Can we not devolve into shit talking other communities and childish in-fighting? Drama like this is exactly what made Reddit awful, and I hate seeing stuff like this here.
Don’t get me wrong, I’m not condoning toxic communities (as many on here claim hexbear is). If your community actively ascribes to promoting hate, for instance, it should be removed/locked/etc. I am, however, making the distinction that we don’t need to witch-hunt other communities because we don’t agree with their policies or how they are run.
Downvote, unsubscribe, block, and move on.
Hexbear does actively promote hate towards any non-socialist political ideologies, and towards any trans- and homophobic people. They’re not entirely wrong, it’s the means they choose that i hate. They’re not reducing the amount of hate, only increasing it. Also, seeing such level of hostility they have is depressing.
Drag disagrees. Zero mod and admin accountability was what made Reddit awful. Getting your account banned for being slightly left wing and having a robot deny your appeals sucked. Communities like r/fatpeoplehate and r/the_donald and r/politicalcompassmemes that took years for admins to address were the worst parts of reddit.
Okay, I’m trying to piece the story together. So, there was a post linking to more secure and decentralised platforms for trans people to use following the US election. I’m not entirely sure which part of it is the extremist pipeline. Did you specifically mean hexbear? I heard some bad stuff about it so yeah idk
Hexbear is another instance that’s just full of tankies and terminally online idiots. Most other instances have them banned because all they do is cause trouble
Hexbear is a very toxic instance with mods that allow their users to harass others. Both hexbear and .ml are filled with tankie users and mods, which is another reason to avoid those places
I actually saw these comments before they were deleted.
It was a post listing a bunch of resources for trans people to use to digital protect themselves in light of the election. One example is it suggested Matrix instead of Discord.
On the list it included a couple trans-friendly Lemmy instances. IIRC the 3 instances listed were from blahaj.zone, lemmy.ml, and hexbear. A couple people commented that they liked the idea but didn’t like the inclusion of hexbear.
:/ How very ungenerous of them (not surprised)
Maybe on the surface, but it’s blocked by this instance (and many others) for good reasons.
It’s a snake pit.
How very extremist of you
