Comment on Absolutely nothing happened June 1989

• OpenStars@discuss.online ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  They have alts on lemmy.ml.

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  • barsquid@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    The flood has started below. And indeed it is a bunch of @lemmy.ml, surprising nobody.

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    • OpenStars@discuss.online ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      There was one when I looked before. Oh wow there’s… more than one now. 😵‍💫

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  • nickwitha_k@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Then that would be .ml users. Semantics yes, but considering that .world never federated with Hexbear, I feel it relevant for accurately describing things.

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    • OpenStars@discuss.online ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      hexbear.net is known for discussion of what goes on in the rest of the Fediverse (I went and found a recent example to show you: hexbear.net/post/3645205). Whereupin people with accounts that are able to often brigade places that if we take the narrowest view of who “hexbear” users are, they would not have access to. It just goes with the territory of (a) being passionate about a subject, along with (b) caring not in the slightest bit about the consent of the recipients.

      I myself have multiple alts, and went to some trouble to ensure that it is barely recognizable which I am using (identical name and icon). I started on Kbin, and before it went defunct it got slower and slower so I switched to StarTrek, but it got slow for a bit too so now I made my final home on Discuss.Online. And when possible I will love to try out Sublinks, and probably I’ll try Piefed too then.

      If someone switches from their hexbear.net account, where they heard about this post, to their Lemmy.ml one for the express purpose to downvoting and trolling this post with their “commentary”, I would call those hexbear users. If you read hexbear posts, it won’t be all that long before you find people not only admitting but being outright proud of doing precisely that. Here’s a very tame one to get you started: hexbear.net/post/272530, here’s another: hexbear.net/post/277508, and another: hexbear.net/post/280770, and there are links from there and available by searching.

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      • Snowpix@lemmy.ca ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        They even explicitly stated in one of their old federation threads that their sole purpose in federating with other instances is to “dunk” on anyone they disagree with and send brigades. This has been a longstanding problem with them, nothing they do outside of their instance is in good faith.

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      • nickwitha_k@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        That’s a fair way to look at it, yeah. I blocked the instance a whole back after being the target of the dunking culture and classification of statements like “peoples historically oppressed by a country can be reasonably expected to turn to terrible geopolitical powers, if faced with existential threat from said historical oppressors without other recourse” labeled as “fascist apologia” (referring to the USSR’s invasion of Finland, a country that was occupied and used as a battleground and colony by Sweden or Russia for centuries, leaving them with few options but the nazis to try to maintain a semblance of independence that they had previously won from the Russian Empire). If one can’t examine the mistakes of the past, they aren’t serious about trying to avoid them in the future and I ain’t got time for that shit.

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  • lol_idk@lemmy.ml ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I was duped into believing .ml was a tech oriented instance when I joined Lemmy.

    Where should I go instead? I don’t really care about my local instance, I usually browse All

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• abbadon420@lemm.ee ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  The spirit of hexbear will flood this post if they find it

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