malicious hexbears are taking advantage of people’s trauma to turn them against the west folks (and judging by the recent survey, turning them trans too? )
https://lemmy.world/comment/12777548 link cuz im not a lib
the comment in the screeshot is responding to @blakeus12@hexbear.net’s wholesome introduction post here: https://hexbear.net/post/3631051
I made a TLDR here: https://hexbear.net/comment/5484512
they are now, there was a lemmy update sometime in the last year that added upvotes and downvotes to the active user count. unless you meant people without an account, but it also doesnt count everyone who browses through hexbear threads on other instance accounts either.