I have seen so many thread saying how bad that instance is but every time I ask for links proving how bad they are I have never see anything worth the hate.

Can you provide some examples?

[–] MonsieurHedge@kbin.social 73 points 2 years ago (6 children)

I have never see anything worth the hate.

You just have a very high tolerance for jackassery. You've seen plenty of evidence of hexbear hostility, i.e. the "dunk tank" that would justify not wanting to interact with hexbear users and have actively chosen to disregard it.

This is because you're kind of a jackass. Disregarding people engaging in good faith with "just trust me bro" is exactly the kind of thing people really hate hexbear users for. Not because of illegal activity or moral failing, but because they're assholes. While you may think this isn't worth de-federation, unfortunately moderators aren't some kind of legal authority, and if federating with hexbear means instance admins or community moderators need to put in triple the work to prune all the arguments and """shitposting""" hexbear users love, nobody is legally or morally required to put up with it.

It's legitimately that simple. Hexbear users are jerks and nobody wants to hang out with them, and that's enough to ban them from any given community or instance.

[–] Snowpix@lemmy.ca 26 points 2 years ago (1 children)

[–] Gormadt@lemmy.blahaj.zone 26 points 2 years ago

For anyone curious:

Source for the thread where that image comes from.

The whole thread is pretty eye opening to be honest. Especially the top comment.

[–] JoeBigelow@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Best point I've read made here.

I'm also probably kind if a jackass, because hex bear doesn't bother me. Would I appreciate a civil conversation to better understand their POV? Totally. Will that happen? No. So I just don't interact. The fierce protection of LGBTQ communities is something I appreciate however.

[–] FaeDrifter@midwest.social 4 points 2 years ago (6 children)

The fierce protection of LGBTQ communities is something I appreciate however.

It's not really genuine though. They lightly elevate trump above all other presidents despite his history of attacking LGBTQ rights: https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2020/09/trumps-record-lgbtq-rights-vile-moment-took-office-kept-list/

It's just a political angle to get support from people who feel isolated away from other political movements.

[–] mycorrhiza@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (17 children)

Here FaeDrifter is again saying this shit.

A HUGE PORTION OF HEXBEAR IS TRANS. OVER HALF THE MODS ARE TRANS. THIS HAS BEEN THE CASE FOR THREE YEARS PRIOR TO FEDERATION. FAE, PEOPLE HAVE POINTED THIS OUT TO YOU BEFORE. PROBABLY MULTIPLE TIMES NOW.

See @HornyOnMain@lemmy.ml in this very thread:

https://lemmy.ml/comment/3504748

We've never "pretended to support lgbt", why would we? What would be the point of a load of alt right channers roleplaying as queer communists for years on an incredibly niche social media in the hope that eventually redditors would come to the site? And even supposing we did, and we were all just alt right types, if we'd spent years doing reading groups of queer theory together and kicking out transphobes and creating the most queer friendly space on lemmy just as an incredibly long extended bit then would the supposed communists we're impersonating even take issue with that?

Like just use some critical thinking, at this point almost half of the sites users are trans and most of the rest are queer, most new users cite our radical opposition to queerphobia as their reason for joining, what evidence is there that we lie about being queer friendly? Like just check out !traaaaaaannnnnnnnnns@hexbear.net or !anti_cishet_aktion@hexbear.net or !transenby_liberation@hexbear.net and tell me in good faith that all these people have been lying for years about being queer

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[–] yA3xAKQMbq@lemm.ee 64 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Lol, that's because the mods of said threads already had to delete all the bullshit they posted once they "accidentally found this on all" and then descent on it like locusts (but they're totally not brigading!!!1!)

Here's one of their mods:

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[–] audiomodder@lemmy.blahaj.zone 43 points 2 years ago (2 children)

https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/1854795

How about flooding a meta thread that’s not on their own instance to insult people who disagree with them?

Part of the drama with that incident included hexbear folks straight up saying “I thought the whole point of federating with other instances was so that we could dunk on liberals”. Majority of folks on hexbear did not see any issues with the behavior of their members on this post.

[–] fushuan@lemm.ee 6 points 2 years ago

Oh wow, there's more hexbear comments than blahaj comments. Almost every blahaj comment has like 3-4 responses. I read a comment of someone saying that the thread looks wildly different if you see it from an instance that defederated them, and it's so sad that it is completely different.

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[–] GnothiSeauton@lemmy.world 32 points 2 years ago (32 children)

If you'd like examples I know some of their bad takes are starting to be posted to !meanwhileongrad@sh.itjust.works

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[–] MrJukes@lemmy.one 12 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I haven't really had any issues with them. That said, literally the thread above this one in all top hour has a bunch of people hoping Biden gets COVID and dies...so there is that.

https://hexbear.net/post/515198

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[–] YeetPics@mander.xyz 2 points 2 years ago

You want to form your own opinion, so go check it out.

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