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Hexbear and ml are notorious for this type of behavior. I wouldn't take it personally. They just act like authoritarian leftwing views are the only valid viewpoint and are incredibly thin skinned, especially when it comes to China and Russia. Consider your ban an informal initiation to lemmy. I got banned from one of their communities the other day because of something I said about Kamala Harris that they disagreed with. I also got banned from a different instance because I wasn't nice when someone picked a fight.
Being confused about the rules for all of the different instances is normal. Just do what you're going to do and don't sweat it too much.
banned from .ml for criticizing Stalin ⛓️💥🕊️🕊️
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Can't say I've ever spent any time inside the hexbear community, but all the external examples I've seen from them, not once have I ever seen anything remotely left wing. What they spout is pro-Chinese government, pro-Russian government talking points, and 0-100 death threats.
Authoritarian left, not libertarian left. Very into iron fisted centralized government.
There's nothing left about Russia as it is today. Fully capitalist shithole.
China's weird, it's more like an auth center government IMO. Very much still promotes capitalism and mints tons of new billionaires every year, but also has some sensible social policies and superb public infrastructure. Means of production are still mostly privately owned, but land is government owned so billionaires are free to billionaire, but you can't pass your home down your family forever without paying for it again since the land it sits on is on a 70 year lease which you may or may not get to renew.
IMO for the .ml and hexbear types, it doesn't really seem to be about auth left, it just has to be auth and anti-western. Even auth right is fine as long as it's not a western country.
I’ve been here for like a year but it does feel like being in highschool sometimes lol. I gotta work on regulating my emotions better.
Personal growth is always good, but don't blame yourself for getting pissed at a tankie.
lol. No skin off my back. I just have friends in the area so I took the particular post a little personally.
Yeah, you just kinda have to not take lemmy that seriously. There may not be a bunch of crazy right wingers on here, but there are plenty of unhinged people still lol. Poke fun while it's fun, and if a conversation/argument stops being fun, just block and move on. No one's opinion really matters on here anyway.
My experience once was the first time I blocked a community.
Not for being called out on their pillory (did google get that translation right? The medieval thing you get thrown tomatoes at) but for for butthurt they became for saying China has as many corpses in the basement as the US and essentially being contra to their world views.
Instance gossip always reminds me of Mean Girls
You should not have to censor of moderate thoughts.
Huh. Interesting.
So the reveived reactions I gatheree werent even that exclusive.
In retrospect I did say some (excuse my lack for better words) words with a narrow world view lense, but the responses were anything but constructive.