It’s already turned into a shitshow, they’ve been brigading enmasse, downvoting and trolling just like they used to. Guess some things never change, eh?
Boy, I sure do remember when the beehaw admins were fussing with the Lemmy developers (which for the record I actually kind of take the Lemmy devs’ side of), and the Lemmy devs held up Hexbear as an instance that has been with us since the beginning, the ones who were really worthy of honors of being true believers as far as what Lemmy should stand for. Unlike beehaw and their moderation philosophy. That was a super normal and defensible thing for them to say.
at least the hexies do it with their hex accounts unlike the ml lot that smurf as other instances
Don’t worry, they’ll get banned on their Hexbear accounts and switch back to their .ml and lemm.ee sockpuppets to continue their shitty behaviour soon enough.
I’m all for shitting on hxbr but that instance literally cannot use the downvote function. It’s more likely that hexbear-related whining is just more unpopular on the non-tankie instances than you think.
You are aware most Hexbears have alts on instances that don’t have downvotes disabled though, right? They do so to get around the wide defederation of their instance.
Sure, but that wouldn’t have changed when hexbear re-federated.
What you see now as far as their downvote activity on lemmy is what it has always been since the reddit migration, even before. At least I see no reason why it would have changed due to their defed/refed activity
Please pray for those of us who mod political communities that Hexbear federates with 🙏
Get them to ban your account. Then their users will not be able to see your posts or comments, to reply to. Ironically, the best gift they gave me.
EDIT: Goddamnit! They unbanned me just now.
That’s actually an awesome idea. Not having to deal with another childish ML screaming “anarkiddie” when you point out that China isn’t communist. Or the breathless “but-but-but someday they will be!!! 1!” Because as we all know, those with power love to give it up.
You misunderstand them. For many such campists. China is already perfectly fine.
Fair warning: You need to actually be dangerous to their thought bubble to eat a ban. Just insulting them won’t suffice, they’ll leave that up to make criticism of their position look irate and irrational, what you need to do is to go to asklemmygrad or such and get both up- and downvotes. Make them question.
They were really chomping at the bit to ban me for months, because I constantly criticize “left unity” and deny that anarchists can collab with MLs with any systematic significance. (You should see how mald they got at some of my memes. Talking about 1000+ comment pile on!)
As a result, they kept posting “dunks” about our instance in their subs full of bad faith and hypocrisy, which I felt compelled to defend against, but I stuck to the subject at hand, so they had no excuse to ban me. Eventually they just banned me from one of their dunk comms for “liberalism” and deleted all my defenses of our instance that I had been writing for hours. That injustice triggered my ASD and I called that mod a “hypocritical PoS” in one DM, so they finally had an excuse 😅.
You might be able to force them to if you threaten to DMCA them for hosting your own copyrighted content. Posts and comments on Lemmy are technically literature which is copyright protected, and while you give your own instance license to host them via their Terms of service, you don’t necessarily give the same permission to remote instances like Hexbear.
That fun little loophole with how federation works, you can explicitly request instances exclude you or it can really suck for them. Lemmy should probably have a built-in option for this to exclude yourself in this manner but don’t count on the devs to add it unless people start DMCAing Hexbear and ML to “opt-out” of federation with those servers.
I do have to ask, if the admins here are banned from Hexbear, why are we (dbzer0) federated with them?
Not an attempt at a gotcha, I’m just curious why we are.
Because I’m not trying to be a BDFL. If people want to defed from hexbear, they can ask for a defed vote.
I instance banned that person for 2 weeks (13 days expiration). Told blaze to kill himself because… he criticizied ML moderation. Oh the horror.
What a fucking ghoul. The hexbear admins do bumfuck-nothing about their users, so we have to deal with their trash. Yes yes i know there are some good users there, but in general it’s just not worth it. They have horrible moderation.
I’d love to defederate but a lot of users would like to stay (ie they’re bad but have some good content) so i made this issue to remedy the problem: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/5578 (not just for hexbear, ml or etc; also some other instances but that’s besides the point)
(PS: @blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com i hope you don’t mind me using your screenshot, i can delete if you want)
Honestly I was kinda sad to see hexbear posts again popping up on my feed, even though I enjoyed witnessing their 🤡 shit before. Just decided that my feed is happier without them and blocked the instance in Voyager app
That’s why i made the github issue c; nutomic seems interested, hopefully it will come with lemmy 1.0. It’ll be a win-win for all of us.
If only instance blocking was properly built into lemmy itself. I wonder if summit has that feature.
That one person disagreeing with you has some interesting takes. They don’t seem to grasp the concept of users of an instance disagreeing with each other, only of instances disagreeing with other instances like rival hiveminds.
I don’t know this to be the case, but I’ve long assumed that the average age on Hexbear is about 15, and have yet to find any reason to assume otherwise.
Yeah I love the demands for revolutionary violence from people who have never been in a fight, let alone killed someone. Simply expressing that killing people, because I think I am right, is a last resort, got a bunch of .ml people on my case. I straight asked if they had killed anyone, or been in a situation where violence directed towards them put their life at risk. They all (like 5 people nothing crazy) said no, yet insisted they were up to the task, and knew they would be fine because it was necessary.
Big “if I was there when that mass shooter showed up, the shooter would have been the only dead” energy.
Now these are the friendly interactions I almost started to miss.
