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What's the deal with Hexbear? - Hexbear
hexbear.netHas 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 [https://lemmy.fediverse.observer/list] 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.
Seriously, they're doing my bits for me!
pronouns too actually lol
Upstream lemmy doesn't want them because it's too english-specific and they desperately want lemmy to be general purpose software that can be used by anyone in any language so pronouns are a no-go. It's mostly admirable but sometimes they miss IMO. They want a general purpose flair system and are amenable to having pronouns be configurable as a mandatory flair, but that's a lot of development effort so it hasn't happened for like 2 years running