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.
I never said anything was mine. However the circlejerk shit should not be allowed to infest every discussion. It’s obnoxious. That’s my opinion.
Edit - there’s literally multiple threads on the front page of hexbear about “dunking on libs”
Hey, yaknow what, I think we’re going a little hard on it too actually. Not necessarily with volume of posts. I think anyone can post as much as they want, there just happen to be a lot of us, we’re opinionated, and we were just let out of our cage, and some topics that we happen to have strong opinions on happened to be posted just in time for that, AND then someone posts something like this where they literally ask who we are and what we are doing. I think at the very least you can agree we have a right to respond to this right?
But with some of the aggression and things like pig poop balls. Yeah, I think we’ve probably gone a bit hard on it and I try to engage with a little more good faith.
But I’m still wondering where we stated this “Goal” you said we stated.
These meta posts I personally don’t give a fuck. Stretch your legs, grab a drink, whatever. It’s every worldnews thread since federation which has been filled with literal pig shit, which apparently counts as “alternative opinions” or whatever helps you sleep.
The stated goal please.
What threads? I’m looking at the Hexbear front page right now and the only thing I see is a user suggesting we don’t use PPB outside of Hexbear. Not a single post about lib-dunking.