I saw a post that talked about racism towards people and when I talked about it the response I got was very heated and a person even called lemmy.world a community of ‘hitlerites’

I have been around for a week or so and this is my first time seeing such explicit vulgar reaction towards another community, is this a one-off or should I block hexbear?

  • prototype_g2
    66·
    4 hours ago

    Why don’t you asked them yourself? !askchapo@hexbear.net

    Probably a bad idea to ask about a Marxist instance on a .world community, since .world is known to be quite biased against Marxism.

    • HelixDab2@lemm.ee
      2·
      2 hours ago

      I’ve frequently noted that you tend to get a very one sided answer when you ask, for instance, Mormons about Mormonism. Likewise, I wouldn’t expect a balanced and fair assessment of hexbear by asking hexbear mods and users.

      • Cowbee [he/they]
        1·
        2 hours ago

        The opposite is true, when you only ask people not federated with Hexbear you get equally imbalanced opinions. OP already did that, may as well ask on Hexbear as well to get the other side of the story.

        • imaqtpie@sh.itjust.works
          1·
          36 minutes ago

          Hexbear removes any questions or opinions they don’t agree with. They heavily censor the discussion and consider it a feature of their community.

          Other Lemmy servers allow a diversity of thought and opinion. They allow people to question and disagree.

          It’s not about sides of the story, it’s the difference between free discussion of individuals versus a standardized party line that cannot be questioned. The former tends to expose the truth, while the latter tends to obfuscate the truth.

          • Cowbee [he/they]
            2·
            30 minutes ago

            Lemmy.world doesn’t allow any opinions from Hexbear, they defederated from them. That is more censorship, though less obvious because you don’t see the comments getting removed. Even then, comments still get removed for going against the “party line” as well, usually comments critiquing the Democrats.

            What’s more correct is that Hexbear is more open and up front with its bias, while instances like Lemmy.world and sh.itjust.works try to pretend that they don’t hold bias.

      • Cowbee [he/they]
        2·
        1 hour ago

        OP has the opinions of the non-Marxists already by asking here, on an instance defederated from most of the Marxists. May as well ask the Marxists what they think too.