I think a little clarification is needed. No. I don't actually think everyone there is insane. I don't care about the bans so stop trying to use that. HB enthusiasts coming here and trying to call me out achieves nothing besides proving my point

Edit: Feel free to keep trying to brigade me. It's not going to scare me to take this down

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[–] 4 points 2 years ago (2 children)

They very quickly ban people who disagree with their propaganda. So just browsing, it looks like left leaning but generally sane people.

Go on there and say anything negative at all about China. You'll see the crazy.

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  • [–] 22 points 2 years ago (22 children)

    Have you considered you are just observing this:

    Hexbear is for communists to talk to communists. They get plenty of the "default" liberal opinions from waves hands around vaguely and are entitled to their own community, no?.

    Obviously if you go into Hexbear and just start posting anti-China stuff they're going to ban you. It's not like the English-speaking world is bereft of anti-China news articles.

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  • [–] -3 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    This isn't accurate, they were very active in brigandine other federations, hitting random threads on .world for instance with hundreds of reply comments drowning out anything that may be a tiny bit critical of china or Russia. Or pro west.

    There wereultiple cross-posts daily pointing to specific threads posted on hexbear to organize brigading.

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  • [–] 11 points 2 years ago*

    hitting random threads on .world

    Dang that's pretty impressive for an instance that got blocked by .world before they ever started federating.

    Or did I already miss make stuff up o'clock?

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  • [–] 10 points 2 years ago

    This isn’t accurate, they were very active in brigandine other federations, hitting random threads on .world for instance with hundreds of reply comments drowning out anything that may be a tiny bit critical of china or Russia. Or pro west.

    Have you considered that their users were just browsing the front page and what you're describing is just the nature of lemmy and how federation works?

    There wereultiple cross-posts daily pointing to specific threads posted on hexbear to organize brigading.

    You're likely referring to the_dunk_tank which is a community that encourages bullying homophobia, transphobia, fascists and liberale (pretty based imo)

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  • [–] 9 points 2 years ago*

    hitting random threads on .world for instance with hundreds of reply comments

    .world preemptively defederated from hexbear "as a last resort" can you clarify when the events you're referring to would have happened?

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

    I might not agree with the moderation practices or even their opinions, but that doesn't make them crazy.

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  • [–] -2 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    You got cause and effect mixed up.

    We disagree with them because they are crazy.

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