Apply chemical fertilizer, till and disc the winter before.

Start the seeds indoors two or three weeks before the last frost date, move them to bigger containers as required.

Plant in the prepared plot and spread mulch.

Use mesh/stakes as needed to support growth.

Keep the plot weed and pest free.

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We need to move further to the right and get a Cheney endorsement.

I always assumed Hexbear had no desire for growth, if anything it feels uncouth to invite randos to Hexbear for fear of diluting it or libbing it up.

I guess we gotta trust in our mod team

a person I know irl was asking “what app is that” when they saw the hexbear on my phone and I said it’s where the most militantly pro-trans tankie communists post, and they said they’d check it out.

Generally the way a thing grows is by getting visibility elsewhere.

This is achieved in companies by sockpuppet sharing (marketing team intentionally targeting other spaces with re-shares of content), watermarks, advertising, collaborations and generally being edgy enough that people talk about you for the fact your existence is novel.

One of the things this community doesn’t do enough of is talk about or share Hexbear outside of Hexbear, like it’s some secret or too embarrassing to mention.

One thing I see on tiktok that Hexbear isn’t doing is slideshows, there’s easy content to produce like “best of hexbear” which is just reposting a slideshow of 4-5 memes, run by an official hexbear account. Reddit does this. It’s relatively easy to do this two ways, targeting leftist stuff and targeting trans stuff, “sharing hexbear memes” (trans) is easy trans bait.

By continuously purging and fragmenting all the comms until every user has their own

Here’s my idea: provide resources and help that other spaces aren’t providing. The mutual aid comm is a great example of this, but I’ve also been thinking there’s probably a lot more we could provide especially to trans/queer communities. Some folks on the site are already started doing great work in this regard but I think it would be cool and useful to start having for more discussions on DIY help for example, including making and sourcing, though we also want to be careful about this and not get unwanted attention. I’d love to hear feedback on this if anyone has any.

I think the fakenews and badposting sections should be banned. There are a lot of people that browse the site on mobile while not logged in and they get bombarded by badpost after badpost that are the lowest of the low when it comes to effort (e.g. “instead of getting swol why don’t we get swoletariot???”). Even in this thread someone posted “I post my butt and call the website OnlyButts.” Seriously, wtf. If not banned, they should be hidden by default unless explicitly opted into. Just make them NFSW so they don’t show up while browsing while logged out.

Also, the site should try to be more like lemmygrad in terms of being serious about things. There are too many posts that just reek of a weird mix of ironic and non-irony. What I mean is, people will be serious when it’s a topic they personally are invested in, but on other topics, they just resort to childish toilet humor and say that this is nothing more than a shitposting forum. It’s the schrodinger’s hexbear: topic I care about = super serious get all mods on defcom4, topic i don’t care about = dIdN’T yOu KnOw that this isn’t real life, it’s just the internet hurrr durr it’s a shitposting forum. Imagine all the global south comrades looking in on this. It’s just not a good look, and yes what I’m saying is that there should be at least some degree of optics for fuck’s sake.

Another thing, people need to take seriously the other pipelines that draw potential comrades away. One serious one is the joe rogan, lonely male pipeline. They may be alienated by capitalism, but on a personal level they are looking for advice on how to maybe get a date or something. Maybe some actual concrete advice (e.g. start hitting the gym, fix your hair, hygiene, conversational tips, actual dating advice). Like Bell Hooks is all good, but we can’t just tell people “here read this book, even tho most ppl in society don’t really read anymore.” Like some actual decent agitprop that isn’t READING A FUCKING BOOK OVER 100 PAGES FOR FUCKS SAKE. Like a short tiktok, then transition into shorter youtube vids, and then maybe recommending a book. Most ppl here don’t even read communist theory so why such a big ask for potential comrades to do so much investment. I hate to say it, but you gotta use some kind of sales principles like not blasting someone with a huge investment up front without giving anything in return.

Lastly (and there are so many more i’m just tired of typing) the mods shouldn’t poo poo this site as a way to organize. They always respond with “this is just a nondescript hole in the wall lefting shitposting site not a subsitute for real life organizing.” Motherfucker the reason ppl are here is because they are isolated/alienated and maybe lack the social cirlces (or social skills to create one) to do real life organizing work. And patronizing them by saying “join an org” is just that, patronizing. The stupid ass Jan 6 guys met up due to internet shit, so why not have a disciplined “organizing” comm or something?

GOOD posts getting reposted on tiktok, Instagram, Reddit - in that order too, maybe?

Very simple.

A struggling theatre near me has refused to spend money on proper internet advertising. They spend most of it on big posters on the London underground. Well, recently one of the cast members made a concerted effort to post about it on tiktok - behind the scenes post, character profiles, mini interviews.

The theatre just had it’s first completely sold out run in years.

Everything the tiktok algorithm touches turns into gold.

Then again, perhaps the content doesn’t translate well since it’s not video. In which case, Reddit and Instagram posts.

I think 2-3 years ago people were putting Hexbear watermarks on a lot of stuff.

What if instead of a dunk tank, we had a “so close to getting it” section where we stumble over each other to brigade the space in question to agitate left-leaning people?

I got here years ago because someone posted a link on reddit. I think it was on r/trueanon. Are people still doing that?

I feel like posting HB links is most effective during periods of decades happening. People want the posts. But the last thing I’m thinking about when things get wild is “I should post HB links on reddit”.

I do think that while the shit posting part of this site is great, and honestly what drew me in, it’s the effort posts and theory discussion which kept me here. I think this component of this site is lacking promotion. Effort posting gets buried under the nth slop post. It looks like we now have unlimited pinned posts, so maybe pinning a recent effort post for a few days would drive more engagement there and promote that kind of posting more.

I feel like if we did start to market HB or whatever, posting links to effort and theory posts is not a bad idea. While the general vibe here is shitposty (and I think thats generally good because it keeps things casual), there aren’t many places on the internet to have in depth theory discussions. I think part of this is there is a kind of ideological consistency here, even if we don’t always agree, that provides a nice basis on which to have these discussions.

Idk, I like this site. I would be sad to see it die, but I also don’t think it will anytime soon even without much growth.

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I mean just spread the link around. Go into other communities and tell them about here.

It’ll be very incestuous though since there’s no “One Big Leftist Forum” to leech off of all we’d be doing is getting people off other niche communities. Which is fine but it’s not all that significant one way or the other.

I’m gonna write to Soros to increase our funding. Maybe we can buy some billboards in Ohio.