3mo ago

They have started federating again, lord help us.

edit: muting this thread, goodbye.

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Finally! This place just isn't the same without pics of pigs shitting on their own balls.
- I tried to get AI to generate it for me but it's just not the same.

I just blocked the whole instance as soon as the option was implemented. There were few good posts/comunities from it, but overall better to block it whole.
- Somehow I can't block it using Voyager, the only instance appearing is test.hexbear.net. Any idea why?
  
  SJW blocks them already.
  
  I'm actually getting pissed, I have hexbear.net and test.hexbear.net both instance blocked in Voyager but can still see these cretins comments. I could tag them all but that would take forever.
  Edit: Fuck it, just blocking them when I see them.
- Do be aware of the limitations of user blocking though.

Don't have a problem with what instance you're on as long as you're respectful I'll be respectful back
- I totally agree. But that instance is slightly notorious for brigading threads.
  
  They got like 6 people in here doing just that.
- [Account 21 days old]
  Oh, my sweet summer child.

Move to an instance that defederates then, and move on? I'm not the biggest fan by any mean, but this kind of posts is just calling for some instance slapstick fights in the comments
For a list:
https://lemmy.ca/ for a North American instance
https://sopuli.xyz/ for a European one
- I get what you're saying, but this is mostly a joke.
  There is some cool people there.
  
  When Hexbear sends its people, they’re not sending their best. They’re not sending you. They’re not sending other cool people. They’re sending people that have lots of problems, and they’re bringing those problems with us. They’re bringing flamewars. They’re bringing spam. They’re brigaders. And some, I assume, are good people.
  
  If it's a joke, that's all good. It's just that some other people don't make jokes, they try to hide instance beefing messages in some memes, and that usually just brings negativity in the comments.
- If I join lemmy.ca and my country invades them will they kick my red blooded american ass out
  
  We're against genocide so we'll spare you when the time happens.
- it won't work, they defederated us and I still see their cancer here.

It's about time they showed up, during trans day of visibility no less 😌

LPT - you don't have to give any fucks about who or what "hexbear.net" is, instead you can have a life.
- If I don't want to have a life, can someone explain this to me? What is hexbear, and what happened?
  
  It's a Left-unity instance for Marxists and Anarchists. That's really it, some people get really mad at that.
  
  Google can probably help you if you really think it's worth looking up.
- It would be better if they were completely defederated.
  The tankies need to find another space to fester.
  
  Yeah, people i disagree with really need to get out!
  
  "Well alright, the ni**ers and the chinks can stay, but we don't want the Irish!" - Blazing Saddles

Me; new here thinking "hexbear" is the furry server.... Oh...
Well I was half right

Never noticed they were gone. Just checked and my instance defederated from them. All is good in the world.
- Seriously.
  Feels good man.

I'm glad my feed has been pretty drab with them gone
- Same, but I can't seem to get Voyager to actually do instance blocking. It has the option, but it seems to not work.

You know that you can block instances yourself? Like you don't have to be forced to see their stuff. I think some of y'all enjoy whinging about shit for the sake of it.
- You know that blocking an instance does not block users from that instance?
  
  But it blocks all posts that are posted to communities on on that instance, so it guts 90% of the shit you don't want to see. Just block users when they piss you off.
  The constant posting of hatred towards other instances is just as if not more annoying to me than the dumb shit hexbear comes out with.
- I'm fine with hex, for the most part. This is a joke, in the jokes about the fediverse community.
- If you block an instance, you can't spend the next sixty posts complaining about the replies.
- Blocks don't hide your posts from them or prevent them from responding to your comments.
  
  And?
  Seeing "there is no record of this comment" in a chain brings me sexual pleasure.
  Die in your hole, person I disagree with!
  Plus you still get to see the replies to the comment, usually them being dunked on by other Lemmings.
- Let me try that. Quick, reply to me now.
  Hey, it works!

I immediately went into my Voyager settings to block the entire instance the moment I saw one of their comments. Not making the same mistake twice.
- Unfortuantely, blocking an instance only blocks posts and communities from it. You will still get comments.
  
  That's fucking lame as shit, I really appreciated when lemm.ee had them blocked.
- The spectre of Communism had you spooked, lol
  
  All my experiences with that instance and similar ones have been disgusting.
  Pushing people who post burning flags of a country and posts about it to be fully wiped out are accepted... Criticism regarding this gets your comment remove and a ban from the community.
  I don't need that again. Where can I block those pseudo-left pro-authoritarians instance?
  
  And here we have a hot take from a member of the Commie Triad. 🙃
  Lol, I see you commented with both your profiles ITT, and that you're a member of multiple horrible communities.
- Must be a sad life to ignore the only serious left posters in the anglosphere, have fun getting banned for saying we need more luigis.
  
  Authoritarianism is the antithesis of leftism. Hexbear sure loves authoritarians despite being "serious leftists".

I would love to get some context on this.
- You know how there is a subset of leftists that just make everything worse? Up their own ass, stupid standards/priorities, generally annoying? That's the general opinion of hexbear. I haven't really interacted with the instance much, but that's what i gather from the rumors and the occasional wild hexbear comment, but i might just be primed to notice the bad comments because of the reputation. maybe a bit of a dirtier/less stringently controlled beehaw.
  Edit: although as lemmy grows chuds will bitch about them just for not being right wing.
  
  You're obviously a CIA agent, liberal. Just because Hexbear supports AES states like Putin's Russia, you have the audacity to attack us. Where's the left unity, buttmuncher?
- Start here.
- Hexbear.net is a Leftist instance with Communists and Anarchists. The bare minimum required is to be an anti-Capitalist of some sort there. As a consequence, some people take issue with that.
  
  Not as simple as that
- tankies and the leftists without the ability to have critical thought AND/OR nuanced conversation.
  I’m sure some of them are nice people, but they aren’t sending their best.
  
  I find far more nuance on Hexbear regarding Leftist topics, at least in my experience. The average Hexbear user is more likely to have read theory, be it Anarchist or Marxist, than most other instances, so that baseline really helps elevate what kinds of conversations are had.

However will lemmy deal with dissenting or socialist comments? Oh bless my pure centrist heart!

Pretty much all my experiences with that instance and similar ones have been disgusting.
Pushing people who post burning flags of a country and posts about it to be fully wiped out are accepted... Criticism regarding this gets your comment remove and a ban from the community.
I don't need that again. Where can I block this pseudo-left pro-authoritarian instance in Voyager?
- Well, I can totally get what you're talking about, but instance blocking on lemmy only blocks communities and posts from a specific instance.
  I'd recommend you check out an instance which defederates from hex. Like lemmy.ca, sh.itjust.works and sopuli.xyz.
  
  Thanks for the explanation.
- Settings -> Filters & Blocks -> Scroll to the bottom to find "Blocked Instances".
  You'll still see their comments though on other instances.
- You’re talking about Hexbear being pro-Palestinian and anti-Zionist as though they are anti-semetic and wish extermination on Jewish people. No, that’s not how Hexbear is, Hexbear is neither genocidal nor anti-semetic.
  You might be talking about something else, but burning a flag of say, the US, does not mean Hexbear wants to slaughter everyone in the US. It means Hexbear stands against the US State and its ruling class, same with Israel and its genocidal ruling class.
  Anti-Zionism, anti-fascism, and being pro-Palestine are all 3 Leftist stances.
  Anyway, to block a community, you can do it in your settings. You will still see comments from users, just not comms.
  
  I think they are probably talking about the community being in denial of China and Russia being a dictatorship, and the fascist/authoritarian cock sucking.
  
  You’re talking about Hexbear being pro-Palestinian and anti-Zionist as though they are anti-semetic and wish extermination on Jewish people.
  No, I'm talking about people from there literally suggesting to wipe out Israel... That very innovative idea hasn't worked for the last 80 years and won't in the next 80 years. That's as intelligent as suggesting to wipe out the other side. I am not interested in that kind of content.

Welcome back!

Lol at the 4 losers who downvoted every comment somebody from hexbear made. Just block the instance if you're this mad.
- Blocking the instance does not block comments from that instance, only posts.
  
  They should block the users as they see them then, not like there's actually that many.

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