I don’t mind the posts and the communities, but so many of the users are insufferable.
They poison the well for any cool person who might be registered there.
To be fair, you have to have very high IQ to understand Hexbear.
Just make fun of Russia or laugh at them and call them a bot for saying “zionist” too much. They will ban you from hexbear, then you block them and never have to hear from them again.
Yes, you could skip the first step … but where is the fun in that?
I kind of like seeing the posts tho, but the commenter are so hostile. like, is there a button to block the commenters but not the instance? that would be a nice feature to implement :D
Virtually any time I get viciously attacked by someone on Lemmy it’s almost exclusively someone from either Hexbear, Lemmygrad, blahaj or infosec.
I’ve noticed that Lemmy and other alternative platforms tend to harbor extremes.
Still better than the typical crap you see on reddit. I hate to say it, but the influx of normal/trashy people is worse than the bots. Gimme someone with enough independent thought to consider themselves a third wave communist or whatever.
I imagine most people here are Reddit refugees, and I guess being that principled could be seen as a kind of extremism in itself. I don’t really consider myself the most non-confrontational person either.
I mean, blahaj are understandably defensive; it’s a mostly gender fluid/trans instance and they are very much under the microscope right now. I give my trans buddies more leeway to be angry right now, they are going through a lot, and I assume the strangers on blahaj feel the same. It might be directionless anger sometimes, but that comes out when you are constantly under stress. But yeah, I understand what you are saying <3
I’ve seen the db0 admins getting a little power trippy. Like instance ban for a conversation in a community on a different instance. Following all rules and being respectful the entire time. Im happy to respect the db0 rules and fedi sovereignty on their instance. I don’t think instance bans for off instance activities is right.
Infosec, really? I haven’t noticed that trend. Maybe I just wasn’t paying attention to the user’s instance enough. I absolutely did notice the others you mentioned, though, but that may be because there are more bad eggs than good in those places lol
I don’t remember having issues with anyone from there for a while but there was a time that there was several of them over a short period of time.
Later last year, I did notice an uptick in Lemmy hostility, across the board. It’s calmed down significantly, though, around January of this year or so. Now, I don’t know about the instances that my home instance blocks (hexbear being among them, thankfully). I’ve generally had good experiences with infosec users in the past, which is why I moved instances to here. Sorry that hasn’t been your experience; people can be assholes.
I don’t really care where users are from, and I think it causes fractures and fragmentation across lemmy.
In a void without enemies, we make our own, it seems.
I like hexbear, I dont mind the posts, but the users are like rick and morty fans, they ruin it.
If you don’t think the far left are your enemies, then you haven’t been sent to one of their camps yet.
Hello, fed or propaganda victim.
Who’s supposed to be the far left in this scenario? It sure as hell isn’t hexbear with their unwavering support of both the Chinese and Russian governments.
Isn’t it enough to just… disagree with someone?
If they’re that insufferable, block them yourself.
The problem is they don’t stay blocked, blocking the instance at user level does not block the users, defederating leaves the loophole of their posts still popping up on all when an instance that aligns with them crossposts them, also they are constantly creating alts on other instances to keep spreading shit.
People keep on saying this but I haven’t noticed it. Am I just immune to being greatly annoyed by the delivery if the intentions are right? Show me where the hexbear touched you, OP!
Your instance isn’t federated with hexbear, you won’t see them
I’m sorry, I’m new to Lemmy. Thank you for taking the time to check, lol. Time to check them out and see if I’m annoying enough to fit in! 😅
you want nothing to do with these insufferable people.
my instance is federated with them, but I have every single community of theirs I’ve ever seen blocked now.
my instance is federated with them, but I have every single community of theirs I’ve ever seen blocked now.
Wait, we can instance block nowadays, why going through every community?
you say this to a weary soul that has wanted this more than anything reaches up like a parched and desiccated infected from 28 Days Later
I done tried it on Summit and it dont do shit some weird bug i reckon
Thank you for your concern, honestly. I’ll still try and see how insufferable they are, although they asked me about animal liberation and GSM (?) on the application so I have a feeling you’re right to warn me, lol.
Glutimate, Sodiummono.
are you sure it was GSM? thats a cellular network protocol as far as I know
you sound defensive for someone with no skin in the game :D
I’m sorry, OP, I’ve just read that a couple too many times and I truly wonder what the reasoning behind it is. Is it just American right-wingers complaining? Cause, whatever, America is going full isolationist so we only have to listen to them for a decade or so before they firewall everything and Lemmy goes full German, lol. Or is it something else?
The american right wingers comment was offhand and mostly a joke. like another user said, it was probably a bot. Or, it was a user I annoyed who is a mod on a small instance, and they banned me out of frustration. they might have even been right wing, who knows?
Sounds like there’s something behind your comment, if you have a problem with anything I’ve said, just come out and say it.
Stop feeding the troll, for crying out loud. Look at their comment history. Look at the account’s name. Can you guess that they’re arguing in bad faith?
Social media literacy died in 2020, I swear.
I don’t think they are a troll, I just think they are very poorly informed, and possibly stupid. But thenks for the headsup, I checked their comment history after reading your comment, I see how you came to that conclusion. “Never attribute to malice what can easily be explained by stupidity”
You know what? I’m about to say it: I don’t care that you broke your elbow.
oh you’ve run out of things to say but you still want to complain? sorry, I’m not your therapist. one more dumb comment and I’m done :D
