Hello users of hexbear:
Due to recent meta posts in our mutual aid community we wanted to open up discussion about the community !mutual_aid@hexbear.net
We will never require explanation or justification from a user asking for aid in the community, and the mod and admin team continue to commit to not featuring an individual’s mutual aid request to prevent unfair exposure.
In addition, we will maintain a strict “No critical comments or meta comments” on a mutual aid post.
This post is to discuss the mutual aid community’s rule of allowing meta posts: mutual aid as a community, those making posts in it and those commenting on posts.
We are considering removing the exception allowing meta posts but wanted to involve the userbase before committing to a change.
Please comment with any thoughts, feelings, or suggestions regarding this change.
Thank you
People who are posting stupid shit in this thread deserve this level of abrasiveness and calling out. I had to disengage last night because there’s an entire 10 replies deep thread complaining about the fact that the online message board gossip they just heard about hasn’t resulted in a homeless person getting banned from one of the only places allowing them to access survival funds. That level of hate is vile. Frankly this site would never allow that kind of dog whistle and concern troll style posting against our GSM and POC comrades and we shouldn’t tolerate it against homeless ones.
Pretending that some kind of rules lawyering and virtue signaling on an online anonymous message board is going to “more efficiently” solve mutual aid problems is equally as stupid as thinking that we’re going to start the next communist revolution or “get Bernie elected”. Grow the fuck up.
We’re ships passing in the night. Some of those ships need money. Other ships want to help. Leave it alone. It’s not the community’s business to get into this drama. It’s the business of the users involved and the mods/admins on how they want to run mutual aid. Making this the communities business is going to be a good way to fuck up a unique and unabashedly good part of the fediverse permanently over some petty Hasan vs Ethan style bullshit. These aren’t podcasters mining drama for clicks, they’re real people.
Exactly. They’re being classist scumbags and if anyone should get banned, it’s them for being reactionaries. We all know the War on Drugs is a sham, yet here these fucks are wanting to wage it against other users over some bullshit.
Honestly disgusted by that thread and the wider chilling effect this already seems to have. I understand people want to feel like they’re doing the most good possible, but that doesn’t give anyone the right to dictate how aid gets spent. These are systemic problems that cannot be fixed by wiring someone cash.