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Deferated from hexbear.net

Sorry (🍁) we did this without making a post, but after receiving several complaints we defederated from hexbear.net yesterday.

Here's a few quick examples of poor conduct by hexbear users:

They warned their users to behave themselves, but that didn't work: https://hexbear.net/post/280770?scrollToComments=false

Please read and respect the rules of the community instance in which you are posting/commenting. Please try to keep the dirtbag lib-dunking to hexbear itself. Do not follow the Chapo Rules of Posting, instead try to engage utilizing informed rhetoric with sources to dismantle western propaganda. Posting the western atrocity propaganda and pig poop balls is hilarious but will pretty quickly get you banned and if enough of us do it defederated. Realize that you are a representative of the hexbear instance when you post on other instances.

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  • Good work! Thank you. Hexbear users are trolls. They’re not in it for discussion in good faith. I’ve blocked a few offenders here and there but honestly I think the culture there is so toxic that we’re better off not being federated with them.

    • 100% agree that they are trolls. They flood any China news posts (that's not on lemmy.world) with a truckload of pro-China comments, taking advantage of the fact that a sizeable portion of Lemmy users won't be able to see and downvote them. Whenever someone replies to them with well-thought-out arguments supporting "the western authoritarians," half of them replies with huge and ugly emojis, while the other half parrots more Chinese propaganda (that actually sound well-written if you disregard the fact that China is an oppressive regime).

  • In my opinion, good choice. It had to be done. Won't be missed.

  • I saw some reallllly really sketchy takes from some @hexbear accounts on the fediverse, but my instance had already defederated from them without much fanfare, so I didn't know exactly what their deal was (our admin has a really reasonable head on his shoulders.)

    This clears up a lot.

  • Not directly affected here (i'm at a different instance), but it's pretty easy to spot their users, they behave like it's 4chan or some shit discord server, stickers everywhere. No wonder reasons 2 and 3 are spot on.

    Posting (...) pig poop balls is hilarious

    Only if you're a fucking idiot

  • I have been visiting hexbear recently. I have discovered that there is a great deal of content there that is important to me and that I have been "protected" from. It's clearly a legitimate instance with a dedicated administration team. The Lemmiverse is moving fast and changing dramatically. Would @Shadow@lemmy.ca, @smorks@lemmy.ca, et al consider reviewing this decision now that it is about a year later?

    • Always open to reconsidering things. Can you give some examples of the content you're missing?

      Tbh when I go look at their local feed it just seems like all shitposts

      • For example, c/food is the best general population food forum I've ever seen for my particular needs. A lot of the non-vegan parts of the site is not just tolerant but considerate to vegans. That's frigging unheard of. I don't know what the big deal with shit posters is, but that is hardly the only or defining feature of the culture.

        I feel like if you wade into a community you're not a member of and don't understand looking for shit posts, a lot of things are going to look like shit posts.

  • Did they do any of this spamming on your instance? They've kept most of that to their own instance but they definitely dont back down when someone from another instance says some dumbass shit.

    Stupid move you should really feel bad. I feel bad for your users.

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