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how is Lemmy going for you? (lemmy.nz)
submitted 3 years ago by to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml
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Now that a lot of the commotion has subsided I'm just curious to know how y'all are finding the Lemmy experience in general and whether you use it regularly like you did reddit?

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[–] 37 points 3 years ago (2 children)

I've only been active on Hexbear really since the cth sub got banned and we built that space, but I really like how federation has gone and the influx of new slop and occasional lost libs/chuds.

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  • [–] [S] 41 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    I know what some of those words mean

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  • [–] 34 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) (2 children)

    Hexbear: the 3rd or so biggest instance on lemmy and by far the most active. It's where all the people with pronouns next to their names come from. We're a left unity trans positive community that's been around for 3 years, mostly made up of Marxists and Anarchists. We were just recently federated with the rest of lemmy about a week ago.

    slop: Food for the hogs. Content. Posts. Discussion. Drama. Romance. Danger! Hoggers

    cth: a podcast no one really cares about. A community of leftists outgrew a forum that used to be about them. It got banned from reddit and the refugees turned into Hexbear.

    libs: Liberals. From our perspective this includes about 65-75% of the American political landscape. This includes all democrats and about half republicans. These are people who support capitalism. Bernie Sanders is a lib. They are annoying and will betray you in the end but they're usually the people who can be reasoned with so it's extra frustrating.

    chuds: Fascists. The other 25-35%. Confederate flag waving people who eat burgers as a protest against global warming. Kyle Rittenhouse stans. Coal rollers. The people who will kill you first if you have good politics. They believe above all else in natural hierarchies so the capitalists will turn to them when the left challenges theirs. That's how Hitler happened.

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  • [–] 13 points 2 years ago

    cth: a podcast no one really cares about. A community of leftists outgrew a forum that used to be about them. It got banned from reddit and the refugees turned into Hexbear.

    what do you mean? people definitely care about citations needed.

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  • [–] 6 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    Once you understand the kind of people who are on hexbear, things will become more clear. Just go to some of their profiles and have a look at what they post

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  • [–] -1 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    I think a considerably chunk of them are bots

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  • [–] -1 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    It's not impossible, but I doubt it...

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  • [–] 8 points 3 years ago* (2 children)

    This post is making me want to add hexbear to a word filter. Specially the blatant 4chan lingo such as "slop".

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  • [–] 25 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    Is 'slop' from 4chan? I thought that was one of our originals?

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago*

    β€œIf I encounter a word I do not know used by communists, it must be from 4chan because I am the most highly educated and professional person ever to walk the Earth.” β€” liberals

    (I am Jewish and have been terminally online for years and have never heard that β€˜slop’ is anti-semitic. Sounds like libs are just using anti-semitism as an empty accusation to silence communists to me, especially heinous when you consider who funded the Nazis in the first place and who rescued the Nazis after the Soviets destroyed them.)

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  • [–] 4 points 3 years ago (3 children)

    It's their way of saying "low quality", usually thrown at things they deem forced by a marketing team. Always gave me some anti-semitic vibes when I used to see it used in context but I'm not sure why off the top of my head.

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  • [–] 20 points 3 years ago

    I don't believe there is any 4chan connection - instead slop is used in the sense of

    sometimes in the plural) Scraps used as food for animals, especially pigs or hogs.

    Synonyms: hogwash, swill

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  • [–] 2 points 3 years ago* (1 child)

    This might be why. I hate that I’ve seen this stuff before.

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  • [–] 17 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    That's gross (thank you for sharing the link, I haven't heard of that one) but it is 100% not what hexbears mean as they refer to their own forum posts as "slop". They just mean low effort "content" in the more generic English slang sense.

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