work has just begun, anyone on the with the chapo.chat homeserver will not be able to use Matrix until it's back. Please see [our Mastodon](https://toots.matapacos.dog/@hexbear) or future post edits for updates! Edit: The server is back! Let us know if you have any issues in this thread.
Hello users of Hexbear, I wanted to make this post to inform you that hexbear will be temporarily changing to requiring an application for new users. This will stay in effect until after the upcoming pictrs version, and the development of additional mod tooling. After many complaints mods may begin removing Yakub memes as well as any explicit comment asking a user to post hog, the difference is that while "post hog" is allowed with extreme prejudice commenting "show us your tiny penis" is not allowed, removals will be subject to moderator discretion. In addition, we would like to reiterate that Hexbear is a space for all our comrades, even if you may not understand their experience, please refrain from labeling a fellow user a wrecker or troll. Using conditions as a pejorative is not allowed, please engage in good-faith and remember the human! Finally I wanted to hear the user's thoughts, opinions, comments, and proposals regarding Hexbear's recent federation with other lemmy instances. There are two mod based proposals that I wish to open voting on: 1. Should we add sh.itjust.works to the hexbear.net/instances allow-list 2. Should we remove lemm.ee from the hexbear.net/instances allow-list Use  to vote for removing lemm.ee from the allow-list 11 Use  to vote for adding sh.itjust.works to the allow-list 111 Use  to vote for keeping the allow-list as is (lemm.ee on the list and sh.itjustworks off the list) 60 As always thank you to the moderators and users for making this place amazing! Votes as of Aliveelectricwire please correct me if my count is wrong.
 Due to recent events and the discussion in the [Amendments to the Code of Conduct](https://hexbear.net/post/352119) post we are suspending provisional amendments to the Code of Conduct in specific regard to federation. As we continue to find our footing we may discuss this again. The rule change in [!the_dunk_tank@hexbear.net](https://hexbear.net/c/the_dunk_tank) prohibiting named posts of Admins and Moderators as well as direct links posts will remain for now. Despite the suspension of the amendments, I encourage everyone to treat other others with good-faith unless they show otherwise, show considerable restraint in instance's meta posts, and abide by meta community post's requests to center discussion on local users. Reminder that you must follow Hexbear and federated instances codes of conduct and posted sidebar rules for communities. You may use this post to discuss further if you wish to     
Due to multiple factors, such as [unaddressed ableist removals](https://hexbear.net/pictrs/image/3df0e4c7-bb64-4c00-bbdb-5c753018895c.jpeg?format=webp) from the /c/196 moderators, [defense of chasers](https://hexbear.net/pictrs/image/97e9abd7-e8be-499e-8db7-7a7d5d1e2762.webp), [no-quarter rules regarding our users](https://hexbear.net/pictrs/image/8dc37487-d36b-4a55-9519-c3f8bb4fcae6.png), [leakage of good-faith DMs from our admin team](https://hexbear.net/post/361826), and a general lack of initiative to punish these behaviors, we have come to the conclusion that the 196 community on lemmy.blahaj.zone has made the fediverse an unsafe space for our queer, disabled, neurodivergent, non-western, and other marginalized comrades on this forum, and we will be defederating from lemmy.blahaj.zone until we can be confident that this will not continue to be an issue. We have attempted to make good-faith parley with both the instance admin and the comm moderators, but we've reached a point which we feel that until these behaviors are addressed by instance administration, we can no longer continue to federate in good-faith while our users are being actively invalidated by a small-but-vocal portion of the forum. Once we are confident that these behaviors have ceased and are unlikely to continue, we are more-than-happy to refederate in the name of queer solidarity. Thanks for bearing with us :07:
Hi all, With regards to our recent integration into the Fediverse, it has become evident that specific rules should be outlined regarding our conduct towards it and our place in it. As such, we are making provisional amendments to the Code of Conduct in specific regard to federation as we find our footing and stake our ground as a part of the wider Fediverse ecosystem. The amendments are as such, demarcated within the dividers: __________ # Federation In regards to the Fediverse, a dual-pronged approach should be assumed: **Local Communities** Conduct remains as previously outlined [in the Hexbear Code of Conduct], except: 1. Users visiting Hexbear should be given breathing room to inquire in good-faith about topics that seem obvious to well-trodden leftists. Assume good faith in even the most obvious of questions, except in cases where a user is explicitly acting in a combative or unreasonable manner. 2. Do not ping users from other federated instances with intent to goad or mock. 3. Do not directly link to comments or posts of other federated instances on public posts with intent to goad or mock. 4. Disengagement rules, whilst not amended, are thoroughly emphasized regarding visiting users. **Federated Instances** Assume the conduct outlined regarding local communities, as well as: 1. When in a federated instance, their rules (and their code of conduct) apply. 2. Allow instances their own space for discussion, if requested implicitly or explicitly. If said discussion regards this site or its users, you are allowed to discuss said discussion within the local purview (meaning, within a Hexbear community), with regards to the rules laid out prior. 3. Conduct that is deemed untenably toxic to the Fediverse and Hexbear’s standing within it (by discretion of Hexbear moderation) may be subject to reprisal, regardless of whether it is explicitly outlined. _______ We're thankful to the moderation and admins of the instances federated with us for their patience as we carve out our own little hole within the Fediverse. And to our beautiful posters, thank you for bearing with us in this week where decades happen 
Up until now our main means of communication outside the site during e.g. downtime has been via [our Twitter account](https://twitter.com/chapo_chat). Given 's innovative destruction of Twitter as a serious or reliable platform, we'll be using a Mastodon account going forward: [@hexbear@matapacos.dog](https://toots.matapacos.dog/@hexbear). If you're on Mastodon already, please give us a follow! And if you're not, you should sign up! https://toots.matapacos.dog is an instance hosted by our very own [@PorkrollPosadist@hexbear.net](https://hexbear.net/u/PorkrollPosadist). See you on Mastodon folks 😎
It's been a long journey since we announced this back in December 2021. Welcome to the new Hexbear! ~~If~~ When you encounter a bug, please report it here. Please give us as much detail as you can (how to reproduce the bug, the platform/browser you're using) so it's easier for us to fix! ## Known Issues : A list of issues, not exhaustive or in priority order. We're looking into all of these and will be deploying a variety of hotfixes over the next few days/weeks with fixes. 🚨 A lot of these are bugs that exist in upstream Lemmy 🚨 - On some errors, infinite rotating spinner with no error message - Includes resetting password via password reset link - Can't navigate away when text is entered - Issue logging out if initial pageload was not on homepage - Reporting posts does not work in portrait mode on mobile. Temporary workaround: rotate to landscape mode - Jerboa broken due to api changes - Inline gifs/images are able to render way too big - portrait mode for tablet width/aspect ratios probably should not show sidebar, too much wasted space. - disabling "Show Read Posts" in user Profile hides featured/pinned posts from the homepage - [Highlighting then clicking reply to automatically quote includes "undefined" before the quote.](https://hexbear.net/pictrs/image/3f709ec5-fddd-4500-9f40-a95843129176.png) - Sitewide Featured Post titles turn blue when moused-over, becoming illegible on the blue background - comment permalink is too easy to misclick when aiming for upbear or username. - Post shown occasionally changes out from under you while browsing, comments remain the same If you are open to volunteering, we are looking for **frontend developers** who can help figure out and fix some of these UX issues. If you think you can help, please send Layla a message on Element ([@layla:chapo.chat](https://matrix.to/#/@layla:chapo.chat)). None of this is possible without your continued support. If you enjoy the site, please consider donating via our [Liberapay](https://liberapay.com/hexbear) or [Patreon](https://www.patreon.com/hexbear) :hexbear-retro: Edit: sorry for the second spurt of downtime folks, we are trying to solve the performance issues
MOSTLY kidding. We have spun up our own cytube server so we are no longer beholden to the weirdo CHUD dev that owns cytu.be. Join us at our (probably permanent unless something bad happens) new website: https://live.hexbear.net/ Movies will now be hosted here: https://live.hexbear.net/c/movies and music here: https://live.hexbear.net/c/music We literally spun this up in about 2 days so if there are any issues you run in to please create a thread on /c/feedback or reach out! Note: You will need to create a new account for this. Neither your cytube login info or Hexbear login info will work for the new site!
https://cytu.be/r/hexbear Get in, comrades. Ep. 6 to 10 tonight. Crossposting because I can't sticky this in c/anime
It's true, all of it. It's December, it's movie nomination time, the love for our comrades, the fact that this is a crosspost. It's all [there](https://hexbear.net/post/156532). Check it out.
[Movie time](https://hexbear.net/post/151475)
[Hot fresh Queue for the trough](https://hexbear.net/post/144756)
I'm not copying the whole thing. That's klunky. Just go [here](https://hexbear.net/post/143176). Look at it.
https://cytu.be/r/hexbear NOW OVER
[New queue just dropped](https://hexbear.net/post/138677)
Come and :vote:
-:Direct all love and affection to [@SuperNovaCouchGuy](/u/SuperNovaCouchGuy). Original post [here](https://hexbear.net/post/134433):- ***!!!!! IMPORTANT UPDATE !!!!!*** In my troglodyte nerdgasmic haze I overlooked the fact that we already have a Friday movie night, therefore, I think it would be best to change the date to the same time on Saturday instead, so people can catch both the Friday movie and Evangelion if need be! However if this is not ideal then we can keep the same date but stream on [another cytube server](https://cytu.be/r/chapochat2), either works and I'm happy to do both so nobody gets left out (because its literally just clicking ctrl c and v a few times lol) ***!!!!! IMPORTANT UPDATE !!!!!*** PSA: If you want to watch free anime thats bad and you should not head on over to gogoanime because that would mean that you cuck all those Japanese animation studios who overwork their staff! Since the vimeo upload limit resets on a weekly basis, I have been able to pirate 7 new Episodes of the original 1995 Neon Genesis Evangelion for public viewing! However, it seems the last viewing was a bit inconvenient for the majority of users (citizens of the great Satan) since in hindsight youse probably instead had to get up for work/morning fap/etc. etc. Therefore, the new time has changed to one that is hopefully more convenient for everyone. Please feel free to say if this new time is actually more inconvenient, otherwise, inshallah it will be so. I'm also open to streaming Episodes 1-3 next week at 11PM Tuesday CST if anybody wants to have a catchup session, so please make it known if anyone wants this too!
[Votes](https://hexbear.net/post/130476) are in! Here’s what we decided to subject our psyches to this month! ==================================== 6/8- [U already missed it](https://hexbear.net/post/130366) 13/8 - "THEY LIVE"(1988) and "COME AND SEE"(1985) Double feature. - Friday the 13th special! Where-in I skip the vote queue because it's the number holiday and it's festive and nobody can stop me from doing it without using more effort than it's worth. (CW - Come and see is a pretty brutal war movie. Lots of gore and hopelessness) 20/8 - Monty Python's "MONTY PYTHON AND THE HOLY GRAIL"(1975) and Monties' Python "MONTY PYTHON AND THE LIFE OF BRIAN"(1979) Double feature (feat Monty and his python) - Monty Python 27/8 - "SHREK"((2001)a space odyssey) and "Tank Girl"(1995) Double feature - Because I used the first slot for spooky day and now I have to smoosh the two together. ~~IF YOU HAVE A WORKING LINK OR COPY DM ME. Y'all didn't include the links and now I gotta do effort. >=[~~ nvm, we good. ==================================== Movies play at 08:00 & 20:00 CT every Friday. Music plays all the time. Well… Like half the time. Queue more albums. DM me for any questions/concerns or if you wanna schedule something. I miss having DJs and really the Friday thing is just momentum, we can do movies whenever. Like, go queue one right now that's fine.
[:vote: here](https://hexbear.net/post/130366) This Special Movie friday is from an Idea we had where the first Friday of each month will be a comm specific movie friday, this month being c/latam. This Friday we were planning to have a Spanish Language Movie Friday. so Post your favorite publicly posted or pirately hosted movie for Cytube Fridays, some restrictions will be that the movie you nominate must be made in Latam this Friday its going to be a double Feature so that mean that the 1st and 2nd most voted movies will be the ones we watch Movies usually play 08:00am & 8:00pm Central Time Cytube is a finicky beast and usually accepts Youtube, Vimeo, Daily Motion, GoogleDrive(requires plug-ins, ez pz)and occasionally others if it feels charitable that day. Here’s the manual This Special Movie friday is from an Idea we had where the first Friday of each month will be a comm specific movie friday, this month being c/latam. X-post for [@thelastaxolotl](/u/thelastaxolotl). Thanks for picking up the slack.
[Votes](https://hexbear.net/post/120030) are in! Here's what we decided to subject our psyches to this month! ==================================== 7/2 - Pink Floyd's The Wall - Back when bands were like "Yeah, I support feature length album videos." 7/9 - White Tiger - A Russian war film about the incomplete defeat of fascism. English subs. CW for gore, cause it's a war film. 7/16 - Godzilla vs Destroya/ Godzilla vs Mothra - DOUBLE FEATURE! 7/23 - Zootopia - :sicko-yes: :bunny-cop: :sicko-flipped: 7/30- Gentleman of Fortune (1971) - One of the people's favorite unlyrical comedies, about good-natured director of the kindergarten who, like two drops, looks like a recidivist who escaped from prison. Criminal investigators decided to use this similarity to search for stolen archeological items. ==================================== Movies play at 08:00 & 20:00 CT every Friday. Music plays all the time. Well... Like half the time. Queue more albums. DM me for any questions/concerns or if you wanna schedule something. I miss having DJs and group hate watching of ballot-shit.
Come & :vote: (post) [here](https://hexbear.net/post/120030)
A movie about plants & the men who love them. No Plugin required.
Episode 1/7: "Different Youth" - Featuring subtitles and weird CGI animation. :animarx: [Link](https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLWxJQNyu0ylp5SiE_RTxOVmoOfVAROMWA) to full series. You memey sickos are going to love it.