Remembering to look for and ignore folks with that telltale indicator has made the fediverse so much more enjoyable.
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ROFL, About 7 in 10 of my interactions with .ml are either positive or neutral
The vocal side of hexbear is almost completely unhinged.
Calling leftists "almost completely unhinged" is more of a self-tell than anything.
I mean....they didn't call "leftist" unhinged, they specified a specific group.
Hexbear does not equate to all leftist, and leftism does not equate to Hexbear.
The overwhelming majority of the time people have issues with Hexbear, it's the leftism.
This is essentially gaslighting. Almost every time I saw a reply that was so out of line toxic was from hexbear. Ex: "disgusting capitalist bootlicker. Kys." under a post saying we should vote for Biden. I can go find these actual words on the post that was titled "get out and vote!" with an image that said "not voting is a vote for trump" if you want.
Voting for a genocidal imperialist warmonger isn't leftist, so it makes sense that leftists oppose that. I'm not gaslighting, you're kinda proving my point, it's the leftism that's the issue.
This is the only thing I am responding to. Almost every comment on the defederation from hexbear thread said it was because of toxicity, not ideology. If a vegan says to someone "kys carnist, crawl into a hole and die," and gets banned, they didn't get banned for being vegan.
https://sh.itjust.works/post/4281207
For anyone who actually cares to look at all the people discussing their negative experiences with hexbear users.
Bonus meme: my identical comment made by someone else on the instance: https://sh.itjust.works/comment/2928583
Considering the sh.itjust.works user that made that thread in the first place is an incredibly toxic person that runs an anti-communist drama community, is a Zionist, etc, something tells me that the people claiming it's toxic are ones that had strong political disagreements to begin with.
That may be true in some part, though I think people on Hexbear tend to conflate any criticism of their personal takes on leftism as an attack on leftism as a whole. However, in this case he did specify the "vocal" aspect of Hexbear. So I think you're just being a little oversensitive.
I can't say I agree with there being anything particularly out of the norm with Hexbear beyond their leftism, so when people describe them as "almost completely unhinged" in particular, that sets off red flags.
Eh.... Imo they tend to be very small tent about their leftism. Anything that runs against the popular grain can get you blocked or get you told you're a dirty lib.
That's true of all groups, though, hsving a relatively cohesive range of acceptable opinions. What sets Hex apart is the leftism.
To different degrees.... Hexbear is particularly bad.
Lol, I'm a socialist.... I have a problem with Hexbear. They would much rather dunk on people than engage in dialogue and welcome people into the community.
Hexbear has obviously had issues with this to the point where the mod team has had to remove forums and put out warning to their own community to stop sexism and transphobia.
You're just conflating any criticism of the community as criticism of leftism, even when it's coming from people on the left. You know, the thing that stated this whole conversation.
Hexbear takes transphobia and sexism far more seriously than most other instances, you're acting like sexism and transphobia is a prominent issue on Hexbear. Hexbear can be quick to dogpile, but that's true here on this very thread as well from Lemmy.worlders (or at least attempts). I'm indeed identifying the core issue percieved with Hexbear as the leftism itself, the strict adherance to Marxism and anarchism.
I disagree...... When the mods handed out temporary bans for people people being sexist there were people calling them counterrevolutionary.
It's a prominent issue on most all of lemmy
Yeah..... Lemmy.world is trash. Not exactly a place I would like to compare a place I like too.
And I would say that can be true even in most cases, but we aren't talking about most cases. The accusation is that you are deflecting valid criticism by conflating all criticism against Hexbear as a general criticism against leftism. You know....the thing you continue to do.
Lol, anarchist get dogpiled on Hexbear constantly.
If you can't engage in honest discourse then I don't think this is going anywhere. Which is another problem with people on Hexbear and sometimes .ML, people are so set on "winning" an argument they utilize logical fallacies by rote.
Have a good one.
This is unfounded, show reciepts. Hexbear is extremely supportive of trans rights and takes sexism and transphobia very seriously. Further, anarchists don't get dogpiled, those who break the sectarianism rule do. I'm being honest, you just haven't backed up your claims.
Receipt
There have also been permanently deleted struggle sessions over the years that are basically the same.
And who decides when this has happened and over what?
Link seems to be broken. Either way, sectarianism is determined by the community, mods, and admins, like all other servers determine rules.
Link is not broken hexbear was down.
Ah, gotcha.
Tankies are so far from left they're basically MAGA.
"Tankie" is just a pejorative for those that uphold socialist countries as legitimate, and oppose the US empire. Communists are not anywhere close to MAGA, and pretending they are is sophistry.
That's not what tankie means, but nice try.
It absolutely is, it’s the McCarthyian vision of a spooky scary communist that wants to gobble up all of the babies. It's used against Marxists and anti-imperialists to terminate discussion.
nice try tankie.
If their problem wasn't with the communism but instead with the hatred they get, then Hexbear.net is good, which uses an allow-list for federation. It's a very chill instance to use.
Communism lol
Yep, Marxism is communist.
Yes exactly.
Not whatever that far right, conservative shite the tankies are smoking.
Considering "tankie" is just a pejorative for those who uphold socialism and oppose the US Empire, the "far right, conservative shite the tankies are smoking" is just Marxist theory.
That's not what tankie means, but nice try.
It absolutely is, it’s the McCarthyian vision of a spooky scary communist that wants to gobble up all of the babies. It's used against Marxists and anti-imperialists to terminate discussion.
Haha so wrong but please keep posting and voting on this post so people can see how tankies really are.
I think you're doing a great job of showing how anti-communists are, personally.
Please keep going, I'm close to climaxing.
If you have any alt accounts, please use them to downvote too.
No alts, your opinions are just unpopular, same with your wierd sexual harassment.
Yes that's the stuff. Now tell me something truly disgusting and abhorrent like Ukrainians deserve to die because they are Jewish Nazis or something else completely idiotic.
Keep inventing more strawmen to fight.
Lol, whoever had "strawman" on their tankie bingo card, please cross it off.
Not sure being proud of having no coherent points is a smart move, but you do you.
Ah yes, that should fix it.
Oh shoot I broke the rule in the meme!
Shutting out the voices of leftists is the rule in the meme? Sounds like we should break that.
Sorry cowbee, youve got no power here. I thought I had you blocked already. Leftist is fine, I draw the line at tankie. Blocked at instigator.
I don't have "power" anywhere. Having issues with Marxists is still generally a bad thing that should be a broken rule.