Has anyone else noticed how prevalent Hexbear posters have suddenly become? Maybe sometime last week I noticed nearly every political post had at least one long thread of Hexbear users that do nothing but repeat CCP talking points while waving anyway anything even remotely reliable as Western propaganda. That or getting all excited about trolled libs. The way they tell it, you'd think everything from DW, to Fox, to Propublica, to straight up AP News articles, are all written by the same people.
Not to mention, their info on the Fediverse observer is either straight up wrong or there's some serious botting going on. According to that, the instance is less than a month old, yet somehow they already have one of the largest, most active userbases, along with far and away the most comments of any instance.
Seems to me like Lemmygrad on steroids. Considering we defederated from them, seems like a no-brainer to block Hexbear as well.
So glad this thread could become such a perfect microcosm of why we need to defederate.
Were you a redditor? If so, you might remember r/chapotraphouse getting banned - they had been quarantined for quite a while before that, so they were ready to migrate when the ban came down. Idk if Hexbear is the first/only place they went or just where most ended up, but it's definitely the same vibe as the subreddit, with a little bit of discord thrown in with the emotes.
I will admit to being not the most observant person - especially as I'm in the process of switching medical providers right now, so I'm between ADHD prescriptions and definitely not as with it as I could be! - but when I poked my head in over there, I saw fellow anarchists posting, so I had consequently dismissed people saying they were churning out "CCP talking points." It mostly seems to me they churn out bullying - for everyone to the right of Bernie Sanders (which I mostly approve of, or at least find amusing). And Pig Poop Balls, of course. What did I miss?
I mean, he is a centrist. He doesn't even want to abolish capitalism.
And his views on Israel, yikes
What do you mean? He is like the only senator that mentions Palestinians deserving human dignity.
Well, yeah if you use the rest of the US legislature as a baseline sure I guess he's not bad
But in absolute terms?
Look, I hate Bernie too, but most of the people complaining about his stance on Israel are claiming in so many words that he's a "Bad Jew" for not being as zionist as they are.
Maybe, honestly it's been a while since I looked at it - maybe I'm misremembering.
Totally fair mistake, he has taken fucked up stances on other countries, like Yugoslavia.
it's more his support for the rest of US foreign policy. his views on Palestine are fine.
Bernie is to the right of chester the cheetoh’s cheetah wrt to “Israel” which means it’s the gulag for him.
waaait what on earth did I miss
here's how Bernie can still win:
stay in line!
The folks in front of me have been sleeping for like over two years straight but I'm gonna politely wait for them to wake up so I don't ruin The Democratic Process (but they smelled awful for some reason for the first few months after falling asleep idk what that was all abt
)
There was a discord server right at the start, but there was drama as there always is with discord and it quickly split into the discord group and the hexbear group basically as soon as the site went up. (this was like a week or two after the ban iirc)
A number of people use both
It was Just the server for a good few months before the lemmy came up right?
I thought so, but I joined July 29, 2020, and that was just a couple days after the site launched, as I recall. I got lucky and saw a post about it on
I couldn't remember when CTH got banned, but I looked it up and it was June 29, 2020. So just under a month, I guess. I'm glad I missed the invitation to the discord though--every time I try to use that thing it just makes me sad and angry. It isn't just not user-friendly, it's designed to be actively hostile to people trying to use it, I swear.
To be fair, our anarchists are tankies too.
Even our animal friends are tankies