Like it’s only so long until a user there posts a dumbass “Kick Tankies out of Lemmy” meme to try and start shit to get us defedded and hexbears take the bait immediately and pile on to tell them what a dumbass they are.
Like as dumb as the “death to NATO” being compared to “death to the people of NATO” stuff was, blahaj and hexbear are the largest queer instances and I quite like taking part in it and their trans communities, idk it’s kinda nice to interact with people who don’t have the same kind of hexbear brainrot where I see the words “pumpkin spice”, “Maoist cult”, “Soyfacing PMC radlib” or “rock stacking” and immediately start to go :sus: mentally, it feels refreshing to be able to talk to an incredibly queer positive community that doesn’t have the same kind of internet poisoning as all of us. And it seems kind of assholy that some of the users here just don’t give a shit and want to post and dunk until we get defedded by every instance, this isn’t like lemmy.ca where they were all dicks that none of us liked anyway and were complaining about us doing hate speech against fucking landlords or lemm.ee where almost every time time a user from there pops their head into our threads here they say something racist or transphobic. iirc blahaj.zone was actually the second most requested instance to federate with in the pre federation discussions due to how good of a queer space it was.
Like their first defed thread was a complete embarrassment because there were a load of users there that actually had positive opinions towards us and then they saw the shitshow happening once from the post reaching active and changed to be way against us which tbh, fair enough.
Edit:
statements from the head mod Ada:
Idk, something like “no engaging with obvious bait” or some shit like that
their banner image literally says “fuck tankies”
as cringe as it is that blahaj.zone hosts an explicitly anti-communist comm for a community half full of chasers, blahaj zone as a whole is pretty cool and i wouldn’t like to see it defedded
fair, though if it does get defedded, you can always make an account over there, i had to for some furry instances that were deemed too risque to be federated
Yeah ig, I’d just rather be able to spend time in both at the same time rather than just one at a time
and rightly so.
fuck authoritarianism, fuck hierarchies and fuck commie cops
no gods, no masters. the only way forward.
You’re posting in a communist instance mf, and you’re not in either blahaj or hexbear so I don’t really give a shit about your opinion on the matter
ik i’m crazy wanting liberation for all sentient beings and an end to oppression
fuck authoritarianism
Ok, so define it first. Bonus points if you don’t consult the state department.
The UK is currently run by an unelected, unopposed dictatorial tyrant with no mandate. Just something to think about while you try and invent a definition.
fuck hierarchies
How do you intend to organise?
fuck commie cops
I don’t see the People’s Police running protestors over or shooting minorities on the regular.
let’s have a look at your wonderful communist china
social credit system and total surveillance. One wrong word and you’re boned.
the people’s police? You mean like Tianenmen Square?
And what about your wonderful communist utopia of Russia? Raping ukrainian children?
no gods, no masters
right, so let’s go build the material conditions for this to be possible!
let’s call this process hmmm socialism, or something
I didn’t see the original comment, but I agree with general anarchist sentiment and even I know that we won’t be able to jump right to it from capitalism. I view it more as an ideal longterm goal, and we are of course going to need to have a stable socialist society first to get there. That’s why any communist willing to work with anarchists is a comrade of mine!
WHAT IF THERE WERE A MYSTERIOUS “THIRD WAY”?
But for serious, I get the feeling that someone might need to make an instance for people who want to post on both. It could even be queer themed. I just don’t see hexbear being able to rein it in enough to avoid the inevitable, and personally I like the dirtbag culture as it is.
Many of these “I don’t want to get defederated” posts are essentially asking for a complete 180 on the site culture; Stop posting so much. Stop responding to posts. Stop bullying liberals. Stop using emojis. Stop dismissing bad faith arguments and outright lies with PPB.
That’s not what Hexbear is. I like your solution of a bridge instance, but beyond that the solution is likely that people who want to view anti-Leftist, anti-Communist instances need to make separate accounts on those instances.
Edit: I read Ada’s (from Blahaj) posts and I have to temper my statement - I do see the value in maintaining ties with another major trans instance and making some adjustments to make that possible is a worthy thing to do. Please check out the statements, they’ve been added to the original post.
Idgi if users want to interact with a non federated instance, just create an alt there?
I blocked c/196, because I absolutely don’t trust myself not to see some anticommunist bullshit and go in guns blazing. They have “fuck tankies” in their comm banner, which I take as a sign that it’s very much not a space for me, so you know what? Fine. I don’t have to be there. The rest of blahaj.zone seems pretty cool, I like that it’s an explicitly queer instance, but c/196 seems like a bad idea and I just don’t want to deal with it.
Same, I saw “fuck tankies” in the banner and that makes it very clear it’s not a space for anyone left of Joe Biden.
They defed Lemmygrad instantly. Hell I posted a meme “weed this weed that how about you weed Lenin” and got banned for “supporting Mao” or something, check the modlog lmao.
Aparently that’s what constitutes brigading for them, posting commie memes. Whatever you guys are doing is much more than what we did lmao
Any excuse will do. While there’s been some aggro behavior, I got accused of attacking/insulting someone just for being against corporate pride
Libs really hate being told that the horizon of what they could be doing is wider than what they are doing, and take it as an insult.
They also don’t seem to realize the irony in getting offended by that but also telling someone that all their work is for naught and better things aren’t possible
And they’re that hostile not to our conduct, but to critical, limited support for countries they don’t like based largely on either pure vibes or a highly propagandized version of history. To me it seems very likely that we’ll be defederated sooner or later due to their ideological regardless of what we do. Shitposting and dunking will certainly hasten that, but eventually one of the admins is going to see one too many “for fucks sake no one got tank jellied in June 4th” posts and decide that we’re red fash 1982 septic tank commies and defed us because… they’re anti-Communist, anti-Left, liberals.
Edit; Reading Ada’s statement has changed my view on this. I don’t know how to practically accomplish it, but please read Ada’s comment that has been added to the top post. I think maintaining detente with another large trans space is important if we can find a way to do it.
Most of them don’t seem to like Hexbear in general so idk how this is going to pan out
I like you guys lots ❤️
I hope you don’t get disappeared by our Sharky State. Your memes can border on rancid but mostly I’m into it 😎
Edit: Weird, a different image of blahaj appears when you look at this from your instance, do you guys have like a custom emote also called blahaj?
A lot of the vulgarity is very deliberate. A big part of the site culture is a rejection of the civility discourse that dominated Democratic politics in '16 and to an extent again in '20. We’re not just assholes, the handful of brain cells knocking around here do have some logic behind the posting, sometimes.
