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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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  • They're a bunch of tankies who dogpile, sealion, and brigade at basically any opportunity.

    They literally have a community on their website dedicated to shitting on people they disagree with while having rules that require you to provide a link to them and not having a rule against interacting unless it's with instance admins. They'll defend it saying it's not for brigading but it's obvious what it's for. "This isn't for brigading," then doesn't condemn brigading when it happens.

  • They're annoying, like over-caffeinated teenagers, and they like to use what I presume are something like Twitch emotes that don't work outside of hexbear, which looks really stupid.

    I don't think they're evil or anything, but they're just so universally awful to deal with that I can fully support immediate no-questions-asked defederation. They're the fediverse equivalent of a decent enough guy who just fucking reeks because they refuse to ever shower or wear deodorant.

  • Personally I enjoy their antics, I prefer their brand to the one of the right wing circle jerk and if they manage to impede theirs I am more than fine about them.

  • mostly just folks very resistant to learn some quite simple things due to their overly propagandized worldview

    I'm talking about people that have trouble with basic understandings of political economy like:

    leftism : anti-capitalist :: liberal : anti-communist

    I can only imagine the shock they are experiencing

    we're mostly pretty chill if people can be chill with each other, unfortunately some folks are just uncomfortable with understanding the complexity of the world I guess

  • I jump to the defense of hexbear because, well ... I like them.

    They're spicy.

    I've seen some truly heinous, ignorant, repugnant shit on here but it's never actually been from hexbear users.

    (it's been from lemmygrad users)

    hexbear users have been outspoken and unapologetically staunch in defending their positions, but never outright bloodthirsty or antagonistic.

    or at least, maybe my sarcasm detection is being more generous than it's supposed to be, and registering false positives...? because to my view I've seen hexbears JOKE about some dark shit, but it never came across as unironically hostile to me.

    but anyway, my opinion alone won't sway the outcome. if the consensus forms firmly against hexbear, i'll just have to roll with that outcome. But i'd miss 'em, I would.

    • Yeah I think your sarcasm detector is being too generous to them.

      Here's a link to a thread (specifically a comment about why they federated) where they are talking about a recent rule change in regards to their rules of conduct.

      One of the admins response to the comment is pretty telling.

      Basically being, "keep doing what you're doing just don't do so in instance meta threads."

      Honestly sorting the thread by "top" is also pretty telling on their opions.

    • Agreed. I feel that hexbear is kinda like 4chan. Some posts are 200 IQ sarcasm, rpfagging or just geniounely schizo.

      Although on sopuli.xyz they are banned, but I sometimes checked on the hexbear instance's posts.

    • I'm with you

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