No you just brought the with you

You had it explained where they came from, and just ignored it so you could continue with your paranoid conspiracy theory.

Why not go back to reddit? You'll like it there, they also have the extreme solipsism to think anyone who disagrees with them is a paid foreigner

It’s a shock to find out that the world view instilled in you as common and sensical is neither.

It’s tough to face up to that conditioning, but you can do it if you try, and if you don’t take it personally. It’s not your fault you were filled with imperialist lies, but it will be your fault if you don’t reflect

No, we're demons from hell. We're not getting downvoted enough to be sent back.

Go back to watching your Fox News

It was explicitly not allowed. You can argue about enforcement if you want, but it wasn't allowed.

Brigading is when you organize to send people to a specific post/comment.

Federating is different groups organizing together to share functionality.

They are not the same thing and federation has nothing to do with what is being discussed.

It's actually quite easy to achieve, simply have better opinions

Its on account of those being the only good posts.

Our instance makes us literally incapable of downvoting you and yet look what we've achieved

Edit your username to have pronouns if you want us to upvote you

It may be hard to fathom for someone who's so used to Reddit, but Hexbear users really do have a deep love for each other. Also we are really really ridiculously online.

This is kind of analogous to the "CCP is falsifying all of its own data" allegation. You can cling to some sort of dogmatic narrative like Hexbear inflating its stats à la r/the_donald, that's exceedingly difficult to prove or draw anything conclusive from, or you can take a close look at it and see the reality that lines up with the stats.