Now that a lot of the commotion has subsided I'm just curious to know how y'all are finding the Lemmy experience in general and whether you use it regularly like you did reddit?
Now that a lot of the commotion has subsided I'm just curious to know how y'all are finding the Lemmy experience in general and whether you use it regularly like you did reddit?
Just thought it was worth highlighting. Obviously, the view of Hexbear is that the people you are here calling autocratic aren't autocratic, but that gets into discussion of political opinions and my point is that this is a political opinion.
My main problem with hexbear people (or at least the annoying ones) is that imo they're a bit too vocal about it. I'm not browsing Lemmy for political content most of the time, yet it seems like some hexbear people feel the need to turn everything into a political discussion. That kinda content is fine in some places, but less welcome in others. In my personal life I interact with people all across the political spectum, and with most people I can totally have a normal chat. That works because we bond over shared intrests. It's very annoying when people constantly try to start discussions, whether I agree with them or not. There's a time and place for everything.
I don't think it's the majority of hexbear, I see plenty of good content from them. But there does appear to be a (relatively to all of Lemmy) quite large group of aggressively political people in there, to the point of trying to spread their ideology everywhere.
I would never deny that the Hexbear people have been overly aggressive and operating on a hair trigger, but it's not like they are coming into a thread on Right to Repair and saying "let me tell you about the Korean War!" They are nearly-always responding to topics that other people bring up.
I think we have differing experiences in that regard then
Can you link an example?
'Just because you do not take an interest in politics doesn't mean politics won't take an interest in you. '
This is exactly the type of response I would expect lol