Hello users of Hexbear, we are excited to start our next volunteer drive!
I want to take this opportunity to reiterate that Hexbear strives to be a community oriented platform, to achieve this we seek to enable & feature user organized efforts such as the book club, cytube, bulletins, etc. In addition, we center the Community Moderator role. The Sitemod/Admin team gets involved after a moderator or moderators have decided to escalate to a site wide action.
We encourage interested users to apply as a community moderator for any community they are interested in. High activity communities like this are always in need of more mods:
Active Communities
!chapotraphouse@hexbear.net !the_dunk_tank@hexbear.net !memes@hexbear.net !videos@hexbear.net !news@hexbear.net !music@hexbear.net !games@hexbear.net !politics@hexbear.net !movies@hexbear.net !history@hexbear.net !askchapo@hexbear.net !guns@hexbear.net !chat@hexbear.net !technology@hexbear.net !urbanism@hexbear.net !art@hexbear.net !podcasts@hexbear.net !food@hexbear.net !anime@hexbear.net !literature@hexbear.net !science@hexbear.net !covid@hexbear.net !earth@hexbear.net !doomer@hexbear.net !latam@hexbear.net !europe@hexbear.net !transenby_liberation@hexbear.net !labour@hexbear.net !literature@hexbear.net !philosophy@hexbear.net !canada@hexbear.net !ttrpg@hexbear.net
We have made some amazing progress on our re-fork and have sustained development, but we always need more!
Anyone interested in helping with Hexbear Development We previously mentioned here our current Dev Volunteer Focus is to fork Lemmy again, this time deliberately not diverging too far from upstream so it's easier to maintain the patches and apply them on top of each new Lemmy release.
This is a large undertaking. There is no timeline, but we expect it to be a while before the site is migrated over to the finished fork.
We're still in the early stages, but the more people involved the sooner we can progress. Primarily, we need developers (Rust & TypeScript) and ops/infrastructure people. Please reach out to Ella via Matrix or me via Matrix If you're interested in helping out. If you need help setting it up, let me know.
For more information contributing to the dev side of Hexbear please refer to this post
Anyone interested in helping with Hexbear Bulletins please visit: https://git.chapo.chat/hexbear-collective/bulletins/src/branch/main/CONTRIBUTING.md
Or reach out to me, or SeventyTwoTrillion
Anyone interested in helping with Hexbaer Cytube please reach out to me, itsPina, Mabbz, or Zoift.
Anyone that wants to create a new community briefly describe what it would be in a comment, in addition to sending in a mod application
To send in an application
Create an Element account and send the following application via Matrix
The answers will be reviewed by the admin team, and applications will not be copied into unencrypted communication without your permission.
Application
What is your Hexbear username?
Do you have any preferred pronouns?
What are your thoughts on capitalism?
What are your thoughts on imperialism?
What are your thoughts on trans rights?
What are your thoughts on Black Lives Matter and the recent protests?
What do those protests tell you?
What are your thoughts on Veganism and Animal Liberation?
Do you have any experience with other leftist online communities? What did those experiences teach you?
What is your approach to moderation and how do you work with teams?
Do you have an account with Reddit, Discord, or Twitter? If so, may we review them?
How do you deal with online drama and people who try to start things for the sake of it?
What current comms would you be interested in moderating? Do you have any ideas for community engagement?
What is your general time availability? (Time zone, amounts, common browsing times, etc)
Element information
Element is a messaging app that lets you talk to people over the Matrix protocol.
To get started, check out this link, where you can choose to either download Element for your platform or, if on a computer, open it in a browser ("Launch Element Web").
The instructions that follow are for the desktop application and the web application, but the process is similar on all apps:
- Press "Create Account"
- We host our own Matrix server, so if you want you can change
matrixtochapo.chat. This is completely optional; users who sign up with amatrixusername can still talk to people withchapo.chatusername. (Note: It ischapo.chat, nothexbear.net. Also, registrations aren't always open onchapo.chat; if they're not, just create an account onmatrix) - Fill in a username and password
- Hit register, and you're done!
Please reach out to me via Element, Hexbear DM or a comment here if you are interested in volunteering
Only 2 features left for upstreaming, as far as I know, and i have a PR for one, and a branch for another :)
I wish I knew how to code.
Do you think I could learn enough to be able to contribute? How should I go about doing that?
Realistically it's a journey, and depending on if you have prior experience or not, that will determine how long it will be before you will be able to contribute.
If you have no experience, it is going to be a challenge to get up and running in a couple months. You are going to be starting from step 0, while the code that runs Hexbear is built upon an entire 40 years worth of computing history and concepts that you will need to read about first.
My suggestion would be to keep your expectations realistic, and start with some basic material.
This site is built using Rust and Typescript/JavaScript. You can find lots of introductory material for both. I think probably learning JavaScript to start is a decent way to get started.
I develop primary in Python, so I also feel obligated to recommend learning python.
Rust seems to have a steep learning curve, and probably not beginner friendly, but I could be wrong.
Good luck. I can always offer more help via the Element chat
has anyone thought making a wikipedia type thing? Separate from the lemmy project.
Separate from the lemmy project.
why tho :kitty-cri-potato:
I want to be able to read articles written more than 2 months ago.
Music and memes are generally pretty quiet, I can put one more comm under my belt if it helps out! Chapo or dunk tank? Those seem to always be in need of hands.
ironically it looks like there's some kind of bug that's replacing comm names with
vector://vector/c/instead ofhttps://hexbear.net/c/, although I can't reproduce it on my end
