The last few posts made here, they’ve shown up, made the most inane, idiotic, and pointless comments, upvoted each other in a frenzy of circle jerking, and generally made a pest of themselves.
They’re a nuisance, and add nothing of value to the Lemmy experience.
This would be one of the funnier defederation reasons so I support it on behalf of hexbear
I was browsing new, and it’s just very silly so I had to comment. I’m not being inflammatory so it’s OK.
I was browsing new
Bull. Shit.
So tired of you Hexbear jerks and your authoritarian propaganda. No you didn’t “just find this”, your brigading like you always do.
> Hexbear user posts perfectly neutral comment
> Gets hit with an abrasive attitude
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I have filtered out a lot of the spammer accounts that just spew nonsense.
On one hand I’m lucky I can do that with sync. But on the other hand we shouldn’t have to resort to whackamole.
I wouldn’t mind if it was a few “bad apples”, but every single fucking one of them are here to start arguments, call people racist, and generally act in the most abrasive manner possible.
What’s the argument there? People shouldn’t have oppositional discussions online? You just want to live in an echo chamber?
One of the saddest things about silicon valley social media products is the way they silo people off and prevent exchange of ideas.
And here on lemmy, reddit users who got used to it silo themselves off willingly.
The issue is, there is no discussion or exchange of ideas happening, just a group of people behaving like seagulls.
i mean, bro, you’re being racist as fuck in that other thread.
i’m not from hexbear, you gonna start a thread about kbin, now, too?
It’s really not hard to remember. You’d only think that if you didn’t try to say it once even. Papakanghorohoro or something
There’s plenty of names that are a nightmare to say in other languages, it’s not about the language, it’s that it will be an ongoing headache for the residents of the street.
And frankly, I think their voice is the most important one, because they’re the ones living here.
Oh boy, don’t get me started on kbin. Soooo much spam. About 90% of our spam reports (for actual spam) are for kbin.social posts, and I presume the reports don’t federate to kbin so I just remove it from our view and then it stays on kbin 🙁
Seriously if you have a suggestion I’d love to hear it. There are too many thoughtful kbin participants to consider defederation. But oh boy is the spam annoying.
Please share a list of spammer accounts so we can point and laugh (at you)
https://hexbear.net/post/423647
https://hexbear.net/comment/3824503
Just to inform this conversation about why OP is having a fit
Well I think that comment did deserve what it got in the second one. Cant we all (in NZ) pronounce Ngāruawāhia fairly well?
I wouldn’t support defederation based on those two threads, but you hexbears can be a bit ‘hot’ in some topics
Papakangahorohoro
I saw the word once I just typed it from memory. You tell me if I got it wrong. No brainer
As I keep saying, they’re all like that.
They just flood a thread with the most abrasive takes possible, every single time. I believe 196 has already defederated for similar reasons.
The issue isn’t so much what was said, it’s that nothing of value has come from a single one of you, and you’re basically flooding the place with shit takes.
You can always make an account here.
Every time I read a stupid comment and then check the instance 100% of the time it’s hexbear.
So far I’ve not seen any rule breaking posts.
Edit: I made this comment after only seeing hexbear users in few nz thread but after seeing more and seeing how the partcipate. I think we should defederate. They will never participate in good faith as they are an extremist instance. Majority of the big instances have already defederated with them so its not like we will be singling them out. On the point of “diverse viewpoints”, policy so far bans extreme right wing instances and extreme leftwing instances. All the reasonable view points that a hexbear user could provide can be provided by the many leftists across other instances.
Yeah, that’s exactly the issue. Nothing of value comes from their instance, but they do follow the rules.
If you’re not going to engage in good faith with the discussion, then take a hike.
Regarding the edit, what is their instance actually about, what are their leanings? I haven’t been to visit, and don’t really want to.
They’re anti nato communists and some socialists. I took a geez at their “why does everyone hate our instance thread” and it seems that in their words, since they have been on the platform for 3 years they have a strong instance culture. They are used to fighting and battling trolls so when they see something they don’t like they swarm on it and argue aggressively.
From my opinion its a political community that focuses on pushing extreme left wing views. They are anti western, anti capitalism and anti racism and bigotry. I laughed because one of the reasons they keep giving for being hated is because “they’re always right”.
I think calling them anti capitalism and anti racist is a bit reaching as many of them seem to support the state capitalism of Russia and the CCP. And I have yet to come across a hexbear user that has ever brought up the current genocide of the Uyghur population in China, they’d much rather point fingers at western countries for their issues instead of holding up a mirror to their own beliefs regarding “communism” in its current form in Russia and China.
Being anti NATO, I suspect they’re also on Russia’s side regarding Ukraine? Yeah, fuck em.
Tankies. They are pro authoritarian communist or socialist regimes like China and USSR, and anti western liberal capitalist democracies like US and NZ.
They got banned from Reddit and moved to an isolated Lemmy instance long before the rest of Lemmy got big, but decided to experiment with federation fairly recently.
