1y ago

how is Lemmy going for you?

Now that a lot of the commotion has subsided I'm just curious to know how y'all are finding the Lemmy experience in general and whether you use it regularly like you did reddit?

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I've only been active on Hexbear really since the cth sub got banned and we built that space, but I really like how federation has gone and the influx of new slop and occasional lost libs/chuds.
- I know what some of those words mean
  
  Hexbear: the 3rd or so biggest instance on lemmy and by far the most active. It's where all the people with pronouns next to their names come from. We're a left unity trans positive community that's been around for 3 years, mostly made up of Marxists and Anarchists. We were just recently federated with the rest of lemmy about a week ago.
  slop: Food for the hogs. Content. Posts. Discussion. Drama. Romance. Danger!
  
  cth: a podcast no one really cares about. A community of leftists outgrew a forum that used to be about them. It got banned from reddit and the refugees turned into Hexbear.
  libs: Liberals. From our perspective this includes about 65-75% of the American political landscape. This includes all democrats and about half republicans. These are people who support capitalism. Bernie Sanders is a lib. They are annoying and will betray you in the end but they're usually the people who can be reasoned with so it's extra frustrating.
  chuds: Fascists. The other 25-35%. Confederate flag waving people who eat burgers as a protest against global warming. Kyle Rittenhouse stans. Coal rollers. The people who will kill you first if you have good politics. They believe above all else in natural hierarchies so the capitalists will turn to them when the left challenges theirs. That's how Hitler happened.
  
  thanks for the detailed description. feels like my online vocabulary expanded significantly
  
  cth: a podcast no one really cares about. A community of leftists outgrew a forum that used to be about them. It got banned from reddit and the refugees turned into Hexbear.
  what do you mean? people definitely care about citations needed.
  
  Once you understand the kind of people who are on hexbear, things will become more clear. Just go to some of their profiles and have a look at what they post
  
  I think a considerably chunk of them are bots
  
  It's not impossible, but I doubt it...
  
  I hadn't heard of them until I saw lemmy.ca blocked them earlier. If Canadians are blocking you for being hateful that might be saying something.
  
  They’re one of the oldest instances around 3 years old but only recently federated with other instances.
- This post is making me want to add hexbear to a word filter. Specially the blatant 4chan lingo such as "slop".
  
  Is 'slop' from 4chan? I thought that was one of our originals?
  
  “If I encounter a word I do not know used by communists, it must be from 4chan because I am the most highly educated and professional person ever to walk the Earth.” — liberals
  (I am Jewish and have been terminally online for years and have never heard that ‘slop’ is anti-semitic. Sounds like libs are just using anti-semitism as an empty accusation to silence communists to me, especially heinous when you consider who funded the Nazis in the first place and who rescued the Nazis after the Soviets destroyed them.)
  
  It's their way of saying "low quality", usually thrown at things they deem forced by a marketing team. Always gave me some anti-semitic vibes when I used to see it used in context but I'm not sure why off the top of my head.
  
  It's absolutely not a 4chan thing, "slop" has been used for aaaaaaaages.
  I'd say it's just an american thing, possibly specifically new york? idk
  
  I don't believe there is any 4chan connection - instead slop is used in the sense of
  sometimes in the plural) Scraps used as food for animals, especially pigs or hogs.
  Synonyms: hogwash, swill
  
  This might be why. I hate that I’ve seen this stuff before.
  
  That's gross (thank you for sharing the link, I haven't heard of that one) but it is 100% not what hexbears mean as they refer to their own forum posts as "slop". They just mean low effort "content" in the more generic English slang sense.
  
  Yes you’re right (though I am not familiar with hexbear). The chan slang was just derived from the standard slang and once you learn about them it can taint your interpretation of it because dogwhistles can sometimes be subtle.
  
  Yeah, it’s ironic. Cause the slop is for US
  WE consume the slop, it’s not an insult for the posts it’s an ironic insult towards ourselves for being too online

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