Sorry (🍁) we did this without making a post, but after receiving several complaints we defederated from hexbear.net yesterday.

Here’s a few quick examples of poor conduct by hexbear users:

They warned their users to behave themselves, but that didn’t work: https://hexbear.net/post/280770?scrollToComments=false

Please read and respect the rules of the community instance in which you are posting/commenting. Please try to keep the dirtbag lib-dunking to hexbear itself. Do not follow the Chapo Rules of Posting, instead try to engage utilizing informed rhetoric with sources to dismantle western propaganda. Posting the western atrocity propaganda and pig poop balls is hilarious but will pretty quickly get you banned and if enough of us do it defederated. Realize that you are a representative of the hexbear instance when you post on other instances.

  • Omega_Haxors@lemmy.mlEnglish
    0·
    6 months ago

    There’s always the far better-behaved Lemmygrad for those who want a more diverse prospective without the toxicity that hexbear brings.

  • jerkface@lemmy.caEnglish
    0·
    20 days ago

    I have been visiting hexbear recently. I have discovered that there is a great deal of content there that is important to me and that I have been “protected” from. It’s clearly a legitimate instance with a dedicated administration team. The Lemmiverse is moving fast and changing dramatically. Would @[email protected], @[email protected], et al consider reviewing this decision now that it is about a year later?

    • Shadow@lemmy.caOPMEnglish
      0·
      20 days ago

      Always open to reconsidering things. Can you give some examples of the content you’re missing?

      Tbh when I go look at their local feed it just seems like all shitposts

      • jerkface@lemmy.caEnglish
        0·
        20 days ago

        For example, c/food is the best general population food forum I’ve ever seen for my particular needs. A lot of the non-vegan parts of the site is not just tolerant but considerate to vegans. That’s frigging unheard of. I don’t know what the big deal with shit posters is, but that is hardly the only or defining feature of the culture.

        I feel like if you wade into a community you’re not a member of and don’t understand looking for shit posts, a lot of things are going to look like shit posts.

  • Rob Bos@lemmy.caEnglish
    0·
    1 year ago

    I noticed a few of them posting Russian propaganda the other day. Nothing of value was lost.

    • Murvel@lemm.eeEnglish
      0·
      1 year ago

      They absolutely do. They are freaks of nature.

      Essentially communists who support the war crimes committed in Ukriane and the idea of Russian imperialism since it somehow in their twisted little minds equates to a Soviet Union born again.

      Wrap your head around that.

      • astral_avocado@programming.devEnglish
        0·
        1 year ago

        I still just don’t understand why they defend Russia or China, I don’t think there’s a single state mechanism you can point to that’s truly functionally communistic.

    • lud@lemm.eeEnglish
      0·
      1 year ago

      Calling for execution of anyone seems a bit extreme to me.

    • astral_avocado@programming.devEnglish
      0·
      1 year ago

      No calls for violence seems like a simple rule. And not every landlord is greedy mcshitstain with 50 properties, many of them are a single family with their starter home rented out, or a couple renting out their extra room.

      • ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        0·
        1 year ago

        Communists don’t care for that distinction, they believe all landlords (even non-exploitative ones like you mentioned) are inherrently exploitative and therefore deserving of death. Yes, this applies to you even if you just rent out a room, but don’t worry, money won’t exist and everything will be free!

  • lazylion_ca@lemmy.caEnglish
    0·
    1 year ago

    I browsed a bit there. All I saw was trolls planning to troll. They won’t be missed.

    Federation is working.

      • ArxCyberwolf@lemmy.caEnglish
        0·
        1 year ago

        Oh, they already are raiding and brigading. Take a look at any post remotely mentioning China, Russia or Ukraine on lemmy.ml or any other instance still federated with them. 90% of the comments will be Hexbear users trolling, harassing people or spreading disinformation, shutting out any real discussion.

      • MapleEngineer@lemmy.caEnglish
        0·
        1 year ago

        I hope the admins on those raided instances are more effective than the admins on hexbear were.

  • 'M' as in 'MANCY'@lemmy.caEnglish
    0·
    1 year ago

    Good work! Thank you. Hexbear users are trolls. They’re not in it for discussion in good faith. I’ve blocked a few offenders here and there but honestly I think the culture there is so toxic that we’re better off not being federated with them.

    • randint@lemm.eeEnglish
      0·
      1 year ago

      100% agree that they are trolls. They flood any China news posts (that’s not on lemmy.world) with a truckload of pro-China comments, taking advantage of the fact that a sizeable portion of Lemmy users won’t be able to see and downvote them. Whenever someone replies to them with well-thought-out arguments supporting “the western authoritarians,” half of them replies with huge and ugly emojis, while the other half parrots more Chinese propaganda (that actually sound well-written if you disregard the fact that China is an oppressive regime).

  • zephyreks@lemmy.caEnglish
    0·
    1 year ago

    This seems like it could have been solved at the instance level by banning some emojis… So I guess I’m confused?

    I still don’t agree with censoring political views that we disagree with. It’s a slippery slope, especially when these are REAL people that DO exist. They deserve to have their voice heard, even if it’s so they can be shit on.

    Edit: is there no way to block individual users without defederation? It sounds like taking the nuclear option against a few bad actors. We should want to have our worldview challenged since that’s a core component of democracy.

    • yata@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      0·
      1 year ago

      views that we disagree with

      a few bad actors

      Please stop with all those disingenous takes. OP makes it quite clear that it was not based on differences in viewpoint but toxic and trolling behaviour. And it is not “a few bad actors” from that instance behaving in such a way, it is everyone, since that is their publicly stated main purpose for existing.

      • zephyreks@lemmy.caEnglish
        0·
        1 year ago

        Their community policy is explicitly against the actions described in this post.

        • jerkface@lemmy.caEnglish
          0·
          1 year ago

          Blatant indifference to their own community policies is an excellent reason to defederate.