What's going on with hexbears
What's going on with hexbears
Seems people frequently talk about negative experiences of them then end up banned shortly after
Also seems like people are weirdly quick to jump to their defense for the internet
Most hexbears are stand up chaps and under normal circumstances we get along great. The main issue as far as I’m concerned is that their posting culture does not align with what I want out of my Lemmy experience.
Basically, they are fighters. They run around the fediverse picking ten arguments at a time, getting in people’s faces, escalating moderation decisions to instance admins and generally have zero chill.
Me, I like to hang out with chill people and relax and shoot the shit about video games and stuff. Yes yes I know western imperialism bad, but after the fifth time I’m done with the topic.
163I checked Hexbear a couple of times in the last weeks and although they brand themselfs as some lefty/communist/socialist community, I always thought it felt more like some edgelords being against for the sake of being against. Also the tone is pretty rude and made me think of certain Subreddits I usually avoided back when I was on Reddit.
127Go check what's happening on shitjustworks instance currently and say that again.
They're just straight up toxic 99% of the time and they don't seem to want to do anything about it. It's a resounding echo of a sentiment on most Lemmy instances that it is how they act and yet, I still see weird and factually wrong takes like this.
48I feel like we’re playing a semantics game here.
We are definitely referring to the same behavior.
They run around the fediverse picking ten arguments at a time, getting in people’s faces, escalating moderation decisions to instance admins and generally have zero chill.
This is, for most people including me, toxic behavior. They have a toxic posting culture.
yet, I still see weird and factually wrong takes like this.
It helps if you engage with the “takes” before you label them.
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110They're a bunch of tankies who dogpile, sealion, and brigade at basically any opportunity.
They literally have a community on their website dedicated to shitting on people they disagree with while having rules that require you to provide a link to them and not having a rule against interacting unless it's with instance admins. They'll defend it saying it's not for brigading but it's obvious what it's for. "This isn't for brigading," then doesn't condemn brigading when it happens.
89My general experience is that they are obnoxious and combative and is working to make "the libs" have a bad time on Lemmy and when they are mentioned with these kinds of post they fill them saying that they are just some silly spicy boys in the hope that it will fool the people that are yet to meet them in the wild.
81In short, tankies that won’t shut up and stop shoehorning themselves into every conversation. Feel free to block every user that will inevitably reply to this comment about how I’m not Trotskij-pilled and really a bourgeoisie Jeff Bezos semen demon, or some stupid shit like that.
65If you remove Bezos from it, semen demon actually sounds like a kinda badass thing to be 😆
21Hell yeah bro!
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-31MEMES
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They’re just trolls. They say their communist, but I haven’t seen any evidence other than they say they hate capitalism. But who doesn’t nowadays? Really they’re anarchists with nothing more to do.
Imagine the worst right wing trump supporter spouting off crazy shit and trying to get you pissed off. That’s them, but the left side.
They also like to team up and have multiple accounts.
Buuut… they usually hate all the same things I do, so it’s hard to hate them too. 🤷♂️
Don’t feed the bear.
63Wait so are we anarchists or tankies? I'm confused...
-10You are ideologically incoherent which is descriptions of you are incoherent too.
37Usually when I see hexbear users around, they are just holding a normal conversation. But there's this one thread I found where a guy with three obvious alt accounts is trolling, and a dozen hexbear users are licking a certain dictator's boots. So I would say it ranges from Normal to Tankies.
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They’re annoying as fuck with a toxic culture, which is why they were running as isolated instance for so long
61No it was because we started before federation was in the codebase, and it took a lot of development work before we were able to federate due to the forks diverging. But ok genius.
-46I mean... this pretty much sums up most lemmy users anyway
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The place is awful. Waiting for individual instance banning.
51Do you mean individual instance blocking?
There's a problem with that
As far as I understand it that would mean that they're votes still federate on posts and comments.
So you may block them but their influence on posts will still be felt.
Honestly switching to an instance that isn't federated with them or trying to convince your local admins to do so is the better option.
Though being on Lemmy.ml convince the admins will likely be a serious uphill battle.
15Personally I specifically looked for an instance that defederates only illegal content, I can do the blocking of content I don’t care for myself. The most important thing is that I get as close to no preselected bias in my feed as possible.
From there I can block or hide whatever, I just want it to be my choice. Which is why I find all the defederation calls concerning. Use the blocking feature, defederation excludes discourse as well, and I would rather not sit in an echo chamber.
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these are some mighty bold words. bold words that i could place next to a soyjak. you best think your next words carefully, son
-35sic biggs on 'em
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They're annoying, like over-caffeinated teenagers, and they like to use what I presume are something like Twitch emotes that don't work outside of hexbear, which looks really stupid.
I don't think they're evil or anything, but they're just so universally awful to deal with that I can fully support immediate no-questions-asked defederation. They're the fediverse equivalent of a decent enough guy who just fucking reeks because they refuse to ever shower or wear deodorant.
43Unfortunately they are very in your face unless you fully submit to their view. They belittle your efforts if it is anything but outright revolution, cheer on horrible regimes and deny genocides. Very US centric point of view.
Of course it is not all of them, but that's what you will experience very soon if you interact with them, because it is a radicalized echo chamber let loose.
Our instance actually managed to get defederated from them though. Although it wasn't handled well from either side they seriously only dish out, but can't take a hit. I won't say that nothing of value was lost, because there were a few moderate users and of course some interesting content might be lost, but overall my lemmy experience got better without them.
29I think a lot of the backlash is because people are used to being inside their comfortable echo chambers where dissenting voices are totally marginalised and they felt like their opinions were universally shared among sensible people.
With federation, those echo chambers are interacting with each-other a lot more than they usually would, on relatively equal footing, and being confronted by the idea that other people think that your opinions are shit and that you tacitly support some evil practice is an uncomfortable feeling! The natural inclination is to reject that sort of experience as a jerk who is intentionally trolling you, personally, because they’re wrong or brainwashed or whatever.
The reality is that we’re all just flawed people who aren’t very good at dealing with our emotions and it’s a lot easier to blame and banish someone who disagrees with us than to talk to them and come to a consensus. But the latter is how we actually solve our conflicts.
We have a lot more in common with each-other than separates us.
Except from Nazis, fuck Nazis.
17We have a lot more in common with each-other than separates us.
This is the correct take.
People on this site have a bad habit of larping like any red or black army actually exists or is even likely to exist in the near term. Saying stuff like never organize with X group as though there aren't already few enough leftists out here to begin with.
We're so far from the point where we can even imagine what faction of the left will claim a majority in any hypothetical revolution and people are arguing about China or "red-fash" nonsense when we have a crumbling empire right at our feet that needs us to organize and unite.
We have a hell of a lot of work to do both in outreach and education and must provide a clear alternative to reactionary groups for the masses losing faith in the legitimacy or efficacy of liberal capitalism before we start rehashing 100 year old ideological beefs.
The tankies aren't going to murder you, there's no impending revolution for the anarchists to betray and thinking that the exact same historical conflicts and mistakes will be inevitably repeated is defeatist and anti-materialist.
A better world is possible. None of us can accurately say how or when we will get there but unless we get our shit together it will be to late. Maybe it already is too late, maybe the world has already ended but we have to at least try.
5Nazis bad but communists fine?
-16This is the hardest YES I have ever typed.
31Yes
27I would be happy to answer your question, but these things can be quite complex - would you help me by letting me know what you understand fascism to mean, and what you understand communism to mean? It’s important that we establish mutual agreement on the meaning of those terms before we can really discuss further!
20glad you're figuring it out!
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I've been on Hexbear for two and a half years and honestly I still couldn't tell you what the deal with its userbase is
8Lemmy is mostly leftists and communists and it seems that patience is running thin on how some very active reactionary HB's behave against the ideologies. There are also cool & funny leftists there but they get lost in noise.
6Lemmy isn't mostly leftists and commies, it's that the leftist and commie instances defederated with the right wing instances
10It's both true that Lemmy is mostly leftists and communists, and which have defederated from right wingers
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this is literally backwards lmao
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Locking this thread down due to breaking instance rule #2.
1They are absolutely huge hairy brawny angular posting units.
-1Personally I enjoy their antics, I prefer their brand to the one of the right wing circle jerk and if they manage to impede theirs I am more than fine about them.
-5mostly just folks very resistant to learn some quite simple things due to their overly propagandized worldview
I'm talking about people that have trouble with basic understandings of political economy like:
leftism : anti-capitalist :: liberal : anti-communist
I can only imagine the shock they are experiencing
we're mostly pretty chill if people can be chill with each other, unfortunately some folks are just uncomfortable with understanding the complexity of the world I guess
-21Almost like anti-communists get mad and almost immediately out themselves as reactionary pieces of shit
-24People are scared of the end of modern slavery, free healthcare and democracy
-25I jump to the defense of hexbear because, well ... I like them.
They're spicy.
I've seen some truly heinous, ignorant, repugnant shit on here but it's never actually been from hexbear users.
(it's been from lemmygrad users)
hexbear users have been outspoken and unapologetically staunch in defending their positions, but never outright bloodthirsty or antagonistic.
or at least, maybe my sarcasm detection is being more generous than it's supposed to be, and registering false positives...? because to my view I've seen hexbears JOKE about some dark shit, but it never came across as unironically hostile to me.
but anyway, my opinion alone won't sway the outcome. if the consensus forms firmly against hexbear, i'll just have to roll with that outcome. But i'd miss 'em, I would.
-34Yeah I think your sarcasm detector is being too generous to them.
Here's a link to a thread (specifically a comment about why they federated) where they are talking about a recent rule change in regards to their rules of conduct.
One of the admins response to the comment is pretty telling.
Basically being, "keep doing what you're doing just don't do so in instance meta threads."
Honestly sorting the thread by "top" is also pretty telling on their opions.
30Agreed. I feel that hexbear is kinda like 4chan. Some posts are 200 IQ sarcasm, rpfagging or just geniounely schizo.
Although on sopuli.xyz they are banned, but I sometimes checked on the hexbear instance's posts.
-3I'm with you
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