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:
- Spamming bullshit links to the pig poop picture: https://lemmy.cas/u/[email protected]
- General trolling: https://lemmy.ca/comment/2146513
- Posting the pig poop emoji repeatedly and not adding value to discussions: https://lemmy.ca/u/[email protected] https://lemmy.ca/u/[email protected]
- Calling for exections of landlords: https://lemmy.ca/comment/2154580
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.
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I said this in the last thread announcing defederation from them…
Freedom of speech doesn’t mean an obligation to listen.
Good for you! I saw some of their posts pop up in my feed and had to block them too. Just too much edgelord stupidity.
What’s wrong with hating landlords?
Calling for execution of anyone seems a bit extreme to me.
Gotta start somewhere.
Probably not by whipping out the guillotine. There’s a few reasonable steps before that.
This is why our rights are constantly being eroded.
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.
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!
I’m all for differing viewpoints but they were just trolls.
I browsed a bit there. All I saw was trolls planning to troll. They won’t be missed.
Federation is working.
Until they decide to ‘raid’ instances and start their circus again.
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.
I hope the admins on those raided instances are more effective than the admins on hexbear were.
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.
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).
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.
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.
Their community policy is explicitly against the actions described in this post.
Blatant indifference to their own community policies is an excellent reason to defederate.
There’s always the far better-behaved Lemmygrad for those who want a more diverse prospective without the toxicity that hexbear brings.
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?
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
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.
Thanks for the input! Discussing it with the other admins.
I noticed a few of them posting Russian propaganda the other day. Nothing of value was lost.
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.
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.
I might have to make a new account here. I made a comment and then edited it to address a Q_Anon adjacent hexbear user that replied to me. It’s really strange. They say they are extreme leftists on their sidebar, but their politics are anti-Western, which puts them essentially with NK, China, and Russia, which are an authoritarian brand of communist or fascist that prosecutes and imprisons trans, LGBTQ+, etc,.
At this point I think they are simply trying to get reactions and shit stir for lulz. Getting told I should die because I corrected a Hexbear’s use of misinformation is surreal. I never thought an extreme Leftist or five would openly and brazenly support a regime that literally made supporting LGBTQ+ stuff a crime only a year or two ago. It’s wild.
You made the right decision. Hexbear users aren’t here to discuss anything in good faith, they’re here to brigade and harass. That’s all I’ve seen from them ever since they federated.
I’ve mixed feelings about this. But I support the admins, generally, and will assume they are acting in good faith.
This is sort of like an email provider getting their domain blacklisted. Yes, it hurts some legitimate users, but they are a source of spam and crap and the nuclear option is legitimate.
In my opinion, good choice. It had to be done. Won’t be missed.
