• some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org
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    2 days ago

    Thanks! Unlike a lot of Lemmy users, I have a soft spot for hexbears. I think they had a genuinely traumatic experience when they federated and their very personal instance was inundated with people who didn’t think and talk as they did. I’m glad they’re ok.

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      1 day ago

      Ah, I saw a lot of people traumatized by their posting, but it is the first time I hear about the opposite.

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        Hexbear is the only place online I’ve found that I feel most comfortable speaking my mind as a neurodivergent queer communist. People act like hexbear is some harsh authoritarian zone, it just simply doesn’t condone chauvinism, transphobia, or let people post western propaganda without it being questioned. Some people react poorly to the way they are responded to on hexbear when they post some bullshit that we’ve heard and debunked 1000 times already.

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          14 hours ago

          They also made a habit of “raiding” other instances, and outright flooding any conversation they didn’t agree with with the most vile takes they could come up with, or, failing that, the pig shit Gif.

          But yeah, they’re secretly caring people, sure.

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            8 hours ago

            They also made a habit of “raiding” other instances,

            Lol, I love seeing the mythology of hexbear evolve in real time. I particularly like how you put “raiding” in inverted commas to make it seem like you’re quoting something, rather than just making it up whole cloth.

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              I mean, I saw it happen. You argue with one, and twenty others show up and just flood the thread.

              But sure, keep lying to yourself about how your friends are secretly caring people or whatever.

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      1 day ago

      they had a genuinely traumatic experience

      Jesus Christ, this is so ridiculous. They federated on their own accord, and from what I’ve seen very little non-hexbear users ever came to post on hexbear communitites. Seeing some new users in your online community who disagree with you isn’t fucking traumatic, in fact these people adore arguing and “dunking” on “libs”.

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        Dunking on other instances was literally the entire reason they federated in the first place. Their users were salivating at what they would do to lemmy.ca before we defed’d.

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        19 hours ago

        Their users wanted to defederate right away when they saw the rest of Lemmy. The people in charge (able to pull the switch) kept telling them to hold on and it’d get better. A small number of people made the decision for all of them. It’s all the rest for whom I genuinely feel bad. Their community was highjacked and, I think to them, attacked. I can have empathy for the average users.

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          14 hours ago

          Having seen how Hexbear interacted with other instances, I have zero empathy for them. They were an incredibly nasty group of people towards anyone who thought differently to them.

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        23 hours ago

        Seeing some new users in your online community who disagree with you

        It takes so very little for liberals to take their masks off and start talking word-for-word exactly the same as incel nazis.

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          16 hours ago

          If you see anything that’s factually incorrect in my comment, please go ahead and point it out.

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            How about instead of puffing your chest out like an online incel douchebag asking me to cross a brand new line in the sand, you respond to what was already pointed out.

            i.e. you being an incel nazi cosplayer and pulling the ‘just simply for disagreeing and nothing else’ bullshit you and every other incel nazi uses every time your behavior is called out

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              what was already pointed out.

              Almost nothing has been pointed out. You said my comment resembles those of “incel nazis”. No actual explanation or concrete criticism, just aggressive vocabulary and vague accusations. Of course, you can’t provide anything more than that - had i actually given even a hint of support for nazi ideology, you’d easily point it out, rather than just calling out… my wording?

              bullshit you and every other incel nazi uses every time your behavior is called out

              What is this “my/our behaviour” that you’re talking about exactly?

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                I didn’t explicitly give verbal support to specific nazi parties (motte) I just said these snowflakes go running whenever some vague and nonspecific disagreement happens! (bailey)

                You can’t criticize me for using the exact same rhetorical tools literal nazis use and in the exact same context! It’s just a coincidence! You have to follow my rules and satisfy my framing!

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      Their community reminds me of that one Something Awful subforum with the same style. I guess hexbear is just a younger demographic