Greetings dear lemm.ee folks,
I'm not like those other mean Hexbearians. I'm one of the good ones, I promise. I just want choke
I just want you to love me. I'm so sorry for being on Hexbear. Please, please forgive me. I'll do anything. Anything.
Do you want me to stop using emojis? Done. No more PPB? Done. Intense sobbing
I hereby forswear socialism. I'm a liberal now. Do you love me now? Please? Please? Just pick me.
I humbly request that all parties involved in the comments refrain from using slurs or name-calling to reduce the workload on mods and admins.
Edit: @comr@hexbear.net got banned. Eat shit
First of all, you’re a bunch of stupid trump-loving alt-left antifa fascist children
Secondly, you resort to name calling
I can't tell if this is a joke or not, so I'll just say I enjoyed reading this because it made me laugh
spoiler
It's a joke, look at their post history. Have to admit they almost got me to bite because you never know
Just curious here. What are your solutions to the endlessly decaying social and material conditions of the West?
Edit: I think I got caught in the bit again
I see you and I hear your question, and let me just say: I hear you. I see you. You are seen. You are heard
I don't get hexbear, all I did was post one little political opinion and all of a sudden I have people calling me a fascist and replying with rude emojis. Very uncivil behavior, I'm used to forums where my legitimate and valuable political ideas can be discussed freely and with mutual respect!
Also please do not ask what I posted or look up the original thread or quote any of my previous comments, that is also uncivil.
Hexbear is the chemo to the r/Politics migration that is killing Lemmy.
lmao so we kill cancer cells, explode them into their component parts, pull their remains into the blood stream and filter them out at the kidneys to finally piss them out and flush them into the sewage system where cancer cells belong?
fucking based
Ee wants to defend? That's kinda sad I like ee. Mostly because their takes are chaos. Absolutely chaos. Sometimes they're good. Sometimes they're bad. Sometimes you get that take outta left field about how the earth was flat but they used the corners in the COVID vaccine and that's why it's round now. It's a grab bag of fun and surprise every time.
the earth was flat but they used the corners in the COVID vaccine and that's why it's round now
...is this hyperbole, or did a comment actually assert this?
Not so much that I had to question it, just that the off chance this was a reference was too good to pass up
Another thing, you Hexbears have big, annoying emojis of Ben Shapiro and Jordan Peterson, but why don't you have big, annoying emojis of me?
I want better representation in your emojis.
I'm so sorry for being on Hexbear
Some crimes can never be forgiven
I'm a liberal now. Do you love me now?
Sorry, but I have to do it:
Love me, love me, love me, I'm a liberal
Hexbear has some of the dumbest users, people there think I have good takes sometimes.
Why does such a large portion of lemm.ee want to block hexbear.net?
they can't handle the bantz
Just a suggestion, but maybe one particular Hexbear should stop misspelling my name in increasingly silly way?
Also, watch my movies.
Tryna break with Reddit tradition by misspelling someone else's name besides Benedict Cumberbatch all the time.
According to comments in other posts from other instance Libs, seemingly we have to follow their posting. Which is to be il-informed and have absolute dog shit takes with a strong preference for bigotry against any non Anglosphere state.
Also you don't need any proper justification for capitalism, just invoke innovation with no further elaboration.
As a former lemm.ee user, I don't get it.
After a recent thread dedicated to only shitting on hexbear, with constant hate and misinformation being thrown around, I decided to apply here.
I'm sick of explaining how people can ignore things they don't like on All by simply scrolling by, or blocking communities that routinely infuriate them.
The hate and misinformation is completely exhausting, in the short timespan that lemm.ee has existed, I have lost more faith in humanity in general and internet discourse in particular than in probably all of my previous life. Just reading through the constant garbage in the admin report queue is honestly too much sometimes.
I posted this question in the latest thread on lemm.ee, but I'll repost here as well: if anybody has any ideas on how to improve the situation, specifically in terms of the apparently deep hatred between some users based solely on what home instance they are browsing Lemmy from, then I am really open to all suggestions.
At this point, they're just pushing an agenda. All that "Hexbear operates in bad faith." is projection. If they really don't want to see our posts, they can always just create a lemmy.world or sh.itjust.works account. Our mods and admins are already banning the more rabid haters, so the only reason why some Hexbear hater would be malding about us is if they're purposefully searching for us to mald about, and that's entirely their problem.
I appreciate your efforts. I reported the thread in question when I initially saw it, and I'm glad it was eventually locked.
It's a lose-lose situation. People post threads about hexbear, then hexbear users show up to defend themselves, and then they get attacked for "brigading" or otherwise having a sudden presence in the thread. Rinse and repeat.
For me, the biggest annoyance is the constant "they are right wing trolls!" argument, or saying we don't support GSM/LGBTQ+ here because some users post sarcastic memes about the right. Like holy fuck it boils my blood.
I do want you to know, I didn't leave lemm.ee because of you or how you run the instance. I left because I can't stand the idiotic and mindless parroting of bullshit coming from other users. It's not your fault that a slice of users there are morons, especially with the size of the instance. Keep doing what you're doing and you will eventually find the path forward. Just don't lose sight of your own morality and ideals in the process.
if you're not already doing so, I recommend talking to our mod team because we went through similar crises when the site was younger. I think the realization we all came to eventually was that accounts are cheap - people can always remake them and change their behavior to be less corrosive to the site - so being free with the banhammer is ultimately less of a tax than just letting people stir up drama endlessly.
Yeah. They should honestly just nuke these accounts from orbit every time they start posting the bullshit.
The worst that could happen is that they make another account to post the same garbage again, and the best that could happen would be users not posting bullshit anymore so they don't have to keep making new accounts. Sounds like a win to me
I doubt you'll like the answer, but you should ban those folks. And if people complain about them getting banned, ban them too.
I've come to see that, unlike many liberals, you actually do believe what you say and have an honest commitment to creating an open platform, which is why I say that I don't think you'll like the answer. But it's better in the long term. This site has undergone repeated purges. Quite prominent users, even mods, have been banned. While it's painful, it contributes to making a platform where the users you actually do want come.
Hate clicks and hate traffic have pretty much always been a thing. You can see it pretty much anywhere you go. Silicon Valley platforms deliberately exploited this through algorithms designed to maximize engagement through hate and other negative emotional turmoil. Like a never ending car crash you can't look away from, so people would always be trapped for extended periods of time looking at stuff that made them miserable.
Very profitable for those platforms.
Another thing is people like to vent and be upset about shit, given their unfulfilling lives. It's just in this case, that energy is being funneled into bad faith engagement and counterproductive practices (misinformation).
I really feel like it's more of a parroting behavior (in this specific case). Repeating things you hear without ever looking into it. Same reason people hate communism, socialists, etc. Propaganda is a fucking demon. And yes, posting about your own misery can be cathartic, so people do it. The problem is that the misery is internal and the projection is misplaced
Comfortable. Doug. That is the name that I am called.
Fuck you too GiantFloppyCock, happy to have you here
Why not? You lead with a fuck you for all of us but want to keep the link open? What's the mentality there? Are we worth your respect or not?
I think the liberal philosophy on this is that you can hate someone, think they're morally wrong, think they're a genocide denier or whatever, and still think they deserve a platform and space in the discussion. The communist take would be to eradicate harmful behaviors and patterns, for the sake of good, but since they're liberals, they go with the liberal plan.
Or, and bear with me here, I’m just dicking around and there isn’t any further depth or meaning to my comment.
I said absolutely nothing to imply whether I’m liberal or if I have any issues with your political stance. But ok, assume whatever you want, I’m just here for the memes and shitposting.
I guess I just assumed that you guys might not take things so seriously or personally.
Honestly, you're welcome to be here and I'm happy you're around, as long as you respect that this is an explicitly anti-liberal space. Bear with us, if you get push-back it's likely because our liberalism detectors are far more finely tuned than nearly anyone else you'll have ever had discourse with (including possibly yourself?), and a lot of us will probably be fairly abrasive about it and not super clear on what specifically the liberalism that warranted the abrasiveness is. That's just how it works in a very enclosed and homogenously leftist space. If I butt heads I like to make it super clear what the heart of my beef is in clear detail for the sake of good discourse.
My original comment is pretty thoroughly informed by Mao's Combat Liberalism (2 minute read don't worry). My original comment will probably make a lot more sense with this as background.
Beef or no beef, thanks for stopping by and engaging in a civil fashion, and I genuinely mean it.
e: if you're also a dirty commie like us, sorry if linking combat liberalism seems patronizing, but also this is the sort of thing I'd like to be called out on if I did it as well, so I'm golden rule-ing here and an open to crit
the seeming insincerity is a mask. the truth is that we take everything extremely seriously at all times and make black humor to lighten the psychological load. you'll see the dynamic in action when you wander into one of our patented Struggle Session threads, wherein we argue the ethics of rock stacking, and the veganness of outdoor cats.
name a bigger and wetter president
