If you’re a rabid right winger like most redditors anyone with half a brain will seem crazy.
Comment on Is it me or is everyone in hexbear insane?
hark@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Do you have any examples of this? Since world is defederated from that instance, I only end up visiting it when people like you come in and talk about how absolutely crazy it is over there, so occasionally I’ll take a curious peek. This time I see… a post about Indigenous rights, a post criticizing capitalism, a post dunking on musk, a post about FOSS… when do I start seeing the crazy?
Pollux@leminal.space 1 week ago
Kolanaki@yiffit.net 1 week ago
Read the comments.
hark@lemmy.world 1 week ago
I did, and still didn’t see the crazy. In fact, all it did was make me wonder why an instance with such little activity gets talked about so much.
EABOD25@lemm.ee 1 week ago
I don’t because I blocked the instance. I’d recommend if you’re curious, just take a look at it. I’m probably being more dramatic than necessary, and I know there are some good instances there. Just be careful
foxontherocks@lemmy.world 1 week ago
That is what they hate.
Cryophilia@lemmy.world 1 week ago
They very quickly ban people who disagree with their propaganda. So just browsing, it looks like left leaning but generally sane people.
Go on there and say anything negative at all about China. You’ll see the crazy.
echolalia@lemmy.ml 1 week ago
Have you considered you are just observing this:
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Hexbear is for communists to talk to communists. They get plenty of the “default” liberal opinions from waves hands around vaguely and are entitled to their own community, no?.
Obviously if you go into Hexbear and just start posting anti-China stuff they’re going to ban you. It’s not like the English-speaking world is bereft of anti-China news articles.
PersnickityPenguin@lemm.ee 1 week ago
This isn’t accurate, they were very active in brigandine other federations, hitting random threads on .world for instance with hundreds of reply comments drowning out anything that may be a tiny bit critical of china or Russia. Or pro west.
There wereultiple cross-posts daily pointing to specific threads posted on hexbear to organize brigading.
bdonvr@thelemmy.club 1 week ago
Dang that’s pretty impressive for an instance that got blocked by . world before they ever started defeating.
Or did I already miss make stuff up o’clock?
Diva@lemmy.ml 1 week ago
.world preemptively defederated from hexbear “as a last resort” can you clarify when the events your referring to would have happened?
carl_marks_1312@lemmy.ml 1 week ago
Have you considered that their users were just browsing the front page and what you’re describing is just the nature of lemmy and how federation works?
You’re likely referring to the_dunk_tank which is a community that encourages bullying homophobia, transphobia, fascists and liberale (pretty based imo)
echolalia@lemmy.ml 1 week ago
Yeah, I do remember that. That’s why I’m not signed up there. They weren’t changing anyone’s minds with their shitstirring and were doing it for their own enjoyment (which is damaging to all communities, even nonpolitical ones, if people avoid your platform due to trolling).
That said, it was a past problem, and posters on lemmy.world are still out there complaining about Hexbear like they’re relevant. I’m speaking about the current situation.
I’m not advocating for them to re-federate with lemmy.world (I have no dog in the race, anyway, being a part of neither instance) but I do remember watching the Hexbear mods/admins shutting down the actual brigading of threads before lemmy.world de-federated. Not sure it was a solvable problem, anyway, Hexbear is rather antagonistic in ways I don’t agree with.
Cryophilia@lemmy.world 1 week ago
I’m not trying to join their cult. I’m not feeling excluded from their cult. I’m saying their cult should not exist. It is a mixture of crazy people and Chinese propaganda, and it deserves to be stamped out.
echolalia@lemmy.ml 1 week ago
Ah yea, everyone that has an opinion that isn’t mine is dangerous and deserves to be silenced. I totally agree. I think lemmy.world should refederate, and then defederate a second time, just to make sure they get the message.
SSJMarx@lemm.ee 1 week ago
The Falun Gong are, right now, kidnapping children and brainwashing them into being performers for their shitty dance troupe. These performers are not paid, cannot leave The Compound, and cannot contact their family. That’s a cult that the government should stamp out.
Hexbear is a bunch of people with a different opinion on the western world’s designated Enemy Governments. They’re not in the same ballpark, or even playing the same sport.
hark@lemmy.world 1 week ago
I might not agree with the moderation practices or even their opinions, but that doesn’t make them crazy.
Cryophilia@lemmy.world 1 week ago
You got cause and effect mixed up.
We disagree with them because they are crazy.
TheOubliette@lemmy.ml 1 week ago
lemmy.world users don’t interact with hexbeqr users because your admin preemptively defederated from hexbear “as a last resort”. At no point were the two federated. I don’t know about crazy, but that seems inconsistent. Don’t you agree?
TraitorToAmerica@lemmy.ml 1 week ago
do you have an argument that doesn’t rely on ableism?