edit: muting this thread, goodbye.
Me; new here thinking “hexbear” is the furry server… Oh…
Well I was half right
Don’t have a problem with what instance you’re on as long as you’re respectful I’ll be respectful back
I totally agree. But that instance is slightly notorious for brigading threads.
A brigade is when you’re one of the oldest and most active instances and continue to use the federated website.
hi it’s me here to brigade a post that appeared in my feed
You have brigaded my inbox. Now you will receive one in return
mods halp they’re doing a brigaderinoI’d help, but i’ve forgotten my password to my original account… I think i made one when it was chapo.chat, so it’s gone right?
should still exist
If you could dig it up, it would still work
We just have a lot of active users. Brigading doesn’t happen when the feeds show up organically.
I get what you mean, and I see the brigading emoji (all/active), but I do feel like hex and grad are both very argumentative, and I don’t usually see you guys participating in other non-political communities or threads either which leaves a bad taste in my mouth.
hex and grad are both very argumentative
i mean we are communists…honestly if you think we’re bad towards y’all you should see some of our more heated discussions amongst ourselves; the only people leftists are more vicious towards than fascists and their enablers are leftists who very slightly disagree with them lol.
don’t usually see you guys participating in other non-political communities
possibly that’s because we have comms for a lot of those things (sports, games, movies, anime, etc) and tend to use those instead but that’s just a guess. i won’t speak for anyone else but i find a lot of the memes and stuff on lemmy are a little reddit-flavored for me so i don’t usually engage (since i don’t want to just go in and shit on people having a harmless good time or w/e)
Not to overwhelm you with comments, but most Hexbear and Grad users tend to stay on Hex and Grad for non-political content, funny enough. Check out Hex’s general megathreads, or the gaming comm, etc.
As someone who made a Hexbear alt (not the other way around), it’s a far more pleasant space to relax, IMO. Plus, Communists tend to all be political nerds to begin with.
It’s infinitely better for political stuff too.
Interesting post subjects and comments. (more on grad)
lemm.ee or .world is 95% "look what stupid irrelevant thing Musk or Trump said now! "
Not much different from any MSM. Annoying and boring mostly.Yep, agreed!
That makes sense, but it does give the impression that they only brigade.
Though, I can’t think of a single time I have seen a hexbear user outside of hexbear on a non-political thread.I see them usually on non-political Lemmy.ml threads, if you avoid them then that explains it. Hexbear keeps a small federation list to protect its marginalized users from harrassment, and also to carve out a uniquely Leftist space.
I thought hex originally federated with everyone, but when they started refederating they chose an allow-list. Am i wrong? I know that lemmy.world blocked them, which is where a lot of non-political content is.
They got like 6 people in here doing just that.
You can just admit you don’t know how federation works
Hey man, I think you’re taking this slightly too seriously.
I undestand federation, I have been on the fediverse for two-three years, and have built stuff using activitypub.
If you think they’re “brigading” you clearly don’t understand how federation works
How come they don’t “brigade” normal threads? only political ones.
90% of threads are pretty boring. Most of the memes posted on Lemmy are the kinds of things I would expect from /r/memes. On the political threads people often make claims that are simply false (i.e. claiming that Marxists or ‘tankies’ love the Russian Federation) so naturally Hexbear will show up to contradict that stuff. You’d be hard pressed to find us organizing “brigades,” we literally just have a unified ideological line that we’re experienced in defending so when we see something that’s easily disproven we disprove it.
Hexbear is a higly politicised instance, it makes sense that people from there are mainly interested in politics and would mostly interact with those posts.
They don’t “brigade” anything, they’re federated
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Oh, my sweet summer child.
While fine in concept, there are certain things that shouldn’t be respected, and that’s where the
happens
LPT - you don’t have to give any fucks about who or what “hexbear.net” is, instead you can have a life.
I’m glad my feed has been pretty drab with them gone
gotta brighten that feed up!Same, but I can’t seem to get Voyager to actually do instance blocking. It has the option, but it seems to not work.
I’m gay
I can’t believe you guys invented the gay.
Ay, same!
Pan gang here 🏳️🌈
Hello!
You guys have so many sickos emojis. Every day I see a new one.
my personal favreally wish this submission was added, but never got included so far
A damn shame, it’s great!
Honestly was a major factor when I decided to finally make a Hexbear account.
You know that you can block instances yourself? Like you don’t have to be forced to see their stuff. I think some of y’all enjoy whinging about shit for the sake of it.
welcome back, glorious pigposters
However will lemmy deal with dissenting or socialist comments? Oh bless my pure centrist heart!
connumism
