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The short answer is that we don't typically buy the western backed narratives about the world, and instead choose to actually look at reality and decide for ourselves how the world is.

This is extremely disruptive to people who just read what the CIA says and go "yeah that's objective truth!" and so rather than live with that discomfort or learn from our more diverse worldview, they would rather block us.

Propaganda is a hell of a drug. Welcome though, I hope you have a nice time here

Liberal im-poster syndrome exasperated by the fact that we have a culture of pushing back with replies due too getting rid of downvoting years ago.

We refuse Sealioning among other things. It kind of pisses some people of

In the summer of 2023 a horde of reddit racists, nazis, neoliberals and in general trust fund basement dwelling losers moved on masse to lemmy, because reddit banned some third party software or whatever, it was so dumb I can't even remember what the fuss was about

Since then they've been clutching pearls at our anti-racism, anti-Nazism, anti-imperialism, and believe it or not anti-genocide

Every instance besides our own invited these freaks in and violated the Nazi Bar Principle and as a result these reactionary redditers have infested most of lemmy and turned it into a bargain-bin 4chan ripoff

You got a ton of answers and they are all right lol. So I'll just say welcome aboard, comrade!

Personally, I think it's mostly due to people coming in from reddit and being outraged that people further left than themselves exist in this space, you know the .world crowd. Fairly new myself, but I can't say I've seen much here that would be out of the ordinary in any other left wing space.

Part of it was Hexbear was forked and was therefore slower to the federation game than the other large instances. So when the prospect of enabling federation was placed on the table there was a hue and cry from people who thought that acknowledging NATO's role in kicking off the Ukraine war or questioning the Western narrative on the Xinjiang was beyond the pale; meanwhile, Hexbear has a pretty bright red line on treating trans people as human beings that some of the other instances seem to have a surprisingly hard time understanding. As far as drama goes, there was plenty of discussion about the various defederation brouhahas that you're welcome to do some archaeology on if you're really that curious, but the TL;DR is that we're too cool for everyone else.

A lot of it is liberals (and to a lesser extent: anarchists), but hexbear users are pretty argumentative (not an insult necessarily!) and tend to flood threads giving the illusion of brigading (happened on reddit as well with r/cth).

edit: if you want to federate with everyone, piefed.social and lemmy.zip are pretty good.

There's a contingent of power users/mods/admins that range from neoliberals to social Democrats/reformists, and view anyone more radical than the Democratic party/Bernie as red fash.

That does include anarchists if you have any heterodox opinions about Ukraine or refuse to engage in their red scare propaganda. they have been doing a smear campaign about the "tankie troika" of Lemmy servers for a while now.

They even have a snark comm for exactly that.

Hello and welcome to our silly webzone!

Basically a lot of those instances are full of reddit-brained liberals who really dislike when people say nice, or normal things about third world countries.

they hate us 'cuz they ain't us.