hex and grad are both very argumentative

i mean we are communists...honestly if you think we're bad towards y'all you should see some of our more heated discussions amongst ourselves; the only people leftists are more vicious towards than fascists and their enablers are leftists who very slightly disagree with them lol.

don't usually see you guys participating in other non-political communities

possibly that's because we have comms for a lot of those things (sports, games, movies, anime, etc) and tend to use those instead but that's just a guess. i won't speak for anyone else but i find a lot of the memes and stuff on lemmy are a little reddit-flavored for me so i don't usually engage (since i don't want to just go in and shit on people having a harmless good time or w/e)

Not to overwhelm you with comments, but most Hexbear and Grad users tend to stay on Hex and Grad for non-political content, funny enough. Check out Hex's general megathreads, or the gaming comm, etc.

As someone who made a Hexbear alt (not the other way around), it's a far more pleasant space to relax, IMO. Plus, Communists tend to all be political nerds to begin with.