Also having to have “the talk” so they don’t get freaked out when they first see those instances.
I love that you can just interact with people who’ve been brainwashed by different propaganda from yourself on here. It can give you perspective on your own inherent biases, even if they’re not as severe as giving the ML Pass to dictators who are not even vaguely communist.
Blocking hexbear has nothing to do with a difference in ideas. Hexbear gets blocked because it hosts communities of some of the most obnoxious, unrepentant trolls known to the internet. Lemmygrad and .ml get blocked because said trolls made alts when instances got fed up and defederated from hexbear.
It’s like the Khmer Rouge’s version of 2004s era /b/. There is nothing to be gained from interacting with those people.
Ok this is starting to get really pathetic. At this point they just want to antagonize us for the sake of it.
I'm not gonna pretend we haven't been a bit aggressive at times, we have, but is this shit still really happening? Even when I was still on Lemmygrad a bit before migrating here I wasn't seeing many Hexbears being aggressive towards libs unless deserved like when a lib starts being aggressive first.
To be fair I mostly interact with the trans mega and use the local feed, but really? We are literally seeing an increasing rise in US' imperialism, alongside huge trans and general LGBT rights violations in the west and these people prefer to focus on the leftists that constantly calls that out rather than the empire?
Even comrade Cowbee is a common target for these people despite them being extremely patient and polite, there's no winning with these libs.
I think 90% of the origin stories for these “Hexbearians are malicious trolls” tales from Lemmayo.world types are Cowbee showing up somewhere and giving a well-documented, calm rebuttal to their anti-socialist propaganda.
a lot of the time it's them saying something unhinged like "china is cutting off the feet of babies and sewing them on women's breasts" and you ask them to provide a source and they paste something from radio free asia that says "china makes strides in breast cancer prevention, but at what cost, human rights group says" and then you point out that none of this is about baby feet.
and that's how hexbearians become malicious trolls.
Also if we were to troll, why the fuck would we not simply create accounts on one of the other 5000 instances with open signups?
These divas must be using "brigading" and "trolling" to mean "was rude to me after organically stumbling upon my post" .... no other way this could be even remotely grounded in reality.
I rarely venture out of explicitly socialist communities if I'm not on Lemmy.ml/Lemmygrad.ml/hexbear.net, which makes it funnier I suppose. People are less irrational in real life than online.
I mean what are posters on world etc looking for exactly? You’d think they could just go to Reddit where they came from, but they left because Reddit sucks and is diluting their product to the dismay of power users. Why they do that? Because the capitalist system currently works by speculation under the total rule of finance capital, resulting in crapification. If they were literate, these Reddit mods would be quite upset.
They want hipster reddit