I think a little clarification is needed. No. I don’t actually think everyone there is insane. I don’t care about the bans so stop trying to use that. HB enthusiasts coming here and trying to call me out achieves nothing besides proving my point

Edit: Feel free to keep trying to brigade me. It’s not going to scare me to take this down

  • Cryophilia@lemmy.world
    3129·
    2 months 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
      3511·
      2 months ago

      Have you considered you are just observing this:

      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
        1519·
        2 months 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
          177·
          2 months ago

          hitting random threads on .world

          Dang that’s pretty impressive for an instance that got blocked by .world before they ever started federating.

          Or did I already miss make stuff up o’clock?

        • carl_marks[use name]
          155·
          2 months 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.

          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?

          There wereultiple cross-posts daily pointing to specific threads posted on hexbear to organize brigading.

          You’re likely referring to the_dunk_tank which is a community that encourages bullying homophobia, transphobia, fascists and liberale (pretty based imo)

        • Diva (she/her)
          156·
          2 months ago

          hitting random threads on .world for instance with hundreds of reply comments

          .world preemptively defederated from hexbear “as a last resort” can you clarify when the events you’re referring to would have happened?

        • echolalia
          17·
          2 months ago

          There wereultiple cross-posts daily pointing to specific threads posted on hexbear to organize brigading.

          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
        1233·
        2 months 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
          2411·
          2 months 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.

          • Cryophilia@lemmy.world
            1017·
            2 months ago

            Not everyone who disagrees with me. Just extremists and morons. Tankies happen to be both.

            REAL communists are cool. Hexbear is a pile of shit.

            • Soggy@lemmy.worldEnglish
              165·
              2 months ago

              Are the real communists kept around back with the real scotsmen?

              • Cryophilia@lemmy.world
                712·
                2 months ago

                Real communists keep quiet around hexbear because they don’t associate with those idiots.

            • Cowbee [he/him]
              108·
              2 months ago

              What do you consider a real Communist, if not people who read Communist Theory, advocate for Communism, and defend real movements towards Communism?

    • hark@lemmy.world
      2313·
      2 months ago

      I might not agree with the moderation practices or even their opinions, but that doesn’t make them crazy.

        • TheOubliette
          229·
          2 months 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?