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.
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.
If you can't see or won't acknowledge the multiple threads talking about dunking on libs then this probably isn't worth either of our time.
I'm not seeing the connection between dunking on libs and denying them a platform. If anything lib-dunking requires that they have a platform so we can continue to have new takes to dunk on.
Your evidence:
come on man
OK I went to the front page of hexbear > local and there's only one thread that says "dunking on libs" and its someone being BORED of that and wanting to just chill. There's a couple posts in our dunk tank using posts made in other instances as material which I dont think you should have a problem with because it focuses our energy THERE instead. And those were there before federation. The dunk tank is just for anywhere we find opinions we find laughable.
Honestly, the rest is stuff that I'd hope you'd be on board with as a thread, like being mad a black Chik-Fil-A worker was sent home for dying her hair blonde.
I won't deny that my comrades enjoy "dunking" though. But like, what you said in your original post isn't that. Its not us having a stated goal of wrecking your site or whatever. Its not a vast conspiracy. You said there was a stated goal and that just doesn't exist. Is paranoia.