Interesting, I expected them to be much larger

Or because it's older than most of the other instances

I guess it's also natural that subcultures that tend to be banned elsewhere are early adaptors of alternative platforms.

We're lucky we didn't exist when the Trump extremists on Reddit went looking for a new home, or they would probably have been one of the biggest fields in this figure. Hopefully when the right wing extremists arrive instance admins will have the good sense to defederate.

If I remember correctly, Hexbear was there before the exodus. So that wouldn't make sense.

I only scroll all for now... Hexbear is the only thing I have blocked. I just got tired of trolly garbage.

Most instances block them so most communities on those instances won't see them either. Once you find certain communities on instances that don't block them you suddenly see half the comments being from hexbear, which likely quickly makes you block those communities fairly quickly.

. world is defederated with hexbear iirc

Think of it as the Tankie version of The Donald.

Your instance is defederated from them

I only know it because it is often mentioned when talking about trolling

It's essentially where reddit's old Chapo Trap House community went after reddit banned them in 2020. It started federating with the rest of the fediverse some time last year, but there was a bit of a culture clash between it and some other larger instances and several of them defederated it

What about blahaj?