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.
We are not brigading. We're just extremely online and this post came into our feed like it did yours. Are we not allowed to comment on posts in our feed?
"Brigading"
Learn how federation works, or better yet, go back to reddit.
I know how it works, go back to your fork.
Go back to yours, brigader
Turns out YOU should learn how federation works, maybe you can do that after you learn how to stop shoving your propaganda down other people's throats.
you're currently "brigading" a thread in your non-native instance about how rude it is that liberals aren't allowed to spread their right-wing propaganda uncontested
every accusation a confession
Your account isnt from the midwest.social instance either...
No kidding, instances and forks are completely different things.
You really dont understand the history of lemmy at all. We were originally part of it like, at its inception, and communists helped build it. We forked so we could add shit like pronoun tags. We have as much of a right to be part of the fediverse as you do. Sorry that rustles your jimmies.
tl;dr We're as much of an instance as you are, get over it.
Go back to
GO THE FUCK BACK WHERE YOU CAME FROM 23 FUCKING DAYS OF USER HISTORY
WHO THE FUCK ARE YOU TO TELL ANYONE HERE HOW THINGS SHOULD BE
Bullshit
This post appeared on my feed. That's the only reason I'm here. Get used to not being popular. This isn't Reddit. No one is going to protect you from not encountering leftists.
Of course it did....
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You don't want an instance to defend themselves when being accused of something and possibly punished with defederation? Wow that sounds pretty authoritarian not a good look my dude do you not believe in due process and the rule of law?
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Please, go through hexbear and look for any comments calling for a brigade. You will find none.
Is your web browser broken? You're unable to see this for yourself?
It literally came up on my feed dude. Thats how the fediverse works. Also you may notice that YOU are not part of this instance either??? So.
Coping that your instance isn't as active as ours lol
I don't care how active my instance is, I'll probably move to another one soon anyway. I just hate authoritarian propaganda.
bro the United States has the largest prison population in the world and regularly overthrows countries they don't like, the US is by far the most authoritarian country in the world by any sensible definition
I thought Hexbear users didn't assume gender.
Do you even look up what these words mean? The US has some considerable authoritarian issues, but it's way more democratic than many other countries.
Also why are we suddenly talking about the US, are you just reading from the script or what?
apologies, we have pronoun tags on Hexbear so that we don't have to assume, we can just know.
democracy is when most of your country disapproves of their elected representatives and authoritarianism is when most of your country approves of their elected representatives and yes, there are in fact elections in China and even (hold on to your hat for this one) North Korea!
Is democracy is the mere condition of being able to choose from two awful choices, or is it instead the condition of having a competent government of which most of the population approves of?
Could you see how it would be incredibly easy to create an authoritarian government if you decided to have effectively the same party swap power every couple terms, so long as you defined "democracy" as "the ability to vote for what party rules over your state"? Could you see how it would be much more difficult to fulfil the latter definition without actually addressing the concerns of the populace, which bad authoritarian states would have a hard time doing?
"authoritarianism" is the condition of one person, or group of people, having coercive or even violent power over another. all governments are authoritarian, obviously, and most are very authoritarian. Lenin's definition of the state as the means for the outnumbered class (the rich, the elite, the bourgeoisie, whatever) to exert control over the working class is the most sensible and applicable definition I've ever found, and by that definition, and by the fact that people all around the world have to labor for the rich regularly to not starve or become homeless, all countries are generally pretty comparable in "authoritarian-ness", making it an awful way of defining countries at all.
Says the brain genius that has been non stop NPC posting how everyone is a bot or 'BrAiNwaSheD'
Couldn't help but notice you raising pronouns as a
'gotcha' and not actually providing your pronouns.
Hey maybe you'll have a better experience with the community on this website if you stop being such a giant piece of shit
Can I just say how infuriating that "why did you assume my gender" thing is? They tried that on me too and I felt compelled to apologize for saying "guy" but its so CLEARLY being used as a
"gotcha". Its such an obvious trap but you sort of HAVE to fall into it or look like even more of an asshole. Fucking infuriating.
After I got called on it once I'm just doing blanket they
—Xi Jinping
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I love brigading and I can't wait to brigade more posts. I am going to brigade every post I see