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I'm posting because originally when I was looking to create a Lemmy account I came across Hexbear. I read the code of conduct and TOS and to me it seemed like a great fit for me. However, after creating an account there, it seems pretty defederated.

Anyway I was curious on the happenings over there, because they have some cute custom emojis over there... but if there's a reason they're so defederated, I might just pretend i never made an account there

EDIT: omg I just found out this instance has cute blob emojis too :3 ablobcatrave

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[–] ada@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 5 hours ago

Ok, this isn't really blahaj related and I think it has run its course.

[–] greenshirtdenimjeans@sh.itjust.works 25 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

Do you prefer North Korea and refer to South Korea as ‘Occupied Korea’? Those are the types of people on hexbear, lemmygrad, and .ml

[–] Khlo@lemmy.blahaj.zone 14 points 10 hours ago

... no. I was banned from r/pyongyang on reddit lol

[–] thezeesystem@lemmy.blahaj.zone 14 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago) (5 children)

I know some of the lore but people have already answered that, so give you my experience, I joined it see what it's like, I reported something that broke there ToS, I was then thrown on a community called "dunk tank" or something like that.

I was new to lemmy and it said in what I thought messages was that I got a message and then I responded to it

Apparently it's against that community rules to respond to it

I was permanently banned

So, yeah hexbear is capitalist bootlickers who mask them selfs as communists.

Although tbh. Lemmy.world seems very capitalist loving but at least I don't get instant banned because I'm new. Never had any problems with Lemmy.ml in my experience, but also I have some problems with shit just works (or whatever its called)

[–] Edie@lemmy.ml 5 points 5 hours ago

thezeesystem

There is an account with that name on hexbear, it has a completely blank modlog, or are you talking about some other account?

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[–] cm0002@lemmy.world 31 points 10 hours ago

Hexbear, Lemmygrad, .ml are all part of the Tankie Triad. The real rules are all unwritten and you'll never know them till your posts get removed and you're banned

Their support for trans is paper thin at best, this is what Nutomic, head dev, biggest Tankie and lead admin of .ml has to say about the trans community

[–] recursive_recursion@lemmy.ca 37 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago) (1 children)

Lemmy.ml, lemmygrad, and hexbear are the 3 most well known instances to house pro CCP and Putin loyalists

I'd recommend just blocking those 3 as you'll generally have a better time on the fediverse.

If you check !yepowertrippinbastards@lemmy.dbzer0.com you'll find that the moderators themselves are the reasons why those instances are toxic

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[–] bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 48 points 11 hours ago (3 children)

They are tankies. They like China and Russia because they're supposedly communist and ignore all the human rights violations.

[–] jol@discuss.tchncs.de 27 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

It's hilarious, because no good communist would call Russia and the CCP communism.

[–] Khlo@lemmy.blahaj.zone 22 points 10 hours ago (2 children)

I was thinking to myself isn't Russia today decidedly not communism

[–] kuato@lemmy.world 7 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

It’s not, and literally no one on those instances thinks that it is.

[–] Gormadt@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 7 hours ago (2 children)

They defend it to their dying breath though

[–] kuato@lemmy.world 3 points 7 hours ago

Show me one single example of it, then. You can’t, because they don’t.

[–] Edie@lemmy.ml 2 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

They... dont. Pointing out why the war happened, and wanting the war to end: understanding that the only way for the war to end being through negotiations where Ukraine gives up things, and therefore saying that Ukraine should negotiate and end the war, can to some look like defending Russia, it is not.

[–] Strawberry@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 5 hours ago

It's amazing that when faced with sober geopolitical analysis, people mistake it for moral justification or dehumanization. You can't solve geopolitical issues without acknowledging geopolitics! Of course it was immoral for Russia to attack Ukraine, but shouting that into the void and expecting anything to change does not save Ukrainian or Russian lives.

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[–] kuato@lemmy.world 9 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago) (1 children)

Literally no one thinks post-1991 Russia is communist. Show me a single example.

[–] will_steal_your_username@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago)

True but I've also seen quite a few ml users defend russia invading ukraine and calling ukrainians vermin etc

Edit: That is to say, it's easy to think they think russia is communist when they celebrate them killing civilians as some sort of victory against imperialism

[–] Warl0k3@lemmy.world 11 points 10 hours ago

More "Insist the human rights violations are capitalist/western/CIA propaganda used to fuel a culture war". Which like yeah, the most effective propaganda is the truth and all that...

[–] SoftestSapphic@lemmy.world 4 points 7 hours ago

It's a tankie space where people simp for authoritarian governments.

[–] Hegar@fedia.io 10 points 9 hours ago

Hexbear was one of the earliest servers that is now part of the fediverse. It was started after chapo trap house was banned from Reddit.

Users there realized the danger of the rich being able to shut down online leftist spaces well before the first waves of reddit exodus.

They do not put up with the slightest whiff of transphobic bullshit and moderate & ban that crap swiftly.

You may hear some weird takes on the US's global adversaries, but you won't have to put up with weird takes on the US.

[–] sharkfucker420@lemmy.ml 6 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago) (2 children)

Hexbear is a instance run by communist that some people hate because we can be a bit loud and snarky about our politics. Super trans friendly though 👍

Edit: they are indeed heavily defederated which is why I choose to use a lemmy.ml account most of the time. I get to interact with them and most everyone else.

[–] cm0002@lemmy.world 8 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago) (1 children)

^ Yea sure bud

Tankies = Authoritarian "Communists"

[–] CabbageRelish@midwest.social 3 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago)

Nutomic has an instance ban on Hexbear. Otherwise it’s generally a bit of a sore point between them and ML/the devs that nutomic’s around at all.

[–] Edie@lemmy.ml 5 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago) (2 children)

I can't see cm0002's post here from lemmy.ml, but I want to point out that nutomic was banned from hexbear because of those statements.

Edit: cm0002 has responded to me with bullshit, I don't care.

[–] cm0002@lemmy.world 3 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago)

There's plenty more evidence of y'all's behavior across the categories

!meanwhileongrad@sh.itjust.works (but you can't see that one from .ml because .ml admins don't want you see it (talk about censorship))

And !yepowertrippinbastards@lemmy.dbzer0.com

[–] sharkfucker420@lemmy.ml 2 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago) (4 children)

I do not know who either of those people are or what statements you refer to. I stay out of most of their drama

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[–] Sabre363@sh.itjust.works 8 points 10 hours ago (5 children)

I'm not trans so I never had reason to go down this particular rabbithole, but I remember when I first I joined the platform there was some kind of commotion around Hexbear and nobody wanting to be federated with em because of their supposedly weird tankie politics. I've never seen any tangible evidence of this (insert lack of rabbithole following here), but reading the comments, there seems to be two stories and now I'm really curious what you find out here.

[–] tenchiken@lemmy.dbzer0.com 15 points 9 hours ago

I'm not trans, but I can say that no matter the various reasons, my personal one was simple:

Everytime someone replied to one of my comments with the most asinine, absurd or just downright stupid asshole approaches, it was always hexbear.

Literally a sigh of relief when Lemmy added personal instance blocking. Immediately hit that button and never looked back.

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[–] AnarchoSnowPlow@midwest.social 8 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago) (1 children)

Lemmy instances are all independent and all have their own rules for posting and commenting. You will find that some communities allow things you find offensive, you will find that some communities ban things you find benign, this is decentralization in action.

If you consider yourself to be a leftist, you will find friends on the "tankie instances" (I can't speak to lemmygrad, I've never interacted with them).

There are also instances that have defederated with .world, because they find it to be offensive.

Blahaj is one of the instances I generally find to be enjoyable personally.

Edit: Just wanted to add, I've had comments modded on hexbear and on .world, remember the rules of the instance you're visiting.

[–] Khlo@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 points 10 hours ago (6 children)

So basically they're just reaaallllyyy far left? Here's the thing, I call myself a lefty, liberal, and progressive almost interchangeably. I don't think I'd fit in there because obviously tiananmen square happened, and obviously what's happening with Uyghur people is a goddamn travesty.

On top of that, while I think on paper communism sounds nice, in practice that's not really the case.

Also, one of the things that bummed me out was losing access to cute custom emojis but I've since learned that blahaj has some blobcat, wobble

That's not really the issue. The issue is that hexbear allows and condones harassment and bullying. They also have a lot of "tankies" which are people who defend dictatorships and genocide.

[–] cm0002@lemmy.world 15 points 10 hours ago

because obviously tiananmen square happened, and obviously what's happening with Uyghur people is a goddamn travesty.

That one sentence would get removed and likely a comm ban on any of the Tankie Triad. .ml would remove it under their catchall "Rule 1: Bigotry"

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