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

  • Pandantic [they/them]@midwest.socialEnglish
    316·
    4 months ago

    Thank you for saying this in a more detailed way than I have been. This is exactly right. They built their own leftist haven and became a whole culture of their own, and then became federated. There is bound to be an initial clash, but honestly I think most of the people who hate on them never gave them a chance. All they saw were the shitposts and the in-jokes and you closed the door.

    When it comes to dealing with HB users here, my advice is the exact same as dealing with other users

    • if you don’t like what someone is saying (because it’s idiotic, obstrusive, or whatever), block the person for some peace of mind.

    • if you’re consistently uninterested on the content coming from an instance, block the instance.

    I see a lot of leftists (and leaning leftists), even on .world, who would be better off interacting with the users there (maybe blocking the shitposting comms). And outside of those most-seen comms (chapotraphouse and dunk_tank), there is genuine conversation and less shit talking and in-jokes. I believe, with more instances coming in that are federated with them (mine, .ml, and lem.ee? are a couple), some of the Hex-natives are understanding how to interact with curious left-leaning people with unintentionally wrong-headed ideas.

    Downvote me all you want, I stand by Hexbear. o7

    • expr@programming.dev
      75·
      4 months ago

      Answer me this: are they or are they not consistently in support of Russia/China? Because I’ve seen it a lot from them (and blocked the instance soon after joining Lemmy when I noticed the pattern).

      Is it just some big joke that went over my head?

      • Pandantic [they/them]@midwest.socialEnglish
        41·
        4 months ago

        That is one of the few instances my instance is defederated from, so I haven’t had much interaction with them. I can speak about Hexbear because I see their posts and interact with them.

        • Cowbee [he/they]
          71·
          4 months ago

          Lemmygrad.ml is a “serious” community of Marxist-Leninists, and are Dengists as well (or at least largely sympathetic towards Deng).

          Hexbear is Left-Unity, and more of a community focused instance.

          The views are largely similar, but the tone and goals of each instance are different.