TL;DR: I called out a defederation evader from hexbear.
I got perma-banned from there for saying that them crossposting "memes" from Hexbear at least made it easy to spot the Left MAGAts.
this post was submitted on 02 Mar 2026
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Enshittification of db0 continues I see.
I lost all respect for the place when I saw that they're openly supporting GenAI right in the instance info and have communities dedicated to all the big models stealing the work of artists. The "anarchist" instance is pro Corporatism so long as they're the ones benefiting from it? Yikes.
I'm honestly kinda surprised that there isn't more of a Republican influence over there.
Note to the commenters here: This is a single comm, not the instance. We have plenty of anti-tankie comms as well, like !flippanarchy@lemmy.dbzer0.com !tankiejerk@lemmy.dbzer0.com. That comm tries misguidedly to enforce left-unity, which is why it's always ending up in drama like that.
That comm tries misguidedly to enforce left-unity, which is why it's always ending up in drama like that.
It's not misguided. It's intentionally using the paradox of tolerance to open a space for the hexbear crowd.
We have plenty of anti-tankie comms as well
Leftymemes, nominally, is also supposed to have that stance. It's the first line in the description. You'd never know it by the people that post there, the content they post, or the mods they answer to.
This is a single comm, not the instance.
You don't have a Nazi bar. The Nazis are just making a lot of noise, being belligerent to non-Nazis, and inviting more and more of their friends.
Mhm, equating online tankies to nazis is sure something...
As is pretending to not understand the Nazi bar analogy.
Ye It has as much impact as telling us we're risking making it a "liberal bar". It's just ridiculous.
Note to the commenters here: This is a single comm, not the instance. We have plenty of anti-tankie comms as well....
Interestingly the "not the instance" argument didn't apply when you guys voted to defed from feddit.org last month.
So by your own community's standards it is absolutely the whole instance.
So is c/anarchism lol, anarchism with some autocrats is acceptable there.
Did we defed hexbear though? I thought we still federated with those losers.
As time passes I become increasingly convinced that dbzer0 is a tankie instance. I wonder if I'll receive any notification that My posts are removed if these people remove them. We don't federate .ml
Not that I'm a hugely active community member, but I haven't noticed a lot of tanks around. Certainly more left unity than other instances, but we do have a vote to defed from hexbear every three months it seems like.
Db0 is federated with Hexbear? The owner of Blahaj tried to stay federated with them due to the large trans community there but eventually had to put it to a vote and defederated because their users were harassing and brigading Blahaj users on our own instance for not being "socialist" enough. Then Hexbear played the victim card after the fact and claimed that it was Blahaj users who were harassing their trans community.
I'm seeing dbzer0 lose the information war to ml and adopt more tankie stances on issues over time.
I've noticed more as time goes on, but it's because -bear and -grad are spreading to (mostly .ml) other instances to evangelise to those who attempt to block their horse shit. We're not largely defederated yet so we're a target for that expansion.
"I don't know why everyone is saying dbzer0 is in bed with tankies!"
If you let tankies into your bar, you'll have a tankie bar!
Goddamnit I really don't want to have to switch instances again
Same here.
I have personally had very negative experiences with half of the people on that mod list.
Could have told you that months ago.
Yep, it might as well be a hexbear comm at this point.
Db0 Admins be like
Sacrebleu, Nien , of course we French are not Nazis. This is a proud Vitchy France Instance!
OwO notices your lack of ML.
/S
Unruffled was already fucking the instance up months ago and is the main reason I blocked it.
Wasn’t the admin already sucking ml dick before? How is this surprising?
One of them at least. Not the guy db0 themselves afaik but there's others.
Fuk Hexbear users.
That explains all the communism posts.