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.

    • awwwyissss@lemm.ee
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      11 months ago

      They have a lot of good ones, but I'd say

      1. Tiananmen Square
      2. Tulsa Race Massacre
      3. Holodomor famine
      • ThereRisesARedStar [she/her, they/them]
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        11 months ago

        The ukrainian famine was made into a genocide narrative by literal nazis, see hearst press. When the nazis occupied Ukraine, the rhetoric around killing Jewish people involved a lot of "collaborated to do the holodomor"

        Fuck your nazi rhetoric.

      • AntiOutsideAktion [he/him]
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        11 months ago

        LMAO three seconds ago I pointed out how you're the type of person who would side with the nazis and one click of a 'load more comments' finds you literally siding with nazis

      • Grimble [he/him,they/them]
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        11 months ago

        lmao you humorless pencilneck nerd. Did you realize that was a punchline, or does your algorithm not pick those up