malicious hexbears are taking advantage of people's trauma to turn them against the west folks (and judging by the recent survey, turning them trans too? 
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https://lemmy.world/comment/12777548 link cuz im not a lib
the comment in the screeshot is responding to @blakeus12@hexbear.net's wholesome introduction post here: https://hexbear.net/post/3631051
I made a TLDR here: https://hexbear.net/comment/5484512
i dunno, i read through it closely to make my tldr comment and there's just too much specific knowledge you wouldnt be able to get unless you there firsthand for it (knowing chapo.chat was the original name is a big one) unless someone read several hexbear lore posts this does seem like someone who used to lurk at bare minimum.
Maybe. But we also have plenty of nostalgia posts here about "remember that struggle session?" Literally one just yesterday about the BRICS girls struggle. Again. There's even that hexbear lore iceberg meme image that floats around sometimes. All it takes is skimming a single nostalgia thread to get that level of hexbear specific knowledge.
Their "the newsmega was the worst" part is what makes me think they probably were here for just a little while, though. Probably someone who couldn't let go of their imperialist brainworms and were flabbergasted at how we weren't all backing the poor smol bean wholesome Ukrainians and got their ass handed to them by people who actually have some understanding of geopolitics and history. The "treating it like football" is bizarre because the situation was the exact opposite, with the newsmega regulars often pointing out that that is exactly how the blue-and-yellow flag emoji people treat it, and ridiculing that kind of simplistic non-analysis. It's the typical accusation that's actually a confession.
My guess is that it was some lib who fancied themselves a leftie, who hung out here once or twice before the Ukraine conflict kicked off (when the newsmega was created, basically), said something cringe about it after it did and got schooled as a result. Rather than learn, they ragequit, unable to fathom how people who clearly knew much more than they did didn't support the typical US State Dept. narratives, which they still hold dear to their heart. Now they have constructed some bullshit scenario about it for the .world hexbear-hatred thread that also made them feel better about themselves.
I just think they got bullied off the site by ZPoster lmao. It was probably what happened. They peddled some Putler is out of missiles bullshit which set off ZPoster.
i mean we do but they're not common enough imo that you'd be able to just find them on a whim you'd have to either get lucky (and like, as an example you wouldnt be able to just find that brics post logged out since it was marked nsfw), come to this site multiple days in a row looking for shit to dunk on on the front page and absoring it that way or spend time looking for threads
well the burden on proof is on them. I think they're just so obsessed with hexbear hate that they deep-dived into the archives to build their "I was there!" persona.
quite frankly i'm choosing to believe they were a hexbear user because I think it's the funniest option, they apparently only learned there was a public modlog 3 days ago which would mean in their supposed years of using the site they never saw "modlog" at the bottom lmao
there was a struggle session about the modlog not showing the moderators names anymore, but yeah I'll also assume that they were a hexbear and just incredibly oblivious
... i shouldnt even ask but what was the struggle session even about, it protects mods from abuse and even without it all you have to do is make shared mod accounts and it serves the same purpose???
What you see in Hexbear now is Hexbear after the TransComrade69 reforms. Before them, it used to be a lot more rancid and had even worse issues with harassment, transphobia, misogyny, etc from certain users and it was often directed at mods. The change to anonymize mods pissed off the exact kind of user you can imagine.
The Deng of Hexbear
very strange behavior, even without the devs catering to them all the mods would have need to do was make shared mod accounts and it would have accomplished the same thing
Doesn't really work, though, if a mod is demoted that would add a lot of extra work. Not to mention that there's a complicated mess of people who moderate several comms, so accounts would have to be per-comm and suddenly you're managing a lot of credentials for many accounts when you could've just had one per person.
i mean i thought a lot of places did that on
and i think ive seen it elsewhere on lemmy i didnt think it would be too much of a hassle although I suppose i dont know if it logs you out of other browsers when you change your password or not. i have no clue if bots were in lemmy back that early or how much functionality they had but you might have been able to use them i suppose