commrequest

::: spoiler introduction I was inspired to make the request followning [this little interaction](https://hexbear.net/post/3720479/5526062) I like hexbear and I like the community here, most of the time. Generally. I guess I like it too much, because I'm on here a lot. I just enjoy the fact that I do not need to hold my tongue here, I don't get odd glances when I say it's funny a bunch of redditors volunteering in Ukraine got hit with missiles because they couldn't log off. I don't have to condemn hamas, I don't have to pretend like genocide is nuanced, I don't have to constantly deprogram people from obvious propaganda. One thing I don't really find I discuss on here is conspiracy theories though. It's not that the site is unwelcoming for it, they show up from time to time, but there's no dedicated place for it. I think it would be nice to have that. Sometimes I go through old posts and it's wild to me how much suspicious stuff we find, but never really compile. Once in a while we compile things [like this about the Uyghur genocide](https://hexbear.net/post/271448) but they tend to disappear too. Same goes for individual users efforts like [@emizeko@hexbear.net](https://hexbear.net/u/emizeko)s great little comment compiling a few articles about [the US drug trade](https://hexbear.net/comment/3838265) disappear too, either because they are forgotten or because the user deletes their comments. I know [@robinn@hexbear.net](https://hexbear.net/u/robinn) has had several accounts doing immense amounts of work debunking "common knowledge" and I've seen him get called a conspiracy theorist plenty of times. ::: --- ::: spoiler My motivation for it being specifically a conspiracy comm I'd like to have a comm that's dedicated to discussing and compiling these things, so it's not just something that shows up once in a while in a comment chain and is then gone and forgotten. I'd like for it to be a resource we can all use and maybe also something that forces us to investigate our own beliefs from time to time. I know at least one user has made some effortposts about 9/11 that made me question my own worldview. The comm would be a place to discuss and ask about things that are treated as conspiracies, actual conspiracies and things users find suspicious in general (for example [the POC man who got lynched this year](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/sep/18/javion-magee-death)) What's important to me about making a dedicated comm is that on all other websites communities dedicated to these kinds of discussions end up being incredibly reactionairy. Everywhere else conspiracy communities inevitably (and almost immediately) decend into discussions about lemuria, planet x and all bad things are blamed on DA JOOS. That sucks. I'd like to be able to talk about actual conspiracies too, the ones we might not agree on. Things like the Brabrant killers, ISIS' connections to the US, MK Ultra, Operation Gladio today, Adrian Zenz, Jeffrey Epstein and actual possible pedophile rings, Bohemian Grove and, yes, the deep state (here I'm thinking of things like the son of one of the orchestrators of The Business Plot becoming US President). ::: --- ::: spoiler for you who think believing/caring about conspiracies is silly If you're against the idea of conspiracy theories, consider the following: The idea that political activists are disappeared is seen as a conspiracy despite things like [ferguson leaders dying](https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-news/ferguson-death-mystery-black-lives-matter-michael-brown-809407/). The "Uyghur genocide" being cooked up by the US state department is seen as a conspiracy . Think of all the coups that were called conspiracies.  not killing himself is a joke. The Nord Stream Pipeline being blown up by the US is a conspiracy. People being tortured at a [black site by Chicago PD](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/feb/24/chicago-police-detain-americans-black-site) was a conspiracy until it wasn't. Hell, Ukraine being full of nazis and corrupt is treated like a conspiracy. ::: --- ::: spoiler for you who thinks this just sounds like regular discussions If you're thinking "well that just sounds like the news comm, you're just discussing world events" I'd say I can see where you're coming from, since you're a strawman I've built with my own words, but I also disagree. The purpose of the comm is not to discuss current events, but to compile all the many news reports that are then forgotten. We like to say libs have a memory of about 2 years, the purpose of this comm would be to draw on the large memory of our brave powerposters... I dunno, I had good words in my brain but they disappeared at the keyboard. ::: --- I'd like to mod it and I'd like help to mod it as well. I can imagine there would be a demand of certain subjects being off limits and I'd be fine with that within reason. I don't really wanna have a flat earth society showing up either and I don't think chemtrails would be welcome either, though that one is closer to being founded in someone being critical of the government at least. Tl;dr I think it would be useful and good. We all individually have to run around with our own bookmarks debunking various claims that are treated as conspiracies. This could function as a compiler. We all still have a bunch of stuff we consider common knowledge that is actually just propaganda/psy-ops. It would be healthy for us to have a place to get challenged on that common knowledge. A conspiracy community on hexbear would also function as a safe space that could invite in new users that are interested in conspiracies, but don't wanna hear racists reactionairy drivel or talk about flat earth.

the point of the community is to avoid speaking english and to post translations to english only in spoilers in any post or comment. any person with any language can post on any topic, article, etc. not in english on this comm. any person that speaks a language other than english can become a mod of the comm.

Comm to talk about magic the gathering. I formed a discord server for hexbears to talk magic before, but some people prefer matrix, and we're generally too different in timezones for a discord to be appropriate. I would like to discuss the game and share resources for playing the game cheaply/for free. I should have enough time to mod this myself.

Comm for disabled comrades to talk about our disabilities, disability justice, accessibility and the lack thereof, disability as it relates to revolutionary politics, ableism in communist spaces, and everything else that relates to disability. I have extremely limited energy but I can be a mod for this comm if I have help. I think a c/disabled megathread would also be a good thing to have.

I don't speak Esperanto yet but I think it might be a good thing to have a community for, given the language's internationalist nature and its historical connections to left-wing politics. If you look for federated Esperanto communities, one of them is basically locked because they moved instances, and the other is dead as a doornail. An Esperanto comm could be used to talk about Esperanto history and culture and news from Esperantujo, or help people learn the language, or people could discuss language politics, et cetera, all in Esperanto. Hexbear does have that weird thing where it won't let you post if you say that your post is in a language other than English, though. An alternative might be to see if there are any Esperantist instances we can federate with.

A community to discuss and oppose the USA's cultural imperialism, a bit like the .ml community NoYank, except with a better ideological basis and less reactionary mod. The name is just a suggestion and the exact scope can still be worked out.

Obviously it's not a good name so something like /c/hiphop would be good or honestly any other name people can think of. /c/music exists but some of us were talking about it during a movie night and we think /c/music is a little too general especially with how much regional difference there is in rap. I would be down to be a mod for it, I'm not sure if the other people who were a part of the convo would want to be mods.

I actually do appreciate rule 8 in the_dunk_tank. People seem to struggle with the rule a bit too much, and I'm afraid that mods are bored of removing rule 8 related posts. Could we just have a community for low tier bullshit that rule 8 fans can block? Ya posting directly to [!shitreactionariessay@lemmygrad.ml](https://lemmygrad.ml/c/shitreactionariessay) is a good rule and makes sense, but people don't seem to be able to follow it. Heck I'll even mod the community if you make it. Thanks 

Having a dedicated space to this would be nice. Currently if you want DIY resources you need to search for it and find the old threads, like the resource thread by u/quartz242, or the thread I made. Discussion around DIY is very scattered, rarely in posts, and some in random threads. Having all of it contained in one place would be better.

I think we should have a feminism comm dedicated to feminist theory, women's issues, etc. There's already feminist discussions on Hexbear fairly frequently, so I foresee there being enough activity to warrant a community. However, @thelastaxolotl suggested just reusing c/womenby when I brought this up last month, so here's my formal request for either a feminism community or the reopening of c/womenby. ...also how do we nominate mods?

It would almost certainly be a community with very few if not zero active posters, and there's already a few relevant communities on .world, and nothing's stopping people from posting d/Deaf or HoH-related content on other communities... But even keeping all that in mind, I still think having a /c/deaf would be nice anyways. The community could also be called /c/dhoh or something else entirely, it depends on what people prefer.

MLP comm since we have one for furries

I want to role play as Harold Halibut

as evidenced by [this](https://hexbear.net/post/2449813?scrollToComments=false) thread, we should have a /c/pics comm

There are many barriers that disallow comrades from getting unbiased input from a medical professional, and I think this comm could provide that access. I have seen some thoroughly uninformed medical takes here, and this could serve as a place for people who want research-backed answers to their medical questions. Would also be a place to post advancements in medicine, changes in medical policy, etc I know there is already /c/drugs but that is primarily aimed at recreational use and harm reduction. Unsure if we would be required to label the comm "This is not medical advice", while still providing it.

You can DM me I'll send it to you in advance so you can decide, but trust me the impact is going to be so funny.

ive been thinking abt this for a while now: a comm for caffeinated drinks. im a big coffee drinker and rlly enjoy the process of brewing. this could be for tea too, and energy drinks ig. theres a lot of knowledge in brewing coffee (and im sure its the same for tea). im a bit of a novice, but i have a decent amount of experience to share involving espresso, cold brew, pour-overs, water hardness and temperature, grind size, bean selection, etc. we can also recommend each other gear. my first post would be talking abt my manual espresso machine that i highly recommend for quality espresso on a budget as im already on the mod team, i could mod this comm, and im sure i could find other users passionate abt coffee or tea to deputize

I want to replace reddit.com/r/modernart with a Lemmy version and I otherwise only have a Lemmy.ml account. I'd prefer to keep the community on Hexbear. There isn't really a community on reddit to migrate and I doubt anyone would join Hexbear for it, I just want to better focus the core idea of it here. Modernism is super relevant to the left, but it isn't well-represented by /c/art or /c/urbanism or /c/literature or /c/music or /c/history since it's a whole-ass thing in itself. I want it to be posts like this where there's a background and discussion for specific 1860s-1960s works/buildings/ideas/movements, how they made the 20th century different from the 19th, and how that informed their/our politics: https://www.reddit.com/r/modernart/comments/tlxspt/ee_cummings_next_to_of_course_god_america_i/

Hear me out, this could be like a sub where we discuss trends and stuff for people who don't understand new trends, kinda like out of the loop for reddit.

copying from my other thread: As leftists, we understand that a lot of individual problems are caused by systemic issues. However, I think that there is still a lot that can be done on the individual level to improve your life. Most online self-improvement spaces have a reactionary slant and are dominated by the same type of guy, which is another great reason to have a self-improvement comm on this website. We can change the name of the comm to something more fitting if you have some suggestions. If somebody wants to mod the comm, please let me know because I think I wouldn't have enough time.

A community where everyone has to communicate exclusively in emojis.    

I think it would be funny 

I think it’s important to reflect on our history and discuss how we can better ourselves. I think in particular the fact that many of you deny the Tiananmen Square massacre, I think it would be beneficial to share the facts and mourn the losses.

For those of us who hate trains, public transportation and renewable energy sources, I think it’s only fair we have our own community to discuss oil prices and other things to do with fossil fuels

(Copy/paste from m*d application thread) I hereby declare an official request for a trueanon community on Hexbear. There’s one on lemmygrad already but it has three subscribers and I became #2 and #3 after I figured out how to join a new instance. I know chapo essentially serves the same purpose, but a TA comm could be used to gather the alarmingly more regular headlines about new “Jeffery Epstein(s) of ____” and our Pepe Silvia-style effort posts. Plus I locked down the username and need to grow the investment

Previously requested three years ago: https://hexbear.net/post/2640 Post tags never came, and we seem to be creating a new comm for everything else so I'd say it's only fair for this to be reconsidered.

having a comm called USA tells them that they're one country among others; not having it (using /c/politics etc.) tells them they're the default, reinforces the mindset that everything is centred on the USA unless otherwise specified

Title. In my experience there is a great deal of overlap between the polyamory community and a lot of our communities, so I'm sure we have at least some Hexbears that are interested. Also in my experience most polyamory communites online are full of cis straight white people trying to find out how they can find a cis queer woman to use as a toy...knowing full well that is NOT what any polyamorous Hexbears would be interested in discussing, I think this community could add a lot of value to the fediverse by being a different voice than the typical heteronormative polaymory communites, and help drive traffic to Hexbear and to the fediverse on the whole among people who are looking for a geninuely safe space to discuss polyamory. There aren't many, at least not that I'm aware of. All of the healthy polyamory communites I know of are offline, it would be nice to try to foster a healthy and safe one online too. I'd be willing to mod it unless someone more experienced would like to volunteer, in which case please volunteer, and maybe teach me the ropes, or just take the project on yourself if you don't think I should be a part of it. Anyway, open to feedback on this, maybe Hexbear is a bad place for it, maybe most Hexbears are monogamous and so nobody really would get value out of it, or maybe lots of people have been wishing we had this.

Please don't make me go to the chess communities on Reddit and main Lemmy.

Requesting c/organise - a place for people to discuss strategies, case studies and methods for socialist organisation in their villages, towns and cities. Looking to figure out how to put your leftist policies into practice in your own specific IRL community? This will be an online space to discuss how to go about it. Want to share how you managed to organise a successful protest? Leftist book club? Fundraiser? Political party? Lobby for political change? Soup kitchen? I would love for you to be able to share your experiences on this community for people around the world to implement it to their own social circles. Looking for ways to disseminate helpful educational information for the general public to be on board with certain policies? My hope for this online community is to also discuss ways to spread this information to people in in-real-life communities in order to spur mobilisation for change. Heard of a successful socialist political party's story and how they managed to influence their own community? This would be a place to share with people willing to hear. I would love to get people together to discuss how to do the aforementioned. I was hoping there could also be a pinned megathread of common Q&As around organising, and we could even come up with a step by step process on what to do for specific methods. Thanks for reading, let me know what you guys think. Also, my apologies if this has alrwady been proposed as an idea lol.

a place to document hate-speech, conspiracy theories, apologia/revisionism, and general tankie behaviour across the fediverse. if you don't know what a Tankie is [you might find this page helpful](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tankie), alternatively, there's this [detailed blog post about Tankies](https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/ziq-tankies-and-the-left-unity-scam) (caution of bias) i think there being another version of the comm would be useful so that lemmy users on instances not federated with shitjustworks (where the original is hosted) will still be made aware of the rising danger of the alt left on lemmy (and maybe even on other social media sites, depending on whether we decide that the comm should branch out at some point from just focusing on lemmy based authoritarian apologists).

We have a c/Sino for China posting. We need a c/Soviet for Soviet Union posting. Art, decor, infrastructure, technology, space race, maps, great patriotic war history, literature... There's a lot to be said. Please make it happen.

I will be a moderator if no one else wants to.

that's it, that's the comm

I don't mind being the mod but if there's some one more qualified I'm happy for someone else to mod too.

I am asking for a community like r/submitted in Reddit

Hello all, I think there is enough interest in theatre to start up a comm about it. See this post for details as to why it's a good idea: https://hexbear.net/post/718079 And there's also little enough interest that I think it wouldn't take a lot of modding. I'd mod, and @climatechangeanxiety said they could be up to mod, but honestly I think modding that sub will be akin to detectives eating donuts on shift for the whole shift. Easy and chill. The only question is: Is it theatre, or theater? In my eyes it's 'Theatre', but I understand if the Americans need to be accommodated with 'Theater'. But then again most AES States probably say 'Theatre'... but then again the reason they say theatre is because the Spaniards and the French forced the word upon them... does it matter which way around we do it?