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.
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.
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?
“Brigading”
Learn how federation works, or better yet, go back to reddit.
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.
clicking on a post at the top of All/Active is brigading. words definitely mean things.
They’re not “both sides” they’re both extremist communities filled with hate and misinformation.
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.
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?
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
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.