Has anyone else noticed how prevalent Hexbear posters have suddenly become? Maybe sometime last week I noticed nearly every political post had at least one long thread of Hexbear users that do nothing but repeat CCP talking points while waving anyway anything even remotely reliable as Western propaganda. That or getting all excited about trolled libs. The way they tell it, you’d think everything from DW, to Fox, to Propublica, to straight up AP News articles, are all written by the same people.
Not to mention, their info on the Fediverse observer is either straight up wrong or there’s some serious botting going on. According to that, the instance is less than a month old, yet somehow they already have one of the largest, most active userbases, along with far and away the most comments of any instance.
Seems to me like Lemmygrad on steroids. Considering we defederated from them, seems like a no-brainer to block Hexbear as well.
So glad this thread could become such a perfect microcosm of why we need to defederate.
Lmao new site tagline dropped
10 upvotes in 10 mins have to be botted or something, this whole instance is sus
We’re just terminally online and upvote each other
Though I’ll admit those stats here are a bit suspicious
maybe we’re just better at posting than you
We have a community that has been together for years. We actually care about each other, We love supporting each other whenever possible and We are a real community.
None of the shitlib
wannabe instances will ever understand.
Sucks to suck.
Yeah ngl the whole “we” thing is weird to me. I have never cared about any internet community lol.
This is literally a thread addressing our specific community. What are we supposed to do, refuse to reference that community?
Like I said you would not understand.
I told you all that so you all quit accusing us of post/stat manipulation.
Was there a big migration push recently? I don’t think it’s manip anymore, there’s clear organic traffic here that’s linking me pig shit.
We recently federated with the broader lemmyverse Idk what its called, I’ve just been posting here for 3 years using the same link on my bookmark, and when I clicked it today here I am replying to you
when does the war on lemmygrad begin
Why would we go to war against lemmygrad?
lemmygrad are our comrades
we personally prefer to keep a pan-leftist policy but an enemy of the bourgeoise is a comrade of ours
Why would you make a post about hexbear when you clearly don’t know the first thing about us? We are one of the oldest and most active lemmys and our whole bit is left unity…
>User tried to use Start Shit!
>It wasn’t very effective…
I’ve gotta respect the riffs, at least
Did you just call me a manip?
That’s just a pokemon
yes, everyone is so alienated and atomized, broken down into monads so that no community can exist, because communities existing means they will collectively organize to defend themselves. they don’t want you to have a community, because then you’d be harder to exploit
are u trying to unionize internet communties
not really, I don’t think internet communities are “means of production”. I would like to dispel false consciousness, highlight class collaboration, and foster class consciousness
Is there a bot to explain your 0 upvotes?
Do upvotes matter to you lol
-person who just complained about other people getting upvotes
That absolutely was not what my comment was about. Is your entire instance this toxic as this thread?
I’ve actually never felt unwelcome or not wanted in hexbear. Probably because I engage in posts there in good faith and disagree politely.
this is a thread complaining about us, of course we’re not gonna be particularly nice
The defederation PR merge cannot come soon enough
This is truly the death of the marketplace of ideas
Afraid to debate us in the marketplace of ideas
Now said it without crying, lib.
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You: “another more active community than mine exists? No it can’t be, that’s impossible! It must be some trick, or foul magic!”
Us: