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.

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15 points

Your instance, along with exploding heads and lemmygrad, are ruining the fediverse. I’ve stopped recommending it to anyone because of people like you.

Here you are brigading
Midwest.Social, and you constantly push authoritarian propaganda throughout the fediverse.

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117 points

We are not brigading. We’re just extremely online and this post came into our feed like it did yours. Are we not allowed to comment on posts in our feed?

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107 points

“Brigading”

Learn how federation works, or better yet, go back to reddit.

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6 points

I know how it works, go back to your fork.

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5 points

Bullshit

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This post appeared on my feed. That’s the only reason I’m here. Get used to not being popular. This isn’t Reddit. No one is going to protect you from not encountering leftists.

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It literally came up on my feed dude. Thats how the fediverse works. Also you may notice that YOU are not part of this instance either??? So.

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Coping that your instance isn’t as active as ours lol

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17 points

I love brigading and I can’t wait to brigade more posts. I am going to brigade every post I see

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brigading

You can take the redditor out of out of the redditor

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2 points

Fuck nazis and fuck you.

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So much for the tolerant left

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Fuck are you gonna do then

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“Fuck both sides”

Says the person who would 100% side with the nazis

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24 points

😠

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108 points

clicking on a post at the top of All/Active is brigading. words definitely mean things.

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Your instance, along with exploding heads

BOTH SIDES

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3 points

They’re not “both sides” they’re both extremist communities filled with hate and misinformation.

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both extremist communitie

Literally opposite sides of the political spectrum dude. This is the literal definition of both sidesing.

hate

Yeah uh huh wanting to do genocide to minorities is the same thing as posting pig poop balls when liberals support western imperialism.

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Substantiate your claims of misinformation or shut the fuck up

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Extremism is when you don’t want the world to burn and the poor to starve, and the more you’re willing to do something other than politely beg to live, the more extremist it is.

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70 points

brigading

Learn how federation works, people saw a thread on their feed and commented on it

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3 points

Feel free to learn what brigading means.

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You’re the one who doesn’t understand what brigading is. Go to hexbear. Do you see any posts saying “hey everyone dogpile this post”? No. It came up on our feeds. Thats not brigading.

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38 points

I’m legitimately curious what you think brigading is.

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56 points

Brigading? It’s a post about us!

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go back to reddit hayseed

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54 points

someone makes a post specifically mentioning us by name slandering us, we refute it, and it’s us brigading?

wild

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54 points

Lemmy was created by communists, with lemmygrad and hexbear being among the first to exist. Lemmygrad second instance after lemmy ml actually. Do you see us cry and stop recommending it because there are libs on our sites?

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3 points

Actually yes I do, even though other people aren’t going around shoving propaganda down your throats… well aside from exploding heads and a couple smaller instances

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49 points

You see people on lemmygrad and hexbear stop recommending people join their respective sites…?

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Imagine thinking that being leftists in the center of reactionary world power, we’re not subject to people shoving propaganda down our throats.

Fucking dumbass thing to say.

You are a fish that doesn’t perceive water.

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this post shows up on All on Hexbear, because we are federated. I am posting, in this thread, from hexbear.net. nobody has brigaded anything, this is how federation works. I’m sorry this is frustrating for you, but there’s no reason to freak out and accuse people of brigading.

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44 points

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We’re not brigading dipshit, this is on the top of our homepage. Learn how the fuck federation works.

Fucking asshole showing up no more than 23 days ago acting like you own the place.

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