What's going on with hexbears

Seems people frequently talk about negative experiences of them then end up banned shortly after

Also seems like people are weirdly quick to jump to their defense for the internet

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Most hexbears are stand up chaps and under normal circumstances we get along great. The main issue as far as I’m concerned is that their posting culture does not align with what I want out of my Lemmy experience.
Basically, they are fighters. They run around the fediverse picking ten arguments at a time, getting in people’s faces, escalating moderation decisions to instance admins and generally have zero chill.
Me, I like to hang out with chill people and relax and shoot the shit about video games and stuff. Yes yes I know western imperialism bad, but after the fifth time I’m done with the topic.
- I checked Hexbear a couple of times in the last weeks and although they brand themselfs as some lefty/communist/socialist community, I always thought it felt more like some edgelords being against for the sake of being against. Also the tone is pretty rude and made me think of certain Subreddits I usually avoided back when I was on Reddit.
  
  It seems to be very heavy on edge but very light on actual Marxist discussion.
  
  My wife describes that as being a pizza cutter, all edge, no point.
- Go check what's happening on shitjustworks instance currently and say that again. It's absolutely not just a problem of "posting culture", that's downplaying who they are and what they do.
  They're just straight up toxic 99% of the time and they don't seem to want to do anything about it. It's a resounding echo of a sentiment on most Lemmy instances that it is how they act and yet, I still see weird and factually wrong takes like this.
  
  I feel like we’re playing a semantics game here.
  We are definitely referring to the same behavior.
  They run around the fediverse picking ten arguments at a time, getting in people’s faces, escalating moderation decisions to instance admins and generally have zero chill.
  This is, for most people including me, toxic behavior. They have a toxic posting culture.
  yet, I still see weird and factually wrong takes like this.
  It helps if you engage with the “takes” before you label them.
  
  Point being that simply calling it a different "posting cultures" isn't just semantic, it's downplaying what they do.
  We shouldn't downplay racists, genocide deniers and trolls.
  
  I am downplaying nothing. I call it “culture” because it’s not about a substantive disagreement about politics or ideology. It’s about the way they engage with each other and the world around them. Their collective pattern of behavior. There is a word for that. It’s called culture. And it’s pretty fucking hard to break out of.
  I find your insistence to dig in here frankly a bit baffling.
  
  Calling them just "fighters" is downplaying. Calling that a simple "culture", instead using the proper call out like I did, is downplaying.
  You telling me to engage and then baffled that I "dig" is making you look like them more and more.
  It is technically "culture". It is far from being only that though, and you somehow chose the least incriminating word to describe them.
  That is baffling imo.

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