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.
Yeah that makes sense and is like the first comment that isn’t super aggro
I mean, you did add the edit
before most of the responses, so I don’t see why you would expect people not to be aggressive. You also accused the site of botting because it’s more active than yours (“10 upvotes in 10 minutes” lol)
Well, its the first time I’ve had this interaction on lemmy today, when I get to the 5th time in a few hours I have to explain this I may be slightly more annoyed and a bit more aggro haha
Sorry you’ve been a bit burned, we can get intense sometimes, but we mean well at the end of the day.
The key is to ask questions, if you have any you want to ask, in good faith. “Can you tell me about X?” and then go from there, people make a lot of assumptions about what we believe and why, because a lot of why they don’t believe it themselves is because theyve been lied to. So don’t assume, ask, I promise you people won’t be shy they will happily tell you way more than you could ever want to know about it
I’m sayin that from first hand experience because I used to be a communist hating austerity loving homeless hating liberal pos, I was probably a lot worse than most of the libs people are mad at in this thread, but threads like this are also what helped me find my way this way so, hey, circle of life
I promise most of us are nice people and fairly easy to get along with. We’re just very… tired of certain narratives and ideas and dont have much patience for them. I honestly think some of my comrades can do a bit better at remembering the human here, but its also understandable why they dont have patience for certain things.
So I initially was super off put by hexbear when it started showing up. But reading through this thread, and your comments, I feel differently.
My main thing is the “own the libs” type narrative because I considered myself a liberal. I didn’t want to feel attacked while trying to expand my view. But reading through these I think that’s because Ive always defined myself as a “liberal” but I think I just conflated that word with “left”
Based off a lot of what I read here, I actually am considering joining the instance because I do agree with the sentiments and I do want to educate myself beyond what I’ve been taught in the very flawed US public school system and the headlines I’m fed daily.
Thanks for your responses.
Also, can you explain pbb to me because people were talking about the nuance of it but it just looks like some shitty pig balls to me.