Western Imperialist Commies: "Laddie dah, we are so progressive, we demand the rights of all people!"
Actual communist country exists and starts doing communist things
Western Commies: REVISIONISTS, GENOCIDAIRES, EEEVIIIILLL
Hexbear holds a mirror and a path to other "progressive" instances who up to these point, felt like they were the biggest game in town.
It'll be funny when the admins arrive to the "Socialism in One Country" Doctrine.
I haven't been on in a while, i saw the news about federation and it's been a total shitshow.
I shouldn't say I'm surprised. I've interacted with so many normies the last few months and they are all like a homeless-encampment-down-the-street away from calling for genocide.
America is a truly deeply fucked up place with very few people doing actual self-introspection or legitimate critical analysis of the society in which they participate - often willingly and uncritically-. Why would any expectation that posting, a mindless numbing activity for your avg. internet consumer, would be any different.
Federation has gone better than expected imo. There were fears that we'd get overwhelmed and this would no longer be a refuge for trans/queer folks, and while other supposed queer ally instances have been a bit shit, the msun thrust of that worry hasn't happened.
It's the exact opposite: other instances can't handle our posting power. One defeferated before we even federated. Others are threatening to do so based on largely made-up or big baby reasons.
It's great.
I wanna clarify that it's been a total shitshow for other instances. Not for us.
It's extremely funny that their excuse for defederation is emoji sizes, when that's a fix you could collaborate on and would benefit the entire federated system. Having free, high quality, discord-level emojis without having to enter into some gamified or subscription based system should be a net plus - instead they are looking at it as an excuse to defederate.
The constant accusations of russian shilling are unsurprising, to the point of boredom.
If you want to know what the response was like from Western pro-imperialist "socialists"/soc-dem types, look no further than the interview between H.G. Wells and Stalin:
"It seems to me that I am more to the Left than you, Mr. Stalin; I think the old system is nearer to its end than you think."
(Narrated version with commentary courtesy of Socialism For All, if you prefer it being read to you)
H.G. Wells literally wrote a novel about the class divide being so severe it turned humanity into two entirely different species in the distant future.
I love the atmosphere of his novels, but he was an archetypal "left-lib" sort. Even lowkey defending colonialism in one of his books because it "educated the natives."
