Having been here a while, I can say that we’ve apparently lost site of the roots of the community that originated on the subreddit, and while I don’t see a way to reverse this decline, I think it’s at least worth talking about.

Essentially the level and tenor of the discourse has altered dramatically; I’ve gone ahead and listed out the type and style of the high quality content we saw back on the day on the upper half of this diagram, and done what I could to contrast it with the sort of typical content and user type we see now. I think any objective observer will agree this is a downgrade.

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Don't try to post on Hexbear.net. That's impossible. Instead try and realize the truth

There Are No Posts.

You'll realize it isn't the text you post

You Only Post Yourself.

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Apologies for posting

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If you stopped posting, you wouldn’t be imminetizing The One

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This objection is child’s play.

This is content. But what sort of content? This is a post. But what is a post? The post is a relation which relates via posting to its own post, or it is that in the relation [which accounts for it] that the relation relates via posting to its own post; the post is not the relation but [consists in the fact] that the relation relates via posting to its own post. This is a synthesis of the infinite and the finite, of the temporal and the eternal, of freedom and necessity, in short it is a synthesis. A synthesis is a relation between two factors. So regarded, this is not yet a post.

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13 points

this is my new favorite comment.

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Nothing in here about train-posting?

Heresy. Burn this thread to the ground.

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If we’re doing gnosticism I’m gonna go take the Cainist position and say we can only be free from posting when we have experienced every possible kind of post in our life

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“My gnosis will not be stopped; you Archons will not be ascendant!” I howl as the mods delete my 15th horny thread on the path to Cainist enlightenment.

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Smh these hylics will never be enlightened

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