Is it bots? Are those humans whos mission is to cause chaos? Is the weird behaviour caused by the creation of the concept of lemmy?
Somebody please explain to me wtf is going on.
They answer destructive comments, assuming shit, demanding shit. Are they trolls?
Are they being paid for causing chaos? It’s insane
Russian slash communist pieces of shit. Life is much easier if you just block hexbear.
Yeah but…how? How can you block from your account the whole of it? I keep getting communities belonging to hexbear popping into my feed, and I have to individually block each one of them. It’s rather tedious. Isn’t there a way to make a whole instance block from your account?
Voyager gives much blocking flexibility
Some apps might have nicer blocking features. Or move instances to one that is defederated from them
I think most popular apps (boost, voyager if i remember, etc.) have this feature. I dont believe lemmy has this natively.
Note that blocking instances doesn’t mean you wont see comments from there. It only works on communities.
To be honest though, most of the problematic people only comment on specific posts/communities so blocking certain keywords and instances should fare pretty well.
Jerboa does, but not sure about doing it through a browser.
What had me block the instance was how the majority of Hexbear posts and users I was encountering initially was how annoyingly spammy they were. Acting like Lemmy was Twitch chat, spamming giant ugly reaction stickers everywhere, literally behaving like 12 year olds.
Then I also started to notice the far-right authoritarian simping buried under all that chaos.
If I see a comment with 12 replies, all from the same instance, all just the same emoji over and over, I don’t care that it’s small, that’s spam to me. They have their culture, so let them have fun. But I’m not part of it, so leave me out, it’s annoying. I think both of these are fair takes.
Yeah, as the other comment says, my understanding is the stickers are the size of an emoji on their instance. Something about either federation or the client on their server messes it up. Maybe some clients have fixed it, but mine (Sync) has not. Maybe it’s unfixable if you aren’t from their instance.
Yes! The fucking stickers are so annoying.
Demented illogical people. Also angry and bloodthirsty. Best to not interact. Waste of time.
Hexbear is sweet. Those people care more about the average human than liberals could ever imagine. If you dont understand them, try learning instead of being confused forever. I post this knowing I’ll get dunked by .world, but this is what solidarity looks like.
Ah spoken like a true Tankie.
They care about the average human
Just 2 months ago they were celebrating the death of inocent civilians in 9/11 as if it was a holiday.
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my ex and i incorporated 9/11 jokes into our sex life five years ago. it’s been long enough
I don’t mind jokes on the topic. It definitely wasn’t some jokes, tho, they were actively celebrating it, wishing each other a happy 9/11 and hoping for a similar event to happen soon.
I don’t know, for me it went past the “just a prank, bro” scale.
Hahahaha, right, right, which is exemplified with them telling people to die, right?
Take your gaslighting elsewhere.
Unfortunately we are supposed to be circle jerking the same opinion here, didn’t you get the memo?
you should go ask them
They have a zero-tolerance policy for political viewpoints that differ from their own. That becomes a breeding ground for an extremely toxic echo chamber.
I have been doing the “The Will to Change: Men, Masculinity, and Love” book club at menby@hexbear.net recently which has been my only real interaction with hexbear. The book club has been great so far and if anyone wants to talk about feminism and masculinity should join.
There are a lot of in-group signaling across their own users which mostly shows up with acronyms, specific phrases and calling everyone comrade. This hasn’t been that difficult in the book club which is long form text and discussion and everyone is respectful and nice. That being said I have blocked a few communities at hexbear because I have found them annoying and taking over my feed. So like everything here at Lemmy I had curate my own experience
Nope, just good ol’ fashioned communists! Beware the red scare!
Are you new to the internet?
I’ve had contact to single toxic people. But never encountered such a mass of such toxicity and to suchan extend.
The community is based on fandom of a podcast that champions antagonizing liberals.
They encourage vocally expressing disagreement and disapproval and don’t have downvotes to facilitate that.
This runs counter to most instances that tend to prefer disagreement and disapproval be expressed quietly through downvotes.
So they tend to culture clash.
So liberals like quietly shutting up people they disagree with and leftists shout at each other to get their points across…
Sounds about right.
Hexbear isn’t being paid for anything, they are largely made up of Anarchists and Marxist-Leninists. Hexbear has been unafilliated with Lemmy for years before integrating with Lemmy a year ago.
You might be seeing their zero tolerance policy for liberalism in action, but if you genuinely want to know what their users are about, just visit it. Just hop on over to Hexbear.net and scroll the news megathread and whatnot, try to understand what’s going on.
Finally, I want to question why you believe anyone would be paid to mess with Lemmy, moreover when the lead developers are aligned fairly closely on ideological lines. If they were here to “cause chaos,” why would the devs support them ideologically? To ruin their own network? That narrative is just a wild hypothesis.
Daily dotworld self-soothing thread.
Ah yes, another “insightful” comment of yet again an .ml user.
Please reply only if you believe that:
All responsible server admins have them defederated. Hate speech and genocide denial, that is almost certainly against the law in Canada, Germany, and other places. We defederated lemmygrad for the same reason.
My instance is hosted in Germany and does not seem to defederate from hexbear, I’m subscribed to !history@hexbear.net from this account.
I don’t want it to. I think instance admins should be defederating from spambot farms, but not much more than that; if there’s a chance some of its users want to read it, they should allow its users to.
That is, I want my instance admins to engage in moderation, but not censorship. I think defederating from extremist politics (whether far-left or far-right) is usually censorship, not moderation.
Hexbear isn’t driven by real people, it’s a politically-motivated, organized effort to spread disinformation.
That’s not what censorship means. As per defenderating from spambot farms… That’s half of hexbear really
If that is so, I have yet to notice it in the wild.
What do you mean?
You’re going to have to be a bit more specific. What’s what needs clarification?
What do you mean “half of Hexbear is spambot farms?”
So basically spambots are fine as long as they are spouting something political?
I specifically chose my instance because it’s not blocked or being blocked by too many instances.
I’d rather judge myself what I want to be exposed to.
I guess server admins who haven’t defederated them are either with them ORRR they put more responsibility towards their users.
In your instance’ case, db0 has said IIRC that the Anarchists on Hexbear, while not aligning 100% with them, are generally good and worth being federated with.
There is an instance block feature you can use in the settings as a user, that seems to work pretty well for not seeing hexbear stuff
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I got a bit of harassment from hexbear users when I started using Lemmy, haven’t in a while now though, I have blocked around 30 of them and instance block
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Or they live in a country where genocide denial is legal. I live in Canada and my server is in Canada. I’m not willing to take the risk so my users can interact with assholes.
I thought the same thing, but got worn down by the constant negativity and rage.
I think you just want to be protected from opinions of others and you call it chaos because your mind can’t handle it.
And what’s even more interesting, the more sheltered you live your life, the more chaotic you will think the world is.
Good news is that if you stay on Lemmy.world, you will be protected from it. :)
Ah, a hexbearian found this post
Uh, no, hexbear is fucking crazy lol.
Objectively it’s not, since it’s an opinion that comes from you as a consumer.
I never said it wasn’t subjective. Someone or something being crazy is a subjective agreement of the majority. And those bitches are crazy.
No he’s right, they actively engage aggressively with anyone who does not share their views and it’s pretty unsubtle. Ignore and block them, you can’t have honest discussions with them so why bother?
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I was once an edgy online 14 year old idealist, my behavior was identical.
