We’re one of the oldest and by far most established and active community on the lemmyverse. Our instance was forked for a long time because of some backend issues with how our admins wanted pronouns to work on our usernames for example. Just last week we finished updating the site such that we’re compatible again and merged. OP is big mad that we’re very populated and active so it feels like we’re ‘brigading’ when a thread gets popular. It could also be that we’re militantly pro-lgbt (if the pronouns didn’t tip you off) and ideologically leftist (usually marxist-lenninists but we have a fair number of anarchist comrades as well).
We’re kind of having a laugh at all these people who joined 1-2 months ago from reddit having culture shock at the new site and demand the furniture be arranged to their taste. It could also be as one of us mentioned on a separate thread that OP was doing some casual homophobia and boy do we like bullying people like them. If you sort your lemmy feed by all and sort by active, you’ll see posts with hundreds of comments where we’re arguing about bigotry like that, disinformation, western chauvinism, ect.
The community was originally on Reddit as /r/chapotraphouse until we along with most other explicitly leftist subs were banned. We’ve been here for three years ever since. hexbear-logo
wesker@lemmy.sdf.org 10 months ago
They’re absolutely harmless, and I don’tunderstanfd the recent hubbub. Their culture is a bit strange, but they mostly seem to just want to shitpost about politics in peace. They won’t bother you unless you say “defederate hexbear” 3 times in a mirror, and then they swarm, I think just wanting hugs or something.
SootySootySoot@hexbear.net 10 months ago
I for one would absolutely like some hugs instead meow-hug
MF_COOM@hexbear.net 10 months ago
Who tf doesn’t want hugs?
QuinceDaPence@kbin.social 10 months ago
All I see from there is random word spam that all have a link to stupid images from there.
That's why I want it de-federated.
wesker@lemmy.sdf.org 10 months ago
Just because they speak a different language, doesn’t to me feel like a reason to defederate. They also seem to be fairly self-policing.
For instance they like to perform what they call “dunking” which I believe originates from a collective idolization of Michael Jordan.
However, they keep posting reminders to one another to not bring the “pig poop balls” to other instances, as to not offend outsiders. They use the acronym PPB, and I think it has something to do with a lack of fecal hygiene being a large spreader of disease.
acastcandream@beehaw.org 10 months ago