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.
-person who just complained about other people getting upvotes
That absolutely was not what my comment was about. Is your entire instance this toxic as this thread?
I’ve actually never felt unwelcome or not wanted in hexbear. Probably because I engage in posts there in good faith and disagree politely.
this is a thread complaining about us, of course we’re not gonna be particularly nice
The defederation PR merge cannot come soon enough
This is truly the death of the marketplace of ideas
Afraid to debate us in the marketplace of ideas![expert-shapiro expert-shapiro](https://www.hexbear.net/pictrs/image/9693ff39-c7a9-4711-be7c-780912689cda.png)
Now said it without crying, lib.