Sorry (🍁) we did this without making a post, but after receiving several complaints we defederated from hexbear.net yesterday.

Here’s a few quick examples of poor conduct by hexbear users:

They warned their users to behave themselves, but that didn’t work: https://hexbear.net/post/280770?scrollToComments=false

Please read and respect the rules of the community instance in which you are posting/commenting. Please try to keep the dirtbag lib-dunking to hexbear itself. Do not follow the Chapo Rules of Posting, instead try to engage utilizing informed rhetoric with sources to dismantle western propaganda. Posting the western atrocity propaganda and pig poop balls is hilarious but will pretty quickly get you banned and if enough of us do it defederated. Realize that you are a representative of the hexbear instance when you post on other instances.

  • 'M' as in 'MANCY'@lemmy.caEnglish
    2·
    11 months ago

    Good work! Thank you. Hexbear users are trolls. They’re not in it for discussion in good faith. I’ve blocked a few offenders here and there but honestly I think the culture there is so toxic that we’re better off not being federated with them.

    • astral_avocado@programming.devEnglish
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      11 months ago

      No calls for violence seems like a simple rule. And not every landlord is greedy mcshitstain with 50 properties, many of them are a single family with their starter home rented out, or a couple renting out their extra room.

      • ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com
        English
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        11 months ago

        Communists don’t care for that distinction, they believe all landlords (even non-exploitative ones like you mentioned) are inherrently exploitative and therefore deserving of death. Yes, this applies to you even if you just rent out a room, but don’t worry, money won’t exist and everything will be free!

        • Omega_Haxors@lemmy.mlEnglish
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          4 months ago

          Correction, terminally-online twitter communists don’t care for the distinction. People who actually go outside and put in the work aren’t making enemies out of individuals renting out a room, they’re too busy going after giant multi-national corporations buying out all the houses so that nobody else can get them, and then jacking up the rents once there’s no alternatives.

          Communism is about systems, not individuals. Anyone saying otherwise is either disinformed or is a radical liberal playing make-believe

    • lud@lemm.eeEnglish
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      11 months ago

      Calling for execution of anyone seems a bit extreme to me.

  • lazylion_ca@lemmy.caEnglish
    11·
    11 months ago

    I browsed a bit there. All I saw was trolls planning to troll. They won’t be missed.

    Federation is working.

      • ArxCyberwolf@lemmy.caEnglish
        01·
        11 months ago

        Oh, they already are raiding and brigading. Take a look at any post remotely mentioning China, Russia or Ukraine on lemmy.ml or any other instance still federated with them. 90% of the comments will be Hexbear users trolling, harassing people or spreading disinformation, shutting out any real discussion.

      • MapleEngineer@lemmy.caEnglish
        01·
        11 months ago

        I hope the admins on those raided instances are more effective than the admins on hexbear were.

  • Omega_Haxors@lemmy.mlEnglish
    11·
    4 months ago

    There’s always the far better-behaved Lemmygrad for those who want a more diverse prospective without the toxicity that hexbear brings.

  • zephyreks@lemmy.caEnglish
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    11 months ago

    This seems like it could have been solved at the instance level by banning some emojis… So I guess I’m confused?

    I still don’t agree with censoring political views that we disagree with. It’s a slippery slope, especially when these are REAL people that DO exist. They deserve to have their voice heard, even if it’s so they can be shit on.

    Edit: is there no way to block individual users without defederation? It sounds like taking the nuclear option against a few bad actors. We should want to have our worldview challenged since that’s a core component of democracy.

    • yata@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      0·
      11 months ago

      views that we disagree with

      a few bad actors

      Please stop with all those disingenous takes. OP makes it quite clear that it was not based on differences in viewpoint but toxic and trolling behaviour. And it is not “a few bad actors” from that instance behaving in such a way, it is everyone, since that is their publicly stated main purpose for existing.

      • zephyreks@lemmy.caEnglish
        0·
        11 months ago

        Their community policy is explicitly against the actions described in this post.

        • jerkface@lemmy.caEnglish
          1·
          11 months ago

          Blatant indifference to their own community policies is an excellent reason to defederate.