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[–] 57 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Don't have a problem with what instance you're on as long as you're respectful I'll be respectful back

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  • [–] [S] 51 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    I totally agree. But that instance is slightly notorious for brigading threads.

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  • [–] 53 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    A brigade is when you're one of the oldest and most active instances and continue to use the federated website.

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  • [–] 49 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    hi it's me here to brigade a post that appeared in my feed

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  • [–] 41 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    You have brigaded my inbox. Now you will receive one in return sicko-slideshow

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  • [–] 35 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    i-spil-my-jice mods halp they're doing a brigaderino

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  • [–] 44 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    We just have a lot of active users. Brigading doesn't happen when the feeds show up organically.

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  • [–] [S] 12 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    I get what you mean, and I see the brigading emoji (all/active), but I do feel like hex and grad are both very argumentative, and I don't usually see you guys participating in other non-political communities or threads either which leaves a bad taste in my mouth.

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  • [–] 34 points 1 year ago

    hex and grad are both very argumentative

    i mean we are communists...honestly if you think we're bad towards y'all you should see some of our more heated discussions amongst ourselves; the only people leftists are more vicious towards than fascists and their enablers are leftists who very slightly disagree with them lol.

    don't usually see you guys participating in other non-political communities

    possibly that's because we have comms for a lot of those things (sports, games, movies, anime, etc) and tend to use those instead but that's just a guess. i won't speak for anyone else but i find a lot of the memes and stuff on lemmy are a little reddit-flavored for me so i don't usually engage (since i don't want to just go in and shit on people having a harmless good time or w/e)

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  • [–] 33 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Not to overwhelm you with comments, but most Hexbear and Grad users tend to stay on Hex and Grad for non-political content, funny enough. Check out Hex's general megathreads, or the gaming comm, etc.

    As someone who made a Hexbear alt (not the other way around), it's a far more pleasant space to relax, IMO. Plus, Communists tend to all be political nerds to begin with.

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  • [–] [S] 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    That makes sense, but it does give the impression that they only brigade.
    Though, I can't think of a single time I have seen a hexbear user outside of hexbear on a non-political thread.

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  • [–] 19 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I see them usually on non-political Lemmy.ml threads, if you avoid them then that explains it. Hexbear keeps a small federation list to protect its marginalized users from harrassment, and also to carve out a uniquely Leftist space.

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  • [–] [S] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    I thought hex originally federated with everyone, but when they started refederating they chose an allow-list. Am i wrong? I know that lemmy.world blocked them, which is where a lot of non-political content is.

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  • [–] 21 points 1 year ago

    Even in the beginning, federation was selective. Lemmy.world blocked Hex before Hex ever federated with .world, which is funny. There are different perspectives on Hex, some want broade federation, some want tighter, Hex's current federation strategy is the result of different votes over the years. What was chosen for refederation was the same as it was before.

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  • [–] 19 points 1 year ago

    In the past Hexbear used a fork of lemmy that didnt have federation, it wasnt until after the reddit migration we updated to the then version of lemmy with federation and we started with an allow list, then world block hexbear before federation

    We had had an instance years before the reddit migration so we are used to use our local comms and are active there

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    You can just admit you don't know how federation works

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  • [–] [S] 3 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Hey man, I think you're taking this slightly too seriously.

    I undestand federation, I have been on the fediverse for two-three years, and have built stuff using activitypub.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    If you think they're "brigading" you clearly don't understand how federation works

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 1 year ago (3 children)

    How come they don't "brigade" normal threads? only political ones.

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  • [–] 17 points 1 year ago

    90% of threads are pretty boring. Most of the memes posted on Lemmy are the kinds of things I would expect from /r/memes. On the political threads people often make claims that are simply false (i.e. claiming that Marxists or 'tankies' love the Russian Federation) so naturally Hexbear will show up to contradict that stuff. You'd be hard pressed to find us organizing "brigades," we literally just have a unified ideological line that we're experienced in defending so when we see something that's easily disproven we disprove it.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    They don't "brigade" anything, they're federated

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  • [–] [S] -1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Alright, I'll rephrase.
    How come they rarely ever comment outside of political threads?

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    What's that got to do with the price of eggs?

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  • [–] [S] 0 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Well, how come their totally not brigading ends outside of political threads?

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    It doesn't, they don't brigade any threads.

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  • [–] [S] -1 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Are you avoiding answering my question? not trying to be passive-agressive (or even agressive).

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I did answer your question, they don't brigade any threads

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  • [–] [S] 0 points 1 year ago (1 child)
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  • [–] [S] 1 point 1 year ago (1 child)

    I think you may have misinterpreted it. I asked (paraphrased) "if hexbear isn't brigading, then why do they almost never comment on non-political posts?"

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Can you stop "paraphrasing" things in ways that completely change their meaning, please?

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  • [–] [S] 3 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    How did I change the meaning? Genuinely asking.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    Because Hexbear is an explicitly political community. They’re here for politics, so of course that’s what they’re going to comment on.

    A leftist social platform centered around community building through discussion, shitposting memes, and sharing content.

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