Since the federation the comment sections got so inflammatory. Literally everything gets turned into some political “capitalism bad” or “the west bad” discussion. It made Lemmy very annoying for me to use…
Yes. They literally have a huge community dedicated to disrupting other instances: https://hexbear.net/c/the_dunk_tank
Lemmygrad is nothing compared to the shear volume of brigading, spam and bad faith arguments coming from there.
(This reached the front page of Hexbear)
Just block the users that do this, and there will be a instance blocking feature soon too
Personally I chose this instance so I wouldn’t randomly get defederated from other instances and I would have to switch to another instance if this happened.
Why should I play wack-a-mole everytime I like to read comments? Just remove that cesspool all togheter. Do you really benefit from anything on hexbear? Go over there and find a community you would really miss, and then show me. Please.
Also this instance is already blocking things like exploding-heads and lemmygrad
Nop, I can read lemmygrad posts and comments.
I too would like to be in control whos comments I read and whos not to. So no, pleas do not defederate. If you want it managed for you, beewag would be the place.
Guess what? It’s managed for you here. And everywhere. Every place defederates with some other place. The only way to have what you want is to run your own instance and never defederate.
Comments like this around make me chuckle. Especially if you look and see the list of blocked instances already from a place where people try to claim they don’t want a place that defederates.
Pretty certain every single instance defederates with some other instance. So if you really don’t want to defederate, then you’d have to make your own instance and never defederate from any other place.
I checked earlier and this instance has not defederated from any other so what are you talking about lol
Scroll down on this page: https://discuss.tchncs.de/instances
the 70+ instances that are blocked just magically showed up after you “checked”?
Yeah, I kind of agree. Some of them are amusing though, even if they sometimes have trouble stringing coherent sentences together (probably why they are accused of being bots) and many have the same circular talking points and recurring memes (pretty sure they have a conversation flowchart to try and keep themselves on track, much like telemarketers).
Others seem like normal people / typical idealists.
I found the average lemmygrad commenter more engaged and coherent, though. So if that is the bar for this instance, then I suppose hexbear is below it.
Isn’t that how psyops work? Sound generally reasonable and introduce the occasional piece of misinformation, maybe about a war of aggression?
Propaganda, yes. I suspect that in this case many hexbears have been egging each other on for so long in relative isolation that they’ve developed their own back-patting (aka circle-jerk) culture with in-jokes and accepted-facts that don’t make sense to others… those participating in it are probably still quite immature. I just call them on it here and on my alts.
I think that is still worth being exposed to different opinions and having your own accepted-facts challenged, so long as it’s appropriately moderated / doesn’t get out of hand. It sounds like the hexbear admins are fairly active.
It’s not my call in the end, though.
I vote cut them loose
No.
This is how you kill the fediverse. I don’t think people enjoy hopping from instance to instance & eventually they’ll stop altogether.
Fair enough if it the content is illegal, but we shouldn’t defederate just because the content annoys you or you don’t agree with it.
What if it will annoy a big percentage of normal users?
E.g. would you enjoy having exploding-heads content in your feed?
instance hopping should be normal: i have 8 accounts simultaneously open in my Connect app. Also connect allows u to hide comments from filtered (blocked) insntance of ur choice, including hexbear.
Yes, if the other option is for you to play whack a mole, just defederate. People that follow that ideology can always go somewhere else, if they dislike you keeping this instance from being subjected to trolls and the like.
