I don’t like to see so many political posts in all and so many weird images in comment sections

  • Falkerie@sh.itjust.works
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    What in the world have I woken up into...

    As an Asian/Taiwanese, I do not understand why Hexbearians feel the need to point out what's racist for us.
    The picture of Xi the Pooh is clearly a parody and pointed specifically at Xi and the CCP, and not a general racist insult to Asians. Everyone, and I mean EVERYONE, in East Asia knows that, including the Chinese themselves. We use/refer to it a lot ourselves on our own social media platforms in Taiwan (習維尼, 習: Xi, and Winnie the Pooh: 維尼), and if you mention any of it on Chinese social media Weibo/WeChat, you likely will get banned from the platform.

    Kind of reminds me of cultural appropriation gone out of hand, where Westerners feel the need to be angry at other Westerners for wearing Japanese Kimonos or Chinese Quipaos. Like, no one here is offended. We don't understand why those people feel the need to be angry for us.

    Edit: I just saw a Hexbear comment on another thread posting that China doesn't ban Winnie the Pooh because Disney is able to exist. Well, no shit. It's in the context of Disney. Put that phrase in any other thread on their platform (preferably political) and see what happens, then can you claim that the CCP doesn't ban the word Xi the Pooh.

    • somename [she/her]
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      It might not be racist in your areas, but I’ve absolutely seen a lot of people be racist with it in the US. A lot of are from there, so I’ll admit we have a perspective bias, but when a large majority of the people we seeing spreading it are from that racist, US grown, bloc of posters, it kind of primes a response to it.

    • Tankiedesantski [he/him]
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      1 year ago

      As an Asian/Taiwanese, I do not understand why Hexbearians feel the need to point out what's racist for us.

      You dont speak for billions of Chinese people. The fact that you chose to refer to Chinese people in the third person speaks to that.

      Thank you for telling on yourself and your separatist friends for using racist memes in social media though.

        • AntiOutsideAktion [he/him]
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          1 year ago

          You know who does speak for billions of Chinese people though? The guy you're making a racist caricature of.

          Saying it's just one person is a thin excuse when it's a head of state

          • Falkerie@sh.itjust.works
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            I don't understand why you feel the need to protect a head of state of another country from being parodied either. If you live in China where they teach you to obey the rules of the CCP, thank the CCP and Xi for everything they provide, and basically view Xi as a god, then yeah I can see why. But you live in a Democratic state. The government is supposed to serve YOU, not the other way around. Sure you can show the leader some respect if you want, but it doesn't mean everyone has to either. You don't live in China where you can't even make jokes about their leader.

            Again, its a parody of Pooh, which is yellow. It has nothing to do with having yellow skin. If Pooh somehow is white/green/pink, that pic would be white/green/pink. You claim that it's racist against Asians in general, so I'm here to tell you as an Asian that it's not.

            • AntiOutsideAktion [he/him]
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              1 year ago

              I understand your need to reframe my objections to racist caricatures in general as being a defense of someone you're trying to demonize with your racism. But if you weren't being racist to asian people generally when you say it's acceptable to do minstrel show level racism to the right targets, you're certainly being racist towards Chinese people in general right now when you're using this stereotype of them being hive minded and easily brainwashed.

              in China where they teach you to obey the rules of the CCP, thank the CCP and Xi for everything they provide, and basically view Xi as a god

              Sounds like Christian fundamentalists talking about Arabs.

              • Falkerie@sh.itjust.works
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                I understand your need to reframe my objections to racist caricatures in general as being a defense of someone you're trying to demonize with your racism.

                Who the fuck am I being racist to? Asians? As an Asian myself?

                you're certainly being racist towards Chinese people in general right now when you're using this stereotype of them being hive minded and easily brainwashed.

                Nowhere have I said that. Them having that kind of education since a kid is a fact. And you clearly haven't been on Chinese social media to see what bullshit the pinkies say on there.

                Sounds like Christian fundamentalists talking about Arabs.

                I can link you their textbooks if you want

                • axont [she/her, comrade/them]
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                  1 year ago

                  I've seen a Chinese history textbook for kids in high school and it's just generic history using a Marxist lens and framing the CPC as the current administrative body. They list accomplishments of the party, yeah, but that's because they have accomplishments they can point to.

                  It's a lot better than how my American school tried to get me to worship slave owners like Thomas Jefferson and Alexander Hamilton.

                • AntiOutsideAktion [he/him]
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                  1 year ago

                  Them having that kind of education since a kid is a fact.

                  No it isn't. Prove it. Primary sources.

            • Grandpa_garbagio [he/him]
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              1 year ago

              Americans are not using it in the same context you are talking about.

              Racists co-opt things, this one was just easier to do than most

            • AntiOutsideAktion [he/him]
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              1 year ago

              http://www.npc.gov.cn/englishnpc/constitution2019/201911/1f65146fb6104dd3a2793875d19b5b29.shtml

              yes

        • Tankiedesantski [he/him]
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          1 year ago

          I at least speak for one Chinese person, me. You claim not to be Chinese, so you speak for zero Chinese people.

          • Falkerie@sh.itjust.works
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            1 year ago

            I can read Chinese, and understand what people say on their social media. So let me ask you then, when you see a picture of Xi depicted as Winnie the Pooh, do you see it as an insult to your leader, or as racism in general? Cause from what I see, the point of "yellow skin" never came up in the conversations in Chinese social media.

            Also, the original post claims that the picture is racist towards Asians in general, which includes Taiwan, therefore me. I think I have a right to say that I don't feel insulted by it.

            • Tankiedesantski [he/him]
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              1 year ago

              have personally spoken to many Chinese people who think the Pooh meme is racist.

              You may think it's not racist against Asians in general but that gives you no right to speak as if your particular social media experiences are representative of the opinions of Chinese people.

              Be a running dog for your American imperialist masters if you must but you will never change the fact that they will never accept you as equals and that Taiwan Island belongs to China.

              • s0ykaf [he/him]
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                1 year ago

                Be a running dog for your American imperialist masters if you must but you will never change the fact that they will never accept you as equals and that Taiwan Island belongs to China.

                ortega-clap

    • randint@lemm.ee
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      嗨,難得可以在 Lemmy 上遇到台灣人。相信我,我懂你的心情。我前幾天也被六熊們搞得很煩。什麼新疆人過得很好、習維尼迷因是種族歧視、台灣是中共領土等巴拉巴拉的。

      我家外面風好大,雨也好大,你那邊呢?

      • Falkerie@sh.itjust.works
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        嗨 是真的難得在這邊遇到台灣人
        我也沒特別加入甚麼亞洲人群哈哈

        我住北部 這邊風雨現在還好
        明天看起來不會有颱風假了😂
        東部南部跟離島看起來比較嚴重
        希望你那邊安好:)

        Edit: Someone clearly is salty enough to downvote a comment they didn't read or even bother to translate themselves. FYI, it's about the typhoon weather here in Taiwan. Not even remotely political/on topic. Pathetic.

        • randint@lemm.ee
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          1 year ago

          I also noticed the 1 or 2 people downvoting our comments. Seems like some people just downvote things they don't understand. Pathetic indeed.

        • randint@lemm.ee
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          1 year ago

          我其實也住北部啦哈哈,風真的很大,雨普通大而已。謝謝關心 xD。但我還是不死心,希望明天有颱風假

    • Annakah69 [she/her]
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      1 year ago

      No one cares that you're Chinese and like the picture. It's still racist.

  • Julian@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    Hexbear: why do so many people want to removed with us

    Also hexbear: Spams every complaint in other instances with unrelated images

    • Furball@sh.itjust.works
      hexagon
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      1 year ago

      We will convince them to like us by spamming emojis knowing that they will take up the screens of our opponents! That’ll show ‘em

    • yata@sh.itjust.works
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      1 year ago

      They are so eager to prove themselves the assholes that people accuse them of being, and then they whine and cry about instances defederating from them.

      • agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works
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        1 year ago

        I'm pretty sure the whole thing is a false flag/astroturf to discredit sincere leftist discourse. It seems a lot like a blend of bad leftist parody, and edgy 14-year-olds who fell for it

        • brain_in_a_box [he/him]
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          1 year ago

          This comment is the most "reddit liberal seeing real difference of opinion for the first time" thing I have ever seen.

          • agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works
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            1 year ago

            I'm a leftist (not a liberal, actually leftist). It's not a difference in opinion, it's a presentation so outrageously bad it can't be in good faith. It's a middle-school mockery of communists, it just makes us look ridiculous to the people we should be engaging with sincerely.

            • brain_in_a_box [he/him]
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              1 year ago

              it's a presentation so outrageously bad it can't be in good faith.

              I'm seeing much more outrageously bad presentation from the liberals than from the hexbears. Are they all right wing false flags too?

              it just makes us look ridiculous to the people we should be engaging with sincerely.

              How about you lot try engaging with us sincerely for once?

          • Pandemanium@lemm.ee
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            1 year ago

            Why is it hard to believe or understand that this, right here and now on lemmy, really is most westerners' first time interacting with actual communists? A lot of us dems are pretty open minded and a lot of us want the US to move toward socialism. But most of our exposure to communism has just been "communism bad." So of course we don't understand the fuller spectrum of leftism, because our fascist conservative party has forced everything so far to the right, and our education system is abysmal.

            Then we come here and see a bunch of "stupid libs" memes, which from the outside we can't understand because we identify as liberals (leftists). You folks give off the same vibe of how our fascist conservatives treat us (own the libs, kill a dem to save America, etc), and I think thats why people assume or equate you with Nazis. We've never met real communists, and a lot of stuff on the internet is fake. It's entirely understandable.

            • brain_in_a_box [he/him]
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              1 year ago

              You cannot say you are open minded while accusing people who disagree with you of being false flag astroterfers.

              A lot of us dems are pretty open minded and a lot of us want the US to move toward socialism. But most of our exposure to communism has just been "communism bad." So of course we don't understand the fuller spectrum of leftism, because our fascist conservative party has forced everything so far to the right, and our education system is abysmal.

              Why are you telling me this though; you've already written me off as a 'false flag/astroturf to discredit sincere leftist discourse.' If that's the case, what does explaining this to me accomplish?

              Then we come here and see a bunch of "stupid libs" memes

              How about this, the amount of bile we get from liberals is enormous, and we're tired of being expecting to respond with perfect manners when we know from experience that 90% of the people talking to us are doing so in bad faith and will spit any sincere effort on our parts back in our face.

              You folks give off the same vibe of how our fascist conservatives treat us (own the libs, kill a dem to save America, etc), and I think thats why people assume or equate you with Nazis.

              No offense, but if Nazism is just about 'vibes' to someone, then I don't think it is within my power to deprogram them, so why would I try.

              It's entirely understandable.

              The vast majority of liberals I interact with on the internet are venomous and hateful to me, that doesn't mean I assume they're all right wing false flags.

              • Pandemanium@lemm.ee
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                1 year ago

                I think you may have confused me with the other poster. I don't think you are astroturfers. I'm saying I can see how other westerners would make that mistake - they're just not aware that real communists exist. We should be better informed, but we're not. Sorry.

                I don't even "disagree" with communism personally, it's just that's it's largely impossible in the US. I'm willing to have discussions about it, but I also think compromise is important for any ideology. And communism seems to not want any compromise, which makes it hard to have a discussion. I could be wrong about that, though.

                As for the vibes... I do think this is valid and I'll explain why. Most theories sound good on paper. Even our conservative fiscal policies sound reasonable in theory. But when you hang out with the conservatives who support these theories, you find out they don't actually care about the theory, they're just hiding their hateful culture war stuff behind the fiscal policy and saying "watch what we say, not what we do." So studying communist theory is all well and good, but what I'm really interested in is getting to know actual people who stand behind the theory.

                • GarbageShoot [he/him]
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                  1 year ago

                  I can't remember who said it (it might have actually been Stalin) but the "works in theory but not in practice" idiom is bad and should be abandoned. Political theory is for the purpose of practice. If it fundamentally does not practically work, then the problem is with the theory. If it isn't fundamentally broken, then you can't speak in such generalizations about it.

                  Conservatism is vile when you drill down into what they are saying and don't just let them wax poetic about pastoral bullshit and wealth. You don't even need to look at the real world, you can get their hate from the theory once they start talking about the poor. Marxism in no way resembles this.

          • Croquette@sh.itjust.works
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            1 year ago

            This is the most "American that doesn't understand the liberal is only considered left in the US" comment I have ever seen

        • somename [she/her]
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          1 year ago

          Thinking people who disagree with you politically are bots or paid posters isn’t a healthy mindset to have.

          • agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works
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            I think they're bots because I nearly exactly agree with them politically. They're almost exactly my beliefs, but with the most annoying, self-righteous, groupthink presentation possible. That's why I think they're a false flag smear campaign to discredit actual leftists.

            • somename [she/her]
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              1 year ago

              I don’t think you’re actually a communist. Not a real one at least.

            • GarbageShoot [he/him]
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              1 year ago

              Consider the self-flattery of assuming a community that existed in isolation for three years just to eventually make you look bad when they became federated again.

              Maybe there is a real disagreement instead?

            • ShimmeringKoi [comrade/them]
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              1 year ago

              "They have what even I hold to be the correct beliefs, but they annoy me, therefore they are feds."

              That's a tad myopic, don't you think?

        • mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works
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          1 year ago

          Sounds like r/chapotraphouse in a nutshell.

          Also, I think TheDude was underselling why they were originally banned on Reddit. They were the left-wing version of r/TheDonald. The reason he listed was just the excuse Reddit used to justify kicking them off the platform

          • iie [they/them, he/him]
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            1 year ago

            what the fuck does that even mean, "left wing version of /r/TheDonald"

            like the donald but believing the exact opposite things?

        • 1nt3rd1m3nt10n4l [he/him]
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          1 year ago

          No. I had an account when the instance was first set up, but I got banned for getting into an argument with a power-user. I wouldn't say it's always been like this, but this is definitely what it's like normally.

          We mutated out of a band of subreddit refugees from r/ChapoTrapHouse, but I feel like the current community doesn't fully live up to what it used to be.

          • agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works
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            I think it was, by its nature, susceptible to compromise as described above, which has been capitalized upon. Whatever it was, or pretends to be, has pretty clearly been manipulated into a deliberately obnoxious parody that, functionally, obstructs left unity and overwhelmingly benefits neolibs.

              • agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works
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                1 year ago

                "People" can engage in civil discourse to discuss those beliefs. That's not what I'm seeing, what I'm seeing is immediate strawmanning, insults, and overall cartoonish disrespect. That's not someone with a different belief, that's someone presenting the most obnoxious possible parody of someone with that belief.

                What's funny is those beliefs aren't even that different, I'm pretty far left. This is just hivemind soundbite nonsense.

                • brain_in_a_box [he/him]
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                  1 year ago

                  "People" can engage in civil discourse to discuss those beliefs

                  They can, but it's a two way street.

                  That's not what I'm seeing

                  That's because you aren't doing that yourself.

                  what I'm seeing is immediate strawmanning, insults, and overall cartoonish disrespect.

                  And that's exactly what I'm seeing from you and other shitjustworks users.

                  That's not someone with a different belief, that's someone presenting the most obnoxious possible parody of someone with that belief.

                  So should I take it that all the people doing a perfect impression of an obnoxious, arrogant, disrespectful lib (like yourself), are actually secretly right wing trolls?

            • ShimmeringKoi [comrade/them]
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              Benefitting neolibs is when you're vocally against their highly profitable war in Ukraine, and left unity is when you vote blue to send cluster bombs to nazis.

        • MonkCanatella@sh.itjust.works
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          This exactly. I swear the entire point is to discredit and divide. The FBI couldn't do a better job if they tried. What I've been finding really interesting is the stress they put on being "anti-racist, anti-homophobic, anti-transphobic, anti-fascist, etc". If you were really those things you would most definitely not need to shoehorn that into EVERY SINGLE COMMENT. "hey it's a nice day outside, I'm anti-racist anti homophobic anti trans anti fascist btw" Mind you on reddit when chapotraphouse was popular there were a lot of them talking about how they HATE identity politics and basically dismissing anything to do with race. So the pronouns in the names, the constant non sequitors about how they're actually "more anti-racist and anti-homophobic" than you, etc. It feels like it might just be really deep irony and they're just memeing it.

          • brain_in_a_box [he/him]
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            1 year ago

            What if they tried to convince liberals that any serious leftists was actually a right wing false flag? That seems to be working pretty well for them.

          • imaqtpie@sh.itjust.worksM
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            I mistakenly assumed that they would be more similar to chapotraphouse, but now I see that the 3 year exile has stripped away many of the reasonable people. I still hope some of these users will snap out of it and realize they are acting obnoxiously and unproductively, but the chances of that happening seem slim at this point.

            CTH was aggressively leftist but it was actually funny and self aware. Hexbear seems to have forgotten how to interact with ordinary people.

            • MonkCanatella@sh.itjust.works
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              1 year ago

              I mean, I like aggressively leftist and most of lemmy that I've experienced feels that way. This hexbear shit feels like anti-leftist agitation though. It fucking stinks of feds. If not at the beginning, they're certainly there now

              • Annakah69 [she/her]
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                1 year ago

                You think feds want you to support socialist countries and point out their achievements?You're delusional.

                Say hi to your FBI handler for me.

          • GarbageShoot [he/him]
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            1 year ago

            and basically dismissing anything to do with race.

            Show me

            Anyway, the rest of your post is basically a deranged imagining trying to cope with leftists whose attitudes are different than you are accustomed to.

      • iie [they/them, he/him]
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        hexbears are abrasive because we expect most liberals to be venomous and dismissive toward us and not listen to anything we say, even if we operate in good faith. so instead of wasting a lot of energy on a response that will be thrown back at us like dogshit, we're flippant and cursory. for my part, I actually still respond in good faith most of the time, but I pick my battles.

    • brain_in_a_box [he/him]
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      1 year ago

      Hexbear: why do so many people want to removed with us

      Where did you get this idea from? We know damn well why: you're a bunch of coddled libs who are used to the reddit admins protecting you from seeing any views outside the USA overton windows, and you're now freaking out at seeing real difference of opinion.

      • Julian@lemm.ee
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        1 year ago

        I'm well aware how fucked up the US is. It created al-qaeda. Hell, this is some crazy secret knowledge you can't learn anywhere, it's on Wikipedia.

        Also a hot take, I don't like the war in Ukraine. I don't think it should be happening and I wish it would end because I think war fucking sucks.

        Believe it or not, the world is a complex place filled with a lot of countries that do lots of things, both good and bad, and it's not cool or edgy to just say the US is bad and [insert other country here] is good. Hell, you realize one of the most influential forces in the Chinese government (and a huge influence in the west) is Tencent, a massive profit-focused cooperation. That ain't communist.

  • Zirconium@sh.itjust.works
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    1 year ago

    Don't listen to hexbear users when they say they "defend themselves" from homophobia and transphobia. One user thought the admin of Blahaj.zone was being transphobic for not allowing politics in every community. Hexbear users will literally just lie about the repamant amount of homophobia and transphobia to justify their existence here.

    • somename [she/her]
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      1 year ago

      Going to be real, that’s not what happened. They had a mod in a large community there, that was a chaser, and that was misgendering people. They wouldn’t remove them, so we left. We’ve got a large amount of trans people on our instance and mod team, so we didn’t want to be exposed to that.

  • infuziSporg [e/em/eir]
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    1 year ago

    I love the idea of ditching Reddit, a site owned by a for-profit corporation and run by unaccountable admins, for a decentralized alternative where people have more choice and power over their own content...

    ...but why do people have to make it so political?

    • Kecessa@sh.itjust.works
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      1 year ago

      You should ask your fellow hexbear comrades why they turn everything to politics and Chinese/Russian propaganda 🤷 Heck the main community on your side of the verse is basically Shit Reddit Says with an alt-left political twist!

        • Kecessa@sh.itjust.works
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          1 year ago

          Not my fault you're the equivalent of the alt-right but on the left side and you give actual socialists a bad rep 🤷

          • infuziSporg [e/em/eir]
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            1 year ago

            What do we have in common with the alt-right, besides liking guns?

            Everywhere that communism and fascism have come into contact, they have instantly been in violent opposition to each other.

            I'm not sure what you're talking about when you say "actual socialists". What is your model of socialism? What are some "actual socialists" and how do they differ from the people Hexbear celebrates?

            • Maoo [none/use name]
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              1 year ago

              Words mean nothing to liberals whenever it's convenient. Sometimes words go from having meaning to none in the same sentence.

            • yata@sh.itjust.works
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              1 year ago

              What do we have in common with the alt-right

              Your pathological lying and your obnoxious childish behaviour. In fact a more relevant question would be what you have in common with the left at all, because I can't see a single thing.

              • infuziSporg [e/em/eir]
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                1 year ago

                Feel free to dig through my post history. Where have I lied? Where have I not been interacting in good faith?

                I've been an activist for almost a decade; I organize IRL with 4 different anarchist groups of various stripes and 1 demsoc group. I don't know what bar you're trying to set for "leftist" but I'm pretty sure I meet it.

              • AntiOutsideAktion [he/him]
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                1 year ago

                You accuse us of childish behavior as you fling unfounded accusations of lying at us without any kind of follow up or justification.

              • Gelamzer
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                deleted by creator

          • brain_in_a_box [he/him]
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            1 year ago

            the equivalent of the alt-right but on the left side

            "Why can't we kill half the trans!"

            • a nuanced centrist.
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          1 year ago

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        • Kecessa@sh.itjust.works
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          1 year ago

          I mean, stop acting like the left side version of the alt-right and I'll stop calling you that... Even just the second part of your reply there, that's exactly the kind of shit that the MAGA/anti-Vax crowd says to fight people they disagree with, word for word!

          • GarbageShoot [he/him]
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            1 year ago

            Calling things you don't like Chinese/Russian propaganda is exactly what neoliberals say, word for word, and has the benefit of actually having a substantial political connection instead of just being a popular metaphor.

    • Furball@sh.itjust.works
      hexagon
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      1 year ago

      I moved here because they took away Apollo and I really liked Apollo. It wasn’t a political decision

      • infuziSporg [e/em/eir]
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        1 year ago

        They prevented a service through which the users would use it, and the users had no say in it, and ended up having less functionality? Maybe it's a problem when users can't have self-determination. I'm glad there's something that could be done about that.

        It's just a question of how we relate to and use online resources, and who has the power over online communities. That's not political at all... or is it?

      • booty [he/him]
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        1 year ago

        https://imgur.com/nbmUeQf

        We aren't, you just don't understand how federation works.

        • Furball@sh.itjust.works
          hexagon
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          1 year ago

          I understand that people see posts from other instances, I don’t understand why people click on posts from other instance’s support pages. Why not scroll past

          • booty [he/him]
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            1 year ago
            1. The name of our instance is literally in this post's title what do you expect

            2. This comm is called "main" and the sidebar says it is the "Home of the sh.itjust.works instance." How is anyone supposed to know this is a "support" comm?

            • Furball@sh.itjust.works
              hexagon
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              1 year ago

              Well that’s normally what the “main” community for any instance would be, announcements and support posts. But I understand if that isn’t really clear

              • comfortable_doug [he/him, they/them]
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                1 year ago

                That's all fine and good. There are likely dozens of well mannered users on both sides of the federation fence. It's just the few arseholes also on both sides making it hell for everyone. I don't see why we can't just sub to the coms we like and be done with it. But lemmy keeps showing the weirdest shit and the knee-jerk reaction is to comment on it.

                • Kecessa@sh.itjust.works
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                  1 year ago

                  Funny how we didn't have any asshole issues since we defederated from EH and we suddenly have an asshole issue now that your instance whitelisted us...

                • barrbaric [he/him]
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                  1 year ago

                  It's largely the active sort imo. It's night and day since we reverted from our custom algorithm.

          • booty [he/him]
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            1 year ago

            Yes. We're federated. What's your point?

            • Kecessa@sh.itjust.works
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              1 year ago

              Well, you can see this conversation is in a community that has nothing to do with your instance and clearly with the question being asked your reaction should be "Oh, I shouldn't bother them if that's how they feel." but you just can't resist the temptation to stir some more shit and you don't even realize that you're just proving OP right.

      • Catradora_Stalinism [she/her, comrade/them]
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        1 year ago

        there are other sjw guys who keep walking into our personal shit, then saying some of the most terrible stuff i've ever heard. Not on good terms right now.

  • Landrin201@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    Reddit refugees on lemmy: it's nice to be on a site that doesn't have lots of power hungry mods arbitrarily banning people

    Also reddit refugees on lemmy: BAN ALL THE INSTANCES THAT I DONT AGREE WITH POLITICALLY

    • JaymesRS@midwest.social
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      1 year ago

      People don’t want to block hexbear because they disagree with them, they want to block that instance because they often act like they’ve got the social skills of a neglected 5-year-old on meth. Further, because that’s who they’ve surrounded themselves with they have convinced themselves it’s normal or even appreciated.

      • TawnyFroggy [she/her]
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        1 year ago

        It's really weird to just make shit up, ascribe it to entire group of people, and then just say it like it is fact. Odd behavior.

      • RuthlessCriticism [comrade/them]
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        1 year ago

        Different opinions are scary aren't they? Don't worry you can hide under the bed. Fortunately, the world will change around you anyways.

      • brain_in_a_box [he/him]
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        1 year ago

        Oh please, hexbear users are no ruder than any other instance to people they disagree with, it's just that you reddit refugees are used to being able to be as toxic as you like to communists without pushback, and now that you're on a level footing you can't take it.

        • Quacksalber@sh.itjust.works
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          1 year ago

          "Hexbears aren't rude!"
          You literally just posted your weirdly fetishized pooping pig two times in a row before this comment.

          But I guess the cognitive dissonance comes with being a china apologist.

          • brain_in_a_box [he/him]
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            1 year ago

            Hexbears aren't rude!"

            Not what I said. But I guess that kind of dishonesty comes with being a nazi apologist.

            • Quacksalber@sh.itjust.works
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              1 year ago

              To ease your easily startled mind, even if I consider the toxicity of users from other instances, your spam easily tops that.

              • brain_in_a_box [he/him]
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                1 year ago

                That's because you're not on the receiving end of toxicity and spam from other instances, because you don't disagree with their politics. That and because Hexbear is a big instance compared to most.

      • GarbageShoot [he/him]
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        1 year ago

        Have you not seen the thousand posts calling us fascists or some equivalent?

        • JaymesRS@midwest.social
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          1 year ago

          In Japan, there’s a competition known as the Kezuroukai Planing Competition. It’s a challenge for experienced woodworkers to see who can plane the thinnest contiguous piece of wood using a type of hand plane known as a kanna. The thinnest piece I last heard of was around 3 microns.

          I only mentioned this because it sounds like your skin might beat the record if people calling out the bad behavior of others on your instance immediately gets you this riled up.

          • GarbageShoot [he/him]
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            1 year ago

            I'm talking about what is true or false, not what is right or wrong.

            Also, calling someone a troll or an idiot vs calling them a fascist are two extremely different things and I very intentionally meant the latter

            • JaymesRS@midwest.social
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              1 year ago

              Oh, like when hexbears call for deaths of property owners or “libs”, is that one of those different things too?

              • GarbageShoot [he/him]
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                1 year ago

                Not property owners, property hoarders. Owning a home is fine, owning many homes to exploit the monopolistic nature of renting housing is antisocial behavior and must be stopped. If someone decides that their right to exploit those poorer than them is worth defending with their life, they made their choice.

                If you can't tell the difference between that and believing in antisemitic conspiracy theories and racial mythology, I am afraid the help you need is far beyond my capabilities.

                • JaymesRS@midwest.social
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                  1 year ago

                  You’re all over the place It’s like you heard the pigeon chess analogy and thought the pigeon was the hero of the story.

  • ArbitraryValue@sh.itjust.works
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    1 year ago

    I don't understand why blocking (or "defederating") instances is such a core part of the design of lemmy but not actually supported on a per-user basis.

  • RedstoneValley@sh.itjust.works
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    1 year ago

    Yeah I think it's about time to get that feature. As a user I have preferences that don't necessarily match with the defederation policies of any instance and I would very much like to choose for myself which instances I want to see.

    In my case: I'm not interested in polarising, divisive, toxic content and I really don't care if it's coming from the left or from the right. But it seems to me that I have to choose a side, because some instances are blocking the right wing extremism and some blocking the stuff to the left, but not both.

    Reading subscribed communities only is not an option, because then I will miss out on new stuff. And blocking all these awful communities in "all" by hand is too much work.

    tl;dr not being able to block instances as a user is giving me a bad Lemmy experience

  • icepuncher69@sh.itjust.works
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    1 year ago

    Theres no way yet, suposedly the devs are planing to give that option in the future.

    Right now im just not loging into lemmy as much as before, the ambience became way more toxic than the first 2 or 3 months i started using it, and i believe its beacause of hexbearians. Lots of bad takes (pariculary genocide apologism) have been thriving on lemmy since they refederated, whuch was ussually trashed before, so i say they are behind that. And when they have more sane takes, they screw them up by telling you to go read Mao, seriously, Mr "Best politics are the ones that come from a barrel of gun" Mao. He was a fucking thug not a great mind of comunism.

    I even re-made an account on reddit ffs, and reddit fucking sucks because my comments get ignored into oblivion no mather where i comment, and its not shadowbaning i think.

    So my recomendation is try going somewhere else while the option of blocking instances becomes availabe or touch some grass, although grass sucks since it doesnt fight back when asked about politics and it becomes really old very quickly.

    • Redcuban1959 [any]
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      1 year ago

      I guess you can unsubscribe from hexbear communities. And choose to see only the communities you are subscribed to. Idk how SJW works.

      • JuryNullification [he/him]
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        1 year ago

        They can also block specific comms. It’s how I stopped the AI art posts from filling up my All feed.