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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.

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[โ€“] EnsignRedshirt@hexbear.net 45 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Sorry for the confusion, but thank you for bearing with it (no pun intended) and engaging in good faith. I promise you that, at the very least, hexbear users are real people who are being sincere.

[โ€“] Maajmaaj@lemmy.ca 43 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Of course! I believe one of the main "meanings of life" is to learn and grow. I can't in good conscience just write y'all off due to my own ignorance. It would conflict with my reasons to remain living ๐Ÿ–ค

[โ€“] EnsignRedshirt@hexbear.net 40 points 1 year ago

We want you to remain living and growing and learning, friend โค๏ธ

[โ€“] AOCapitulator@hexbear.net 37 points 1 year ago

This is why Federating was a good idea

Great attitude friend!