Font Awesome is a font that uses codepoints in the “Private Use Area” for icons. (The Private Use Area is a chunk of Unicode specifically set aside for any font to put any image they want in there, instead of expecting a certain codepoint to display as a specific letter.)

To the OP: I don’t know much about this, but if you use a different app, does Arch’s Font Awesome show as the colored or B&W version? You might have to try a wide variety of apps due to competing color font standards.

The real thing wrong with Hexbear is that their favorite sports are brigading, trolling, and namecalling. As you’d expect from that list they are also pro-authoritarian.

Nah, I meant to say heterosexual and had a brain fart. Basically, someone who came out of the birth canal with a low score in the Oppression Olympics.

Well, here are a few that are controversial with the extreme left:

1. Freedom of speech and freedom of religion are good things. While I can’t ask the state to let itself be overthrown by ignoring ideological/religious/personality-cult calls to revolt, I don’t want a narrowly defined state ideology used as a tool of court politics like Iran or the USSR.

2. When collective rights conflict with individual rights, I’m mostly in favor of individual rights. If a local group pops up that takes a married woman’s property and gives it to her husband, bans divorce, and lets husbands beat their wives, I want my government to use laws mandating equality against them instead of give them communal autonomy. I don’t care what color their skin is or what language they speak.

3. There is no good reason to believe that true communism will ever work for a group bigger than 10,000 people. I’m being generous because I’m not certain it has worked for 3,000. Also, true communism will be very hard to sustain in a commune that reproduces itself by birth to current members if the children have anywhere else to go. Communes that reproduce by attracting new members instead of by birth to current members, a.k.a. monasteries, can sustain communism indefinitely. (Buddhist monasteries have had very large populations, but it’s rarely clear at a glance whether the monastery feeds the monks or if they have to work for their own food.)

4. The more a group trumpets “diversity” and “tolerance”, the less tolerance they have for diversity of thought and view. They’re overjoyed to recruit any color or shape of body so long as the mind inside toes the party line.

5. Anarchy (actual lack of a state) is the best friend patriarchy could want. A band of brothers makes a powerful coalition to rob and kill others, or on the flipside to protect their blood relatives. That puts a lot of power into the hands of grandfathers who have a posse of grandsons to fight for the family and can refuse to defend you if you don’t obey.

6. Communist rule has been excellent for education, basic health care, and redistributing the wealth present when the Communists were elected. But it’s been poor for increasing wealth.

You used “we”. Who is “we”? The rest of the discussion implies that “we” means “we Hexbear users”.

So here’s a better question: how can a White, cisgender, cissexual hererosexual man politically to the right of Bernie Sanders disagree with you without being a bigot or a fascist?

I read “We hate anyone who doesn’t agree with us.”

Said out loud: “We hate bigots and fascists.”
Unsaid but implied in many interactions: “Anyone who doesn’t agree with us is a bigot or a fascist.”
Combine: “We hate bigots and fascists, by which we mean anyone who doesn’t agree with us.”
Simplify: “We hate anyone who doesn’t agree with us.”

I’ll quote myself covering the important parts, skip the metaphor, and try to explain in simple English.

Most Hexbears act like spewing insults, trolling, and supporting murderous dictators are blows for righteousness. Until Hexbear culture quits sanctifying insults and trolling, a lot of doors are going to be slammed in your faces.

We hate you because of how you talk. The “call-outs” which are just an excuse to call people names. The posing. The rude pictures. The trolling. The brigading. Reply to any of it and get another avalanche of name-calling and trolling.

A lot of us also hate what you say. But many of us could tolerate what you say if you said it nicely. What’s the point of tolerance if you don’t tolerate a few things you hate?

You are a type of troll that is very hard to talk into not trolling. And nobody will put up with your trolling for long if they can ban you. So, expect a lot of bans because you are trolls.

If you argued for Marxism but didn’t troll and call people names, you would be banned less.

Aye

Check back when we can whitelist individual members who have proven their ability to post in good faith on other instances. Or in ten years to see if Hexbear’s culture isn’t toxic anymore.

Sure. KiaKaha wrote the whole post to argue that keeping the Uyghur nation in prison camps and banning their culture was the humane solution to keeping the Tarim Basin, conquered 250 years ago by the Manchus in a war against the Dzungar Mongols, from rebelling against the heirs of the heirs of the Manchus.

Not sure if you missed my point or you’re just trolling.

I know it’s rude to bring up a post from three years ago, but here you go. To Hexbear’s collective credit, I couldn’t quickly find someone on there supporting the Khmer Rouge.

Anyhow, the real problem is Hexbears’ behavior. So many Hexbears spilled into our instance – this is not your instance, it’s our instance – posting disgusting images and oversized emotes, screaming insults at anyone who doesn’t toe their party line (“call outs”), and trolling left, right and center. And I don’t think this is the first time, either. There is no reason to believe that the majority of visiting Hexbears are willing to make constructive posts, and that’s cause for defederation…

Maybe I wasn’t here yet, but I don’t remember exploding-heads users coming by the dozen to insult and taunt us on posts on our own instance. That’s the behavior that has people up in arms about Hexbear. If instead they just made the occasional post in support of genocide to “own” the USA, I think there would be a lot less support for defederation.

The more I look the more I see a severe clash of values between Hexbear and SIJW (and most Lemmy instances). Most Hexbears act like spewing insults, trolling, and supporting murderous dictators are blows for righteousness. On the other side, those Hexbears come off as juvenile delinquents wearing Red Guard armbands as they spray graffiti, break windows, and take offense at being told off.

Until Hexbear culture quits sanctifying insults and trolling, a lot of doors are going to be slammed in your faces.

Let’s tally up the replies to me from Hexbear users.

• One insult.
• One taunt.
• One helpful reply with a little pushback (which might be deserved).
• One reply expressing frustration with how Hexbear users are treated collectively.
• One troll.

So a minority of Hexbear users interacted reasonably, while the majority of Hexbear users did not.

I know you personally can’t do much about your instance’s users making a majority of posts in bad faith, but Hexbear as an instance has a bad reputation across the Fediverse right now because of their behavior.

Thank you for being genuinely helpful, unlike your comrades who insulted and posed.

Looking at their collective behavior in https://sh.itjust.works/post/4188546 I’m for defederating. The sheer enthusiasm for brigading and spewing insults shown there makes me think the instance should be blocked except for a whitelist (or, to be politically correct, allowlist) of permitted users who have shown the ability to contribute more than insults.

Edit: https://sh.itjust.works/post/4245984 as well, where a Hexbear calls an image mocking Xi Jinping personally “racist”.

we’re centrists. we hold the political center between anarchism and Marxism-Leninism.

Is that an inside joke? Because outside of Hexbear and maybe 1930s Catalonia, “between anarchism and Leninism” is extreme left.

They’re named after planets, in the ancient sense of “lights in the sky that don’t stand still”.

• Sunday
• Moonday
• Marsday
• Mercuryday
• Jupiterday
• Venusday
• Saturnday

The pixel remaster attempts to do for FF2 what its GBA grandfather did for FF1: force a weird old game into later series mechanics, balance and challenge be damned. It went even worse than you’d expect due to a weaker understanding of FF2’s mechanics. It is easier in more respects than not, though, and it got rid of the special monster closet encounter rate.

I like 2 better than 1 because it has a better villain, better side characters, and a wild streak. 1 and 3 are boring by comparison.