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.

  • 👁️👄👁️@lemm.ee
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    I didn’t even know my instance has a world news, and it’s like barely active. Implying that represents my instance community is just bad faith. And no, libs are just like smug right wingers that don’t know they’re right wing, where centrists are just dumbasses who think they’re smarter then everyone while repeating reactionary bullshit

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        To be fair though, I get the feeling this person is just naive and decently well intentioned. I get your frustration and lack of patience though. But

        And no, libs are just like smug right wingers that don’t know they’re right wing, where centrists are just dumbasses who think they’re smarter then everyone while repeating reactionary bullshit

        Is a pretty good thing to say lol.

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      libs are just like smug right wingers that don’t know they’re right wing, where centrists are just dumbasses who think they’re smarter then everyone while repeating reactionary bullshit

      100-com

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      1 year ago

      it’s really amazing how you know literally nothing about the website you actually signed up for but you’re a PhD candidate on everything to do with hexbear