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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by Menachem@midwest.social to c/main@midwest.social

Has anyone else noticed how prevalent Hexbear posters have suddenly become? Maybe sometime last week I noticed nearly every political post had at least one long thread of Hexbear users that do nothing but repeat CCP talking points while waving anyway anything even remotely reliable as Western propaganda. That or getting all excited about trolled libs. The way they tell it, you'd think everything from DW, to Fox, to Propublica, to straight up AP News articles, are all written by the same people.

Not to mention, their info on the Fediverse observer is either straight up wrong or there's some serious botting going on. According to that, the instance is less than a month old, yet somehow they already have one of the largest, most active userbases, along with far and away the most comments of any instance.

Seems to me like Lemmygrad on steroids. Considering we defederated from them, seems like a no-brainer to block Hexbear as well.

So glad this thread could become such a perfect microcosm of why we need to defederate.

[-] Menachem@midwest.social 6 points 1 year ago

outside of running your own instance, asking your instance's owner to block them, or joining one that already has the offender on the blocklist, no. It's requested a lot though so it's probably on the todo list

[-] Menachem@midwest.social 177 points 1 year ago

of course the one person in europe who owns a pickup would park it on the sidewalk

[-] Menachem@midwest.social 19 points 1 year ago

finish reading the comment, theyre not the same

[-] Menachem@midwest.social 8 points 1 year ago

i mean it's spiced differently and usually has beans but the main ingredient is still tomatoes. not that different from having a meat sauce

[-] Menachem@midwest.social 8 points 1 year ago

you've got to consider that to a lot of these people racism "isn't real" because their bar for what qualifies as racist is set incredibly high. "how could that be racist if it's true?"

you can see a similar anti-trans sentiment in the people who defend jk rowling. "she's just saying gender can't mismatch assigned sex, how could the truth be transphobic?" nothing could ever be transphobic or racist or whatever to these people when they think very concept of being bigoted isn't legitimate

[-] Menachem@midwest.social 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Maybe I've just spent too long arguing with aholes on the internet but to me calling someone "friend" comes across as very sarcastic and condescending

Edit, it's like calling someone you don't know "buddy" or "pal"

[-] Menachem@midwest.social 11 points 1 year ago

twitter. thats as deep as it goes. like how they try to get people to put hashtags in their titles despite no one using hashtags to find videos. corporations try not to turn everything into a homogeneous blob challenge: impossible.

it's funny because they tried to do this push a few years ago too where everyone new had an @ and they eventually dropped it because it was dumb. i guess whichever exec thought that was a good idea never actually left

[-] Menachem@midwest.social 27 points 1 year ago

idk, im surprised it took this long. there's a huge variety of admin teams with varying degrees of security awareness and it's been over a month since the first big influx of users started. it'll happen again too and probably not before too long

[-] Menachem@midwest.social 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

idk the whole idea of a test is to demonstrate understanding, which this doesn't. i feel like a good teacher wouldnt take off points, but would have to pull the student aside and be like "ok now circle the tens place, hundreds place, etc"

[-] Menachem@midwest.social 11 points 1 year ago

"Vitamin" is basically the 19th century's idea of a sciencey word for "nutrients." I mean heck, half the "vitamin Bs" aren't even related to each other at all

[-] Menachem@midwest.social 7 points 1 year ago

Someone is posting James tits?

[-] Menachem@midwest.social 19 points 1 year ago

tbf people just wanna sign up and click on funny links, not browse through 100 rando instances to find the one that lines up with their exact interests and wait for approval and worry about uptime and whether their instance will still exist in a year

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