That is rad af. I have been fascinated by these ever since I got into evolutionary biology in college like 20 years ago. Super cool to finally see one in it’s natural habitat.

Easy counter: until the 50s pink was for boys and blue was for girls in the US

I forget which first lady that campaigned to make the switch because she just really liked pink.

Yeah same I am about 40 years old and the closest I come to MMOs anymore is running tank crews in Foxhole

God I would love to play WoW again on like a WotLK private server.

“boo hoo people shit on me for being reactionary”

That is all I get from this comment without further elaboration.

No it is a consequence of their moderators tolerating that shit.

.world is full of fascists and bigots just as bad as reddit is.

We do all that too, we’re just cooler. We have DIY comms, anime comms, I run the gaming discord where we mostly just chill and play Foxhole ARMA and project zomboid.

My point is that everything is political and for people that want a nice cozy space that is vigilantly purged of reactionaries and bigots it’s a breath of fresh air from the reddit environment that carries over to a lot of the big “default” - as you call them - instances.

Shit half the posts on hexbear are silly jokes, weird special interest stuff, personal projects, or random bean posting. We are just very very militant and fairly unified when topics of politics come up and it has roots in irreverent commie shitposting so that will always be there.

hex - defederated from most of the mainstream fediverse.

This is exactly why you should tell people leaving reddit to check it out.