These bigoted, ignorant scum will never listen to anything. They are politically illiterate infants with an allergic reaction to reading.
They have ruined a safe space cultivated and cared for, they have turned this place into a new reddit.
I had a dude in my private messages going on about how I was both mutilating myself and other children. Many more people on hexbear have had similar experiences, with these worthless ignorant scum popping in to deliver the political equivalent of a giant shit.
As your friends, comrades, and people you say you defend get slurred at, dehumanized, and harassed please ask yourself:
Is it worth it?
I have the answer, I know you know it as well:
No its not
I used to think otherwise
I was a fool
its not worth a few laughs
even if you dunk all you want, that doesn't take away the knife those people put in our backs.
These bigots, fascists, and NATO liberals are as worthless offline as they are here, why should we give them any attention. They are worth less than the dirt beneath our fingernails. Why should we poison ourselves with their influence? We don't make any room for them offline, why should we not online?
And really
How many essays have your written?
How many sources have you combed through?
How many times have you explained the most basic facts of reality?
How many attempts at good faith?
Only for them to dismiss it in their stupidity. They don't read it, they just crumble and divert back to the programming these little shits trust in more than God.
For every time there is a good faith user, there are a dozen scumbag fascists. And most of the time, the "good faith one" just reverts back to their old shit.
Do you really think losing any member of the hexbear or lemmygrad community, longtime members or not, is worth a few good dunks?
I don't believe a small chance of gaining a new user is worth alienating an entire section of the community. The vast majority of those idiots are lost causes. If they are interested, the can just make an account and ask in good faith.
Is posting a meme to "own the liberals" worth your comrades getting more trauma from bigots harassing them?
No its not.
you've had your laugh, but it should end
Ban them all, SJW, lemm.ee, lemmy, the programmer nazi edglords. Keep Lemmygrad.
Defederate from those communities. We shouldn't sacrifice our own for more clicks. For having to subject ourselves to the opinions of people thoroughly brainwashed? We aren't reddit. We came here to get away from that. I'm sick of this. We are sick of this.
End it now
Can we make it so we can post in other instances but other instances cant post on hexbear? Our presence on the fediverse is valuable, we have unironically improved other instances by dunking on their user bases. I think long term hexbear moderators should try to preform a coup on the other moderation teams of the other websites, and if they are following any of the teachings of Lenin should slowly guide the other instances into the light of communism by acting sort of as a vanguard. I’m sorry that you are being forced to educated the lemmy chuds, that is emotional labor and you haven’t been compensated for it. It shouldn’t be our job to educate. But defederation is a bad take, we need some growth, we aren’t advocating for the internet equivalent of antinatalism.
I don't care about their existence, I just want them gone. I wont risk our friends for the sake of a slight growth. I would love to take over their instances and start purging the userbase, but until that happens, I don't want to read a word from them.
Mao the libs
Perhaps we should block SJW users from posting here, or maybe have a single community where they're allowed in. They are by far the worst offenders in my experience.
This has been proposed before. A silo for newcomers is something I generally support.
But I imagine it would take some amount of custom coding that the current admins may not have time to develop.
In the meantime, if individual users are getting hate bombed by multiple vexatious accounts, it sounds like defederation reasonable.
with some new features in the pipe now it may become possible to do local-only comms but the problem is what about lemmygrad and lemmy.ml posters? do we just exclude them from most of our comms? trying to tweak it on a per instance basis is where it gets messy and needs more custom dev effort