Ask Lemmy

It is one of the three major Tankie federations. Lemmygrad, Hexbear, and .ml. For starters, Tankie is a term originated as a pejorative on those that advocated for the Warsaw Pact invasion into Czechoslovakia in 1968. Nowadays, Tankies happen to be uncritical towards places like China and North Korea, viewing them as good places that the CIA lies about to make socialism look bad (let's not mention that China is more corporatist, even in Tankie responses when you point out that billionaires in China are a thing), and lots of them also happen to be campists, aka people that support a country as long as it claims to be anti-US. Don't get me wrong, the US did a lot of shit that is not talked about, but when you claim to be a Marxist-Leninist and support the theocratic Iran over the Iranian MLs...

And also, they love banning people they disagree with. Probably the most coherent thing about their ideology, given their authoritarianism.

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They're communists and anarchists, you were banned for defending an open fascist just because they fight for Ukraine:

You know that fifteen year old mindset when you just begin to grasp the idea of and your role in social responsibility but you're still fifteen so you're an absolutely obnoxious shit about it? Like "omg babies all abortion is bad". "Only white people can be racists" "shearing kills sheep!!!" level shit.

And you know how some people never get out of that because they like the taste of what they think is moral righteousness but is actually just huffing your own biased farts while defining random "acceptable" targets to abuse?

...yeahhhhhh.

Purity politics can eat my shit.

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.

No one on .world knows anything about Hexbear. They've never been federated with it and they love to pass around campfire stories that get more extreme with each telling.

Hexbear spent several years as its own community after r/chapotraphouse was banned. It developed technically in its own direction before being integrated with the fediverse. This also produced a distinct, insular site culture, where many topics have been discussed to the point that userbase ends up arriving at a consensus.

Politically, the instance opposes the US, critically supports China and other "AES" (actually existing socialist) states such as Cuba and Vietnam, and generally views Russia as an "enemy of an enemy," useful for breaking Western hegemony and moving toward a multipolar order, but not any sort of model to emulate.

They tend to not like it when people come in and assert their opinions without first hearing the community's perspective. And as I said, the culture is pretty insular with some people not liking the idea of federation at all. If you're strongly supportive of Ukraine, you're unlikely to fit in there. If you still want to see the memes and stuff, then I'd suggest dbzer0.

Hexbear is where the r/chapotraphouse people went after they were banned from Reddit.

See also:

https://lemmy.world/post/1084297

https://www.distractify.com/p/chapotraphouse-reddit

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dirtbag_left

In dbzer0 defederations are rare, we had a community vote months ago to deferate from hexbear because of their bad moderation and the result was not doing it, the philosophy here usually is that if you don't like some content or community, just block them.

if I'd describe hexbear with 1 word, I'd choose "tankie".

In general, the rules of the Lemmyverse confuse me.

We're a loose confederation of servers, so there's not going to be any overseeing group keeping everyone accountable to a general set of rules. If that is a bug or a feature to you is going to impact your enjoyment, unless you continue to have multiple accounts.

I only really have some others for when there are server issues or the handful of times I feel like checking in on something defeated from World, so it doesn't bother me often.

Can't you just make another user profile on Hexbear?

I’m 100% certain they are Russian psyop campaigns.

They are communists, in League with the remnants of such, Russia and China even though they are both now the worst capitalist hellscapes.

They are a sort of top-down organization, they have enforcers and they will troll you, they will troll you from other instances, they're rather known for it.

The people in charge are pieces of fucking shit, although they have a lot of users that are pretty cool, same as .ml it's the same people. Leadership, pieces of fucking shit, users, mostly cool.

I definitely felt like I was in a community where I belonged.

the places I like most are usually defederated from the larger communities.

I dunno bout y'all but 🚩