Liberals of Lemmy, I think Hexbear hasn't been fair to you. I wanted to open a dialogue here so that we can come to more of an understanding of each other. There were a few specific points I actually think we're closely aligned on and I wanted to use these as a basis for discussion with a goal of coming to a more mutual understanding.
Edit: Wow this post really got away from me, I went ahead and marked the meat of it as a spoiler so that folks can jump right into the community discussion portion.
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Remember r/cth? What if getting banned only made us more communist and pro-trans people?
So then what's with the drama between lemmygrad users and hexbear users?
I don't think there's much drama. Maybe there would have been years ago, but not too much anymore. Lemmygrad has a slightly different focus, and is explicitly marxist leninist, where hexbear is also open to anarchists, maoists and other flavors of communists (though they will often be met with some argumentation on certain issues, explicit sectarianism/making fun of them or saying they aren't actually communist or whatever is banned)
Is there any drama?
Honestly idk, I just always see post like ohh Lemmygrad did this or hexbear did that, let's defederate.
Ya know, reactionary things.
I've seen different instances (.world or Lemmy.ca) defed one or the other.
I haven't seen anything between the grad and hexbear.
We're both leftist, so the anti-communists in the fediverse lump us together.
Oh, you mean other instances reacting to the two of us, not us having beef with each other? I'm not aware of any grad-hexbear feud. I've been thrilled to have hexbears around.