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What's the deal with hexbear.net users
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this post was submitted on 08 Dec 2024
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Setting aside the content of their comments, I have often found their commenting style to be obnoxious or rude. They're free to do their thing of course, but since I'm not into it, I've blocked that instance. Over time I've seen fewer and fewer comments from hexbear users, and I imagine that's because some instances have chosen to defederate from them.
Yes, a lot of instances have blocked them, and I have yet to see a proper justification for it, other than that they confront people's beliefs. As for being obnoxious or rude, I would love to see some example exchanges that make people think that. Unfortunately that has been difficult to come by so far. From what I have seen, they call people liberals, fascists, etc, and in turn people call them tankies, etc. Seems fairly even to me so far.
I don't have sample exchanges at the ready, but I take issue with the gigantic stickers, the unwarranted confrontational tone, and the childish namecalling.
I understand that the gigantic stickers thing was actually a bug that has been fixed several Lemmy versions ago. I haven't seen a giant sticker/emoji from hexbear in quite a while. I can sort of understand what you're saying about the confrontational tone and namecalling though.
It's hard not to when their first message is a dismissive "another fucking lib 🙄". You try to be civil but every comment after that is along those lines. It only sounds fair when you don't consider the rest of the context.
Understood. If it is as you described and some of their responses were disproportionate relative to your posts, then that's regrettable.