These bigoted, ignorant scum will never listen to anything. They are politically illiterate infants with an allergic reaction to reading.
They have ruined a safe space cultivated and cared for, they have turned this place into a new reddit.
I had a dude in my private messages going on about how I was both mutilating myself and other children. Many more people on hexbear have had similar experiences, with these worthless ignorant scum popping in to deliver the political equivalent of a giant shit.
As your friends, comrades, and people you say you defend get slurred at, dehumanized, and harassed please ask yourself:
Is it worth it?
I have the answer, I know you know it as well:
No its not
I used to think otherwise
I was a fool
its not worth a few laughs
even if you dunk all you want, that doesn't take away the knife those people put in our backs.
These bigots, fascists, and NATO liberals are as worthless offline as they are here, why should we give them any attention. They are worth less than the dirt beneath our fingernails. Why should we poison ourselves with their influence? We don't make any room for them offline, why should we not online?
And really
How many essays have your written?
How many sources have you combed through?
How many times have you explained the most basic facts of reality?
How many attempts at good faith?
Only for them to dismiss it in their stupidity. They don't read it, they just crumble and divert back to the programming these little shits trust in more than God.
For every time there is a good faith user, there are a dozen scumbag fascists. And most of the time, the "good faith one" just reverts back to their old shit.
Do you really think losing any member of the hexbear or lemmygrad community, longtime members or not, is worth a few good dunks?
I don't believe a small chance of gaining a new user is worth alienating an entire section of the community. The vast majority of those idiots are lost causes. If they are interested, the can just make an account and ask in good faith.
Is posting a meme to "own the liberals" worth your comrades getting more trauma from bigots harassing them?
No its not.
you've had your laugh, but it should end
Ban them all, SJW, lemm.ee, lemmy, the programmer nazi edglords. Keep Lemmygrad.
Defederate from those communities. We shouldn't sacrifice our own for more clicks. For having to subject ourselves to the opinions of people thoroughly brainwashed? We aren't reddit. We came here to get away from that. I'm sick of this. We are sick of this.
End it now
Genuine question, what's wrong with programming.dev? I've been on this instance for a couple months now and so far have only really seen technical and programming discussions on the communities I'm subscribed to.
I've not super kept up with the "everything" feed and all the conversations surrounding hexbear... but so far all I'm seeing is people being really polarized about stuff I'm not informed about - and as such, prefer to keep quiet about - so I just lurk a bit in such threads as I don't feel I have much to contribute.
Most of the stuff I've seen has been between hexbear and SIJW though, this is the first comment I've seen mention PD.
Nothing wrong with the programming discussions, but alot of programming.dev users have come into hexbear to post ignorant and hateful shit when it comes to politics
Could be trolls using another instance as a launching pad for starting trouble in other instances
Weird. That super bites. Well,I can assure you it doesn't strike me as a site culture thing- But I've also not seen examples so I hesitate to try and say that with any authority.
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Fair!
For some reason I've ran into some real craven posters from programming.dev, tho idk if that's due to a site culture or just one off dumbasses using programming.dev since they're also software fellas.
It doesn't seem like a site culture thing to me, but I've also not seen examples of what you're talking about so I can't say for sure. That really bites though.