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Hexbear's admin twisting reality (and we haven't defederated them yet 😋)

The original french post that motivated hexbear's decision : https://jlai.lu/post/11504685

There is already various posts here giving us reasons to defederate them, one of them calling to violence against french :

On jlai.lu :

Dessalines, one of Lemmy main developper is taking part :

Some of hexbear supporter denying being part of an attack without any apologies :

Should we support Lemmy or migrate to another software as Mbin, piefed, sublinks ? Time will tell.

Mbin

Mbin's roadmap : https://github.com/orgs/MbinOrg/projects/5
One instance running Mbin : https://kbin.earth/

Piefed

Piefed's roadmap : https://codeberg.org/rimu/pyfedi/projects/7800
Flagship's instance : https://piefed.social/
Piefed news : !piefed_meta@piefed.social

Sublinks

Sublinks's roadmap : https://github.com/orgs/sublinks/projects/1/views/6
Flagship's instance : https://demo.sublinks.org/
Sublinks news : !sublinks@discuss.online

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"reactionay" = going against their tankie ideology.
Eventually, it's a good thing they decide to delist the instance (while jlailu is discussing it too), it will reduce useless conflicts.
- I love it when they say reactionary. It's the ultimate projection. Like reactionaries are exactly what they are, urging to return to Soviet-era communism.
  their only idols are long-dead dictators or people who want to return to how things previously were. Like Winnie the Pooh wanting Taiwan to return to China
  Reactionaries full and through
- Yeah I came to comment that 'reactionary' as a reason. Their instance has a lot of reactionary content, not to make a blanket statement of all. Sounds like a pot calling kettle.

As Hexbear becomes increasingly isolated, more and more of their users will start making accounts on other instances. After migrating, they'll still have their toxic post truth discource, but they'll be harder to identify at a glance. I'm definitely not against cutting ties with Hexbear, I was in favor of it when Lemmy world did it. But now I'm dreading the thought of those users trickling back into my feed one by one. For my personal Lemmy experience, the existence of Hexbear was great in that it kept so many toxic people contained in a place away from me.
- Deplatforming works. Some Hexbear users might trickle away, but the inconvenience of needing two accounts discourages most of the casual dogpile trolls.
- I highly doubt there's much more migration than before. Hexbear existed as a standalone site with no federation for years before the reddit apiocalypse caused the mass migration to Lemmy.
  
  They spawned from CTH on Reddit getting banned into dirt years ago. That's actually a good chunk of how Lemmy came to be in the first place iirc. Hexbear has been on Lemmy for years, but only because they socially-squeezed themselves off of reddit with their classic "style".
- If they join another instance, they will not benefit from as much local support, the social pressure will eventually discourage them, and they will probably just go back to using only their local bubble.
  
  Their time in isolation from when reddit banned chapo did them no favors. When it was banned it was a flavor of radicalism that was tolerable.
  They've devolved into something much worse, in the style of the red guard in China killing avowed communists for not being communist enough, and thinking it's a good thing. They're just screaming into the void making all leftists look unreasonable and bad, and wondering why no one can stand them.
  I've yet to have an interaction with someone from hexbear post reddit exodus where I thought to myself, "you know I bet they're pretty chill in real life."
- They already do that. They do it a lot on Reddit.
  I know some of them who have like five reddit alts they cycle through in a single week. Truly bizarre
- If they keep their attitude they'll be kicked off most instances, generally they won't be able to circlejerk so after a while I'd expect them to self-isolate again.
  
  You're probably right. Case in point: Linkerbaan was eventually banned, although it did take a long time.
  The opinions on this were interesting. My simplified take: One person thinks it's even worse than I thought. One person thinks it's not going to be a problem in the first place. And 3 persons think that it's a problem that will resolve itself, so no reason to worry.

Fantastic post! thank you!
- Eh, it's open source, which intrinsically limits the power the devs have over the software.
  
  It's open source, yeah, but is there much of a future in it? Lemmy as a whole doesn't make a whole lot of original content.
- definitely see Lemmy dying off with how shitty the devs are
  We had a similar conversation yesterday already, but I don't get the hate towards them as devs. As instance admins, probably, but as devs, what better alternative do we have?
  
  Dessalines is just so cringe I find myself unable to separate the art from the person. And Nutonic is just a transphobe.

What do they expect an admin to do with their user? It's not our job to treat them like a school children.
Also what's the progress of sublink? Didn't heard from it for a while.
- I updated my post so you can check their progress :)
- What do they expect an admin to do with their user? It’s not our job to treat them like a school children.
  If not, then how come an admin can ban a user?
  
  Because they breaching the common rule? Or being a spam account? Being reactionary is usually not a ban-able offence, and we admin isn't here to control and fine tune how everyone act to a specific way.
  I mean, if you or any other admin want to do that, feel free, but i ain't got time for that, and i trust you adult for solving common conflict yourself.
- Unfortunately it looks like SubLinks is mostly dead. They haven’t made any changes to the code since August
  
  I definitely wouldn't hold my breath. Piefed is much more promising

And yet when you point out that the main devs of lemmy are also mods on those instances, some people don't see a problem..
- How is the mobile app support on Mbin?
  People are aware, but Lemmy is still the most feature rich software at the moment

Two Fascists walk into the bar...
How many communists are in Russia?

I'm not a fan of defederation in general, because I think, communication can break down barriers, and we need to confront differences and not build further fronts - as this would only help fascist regimes like Russia.
But some people seem to only want to troll or keep hanging on some ideology without regard for reality...

Do any of these alternatives have an ios app, because as soon as they do, I’m switching.
I can’t support an app developed by pro-russians.
- Not at the moment unfortunately. Hopefully that will come soon, especially for Piefed.

How is repeating that "il y a 23 heures" supposed to be insulting? Are they trying to say the post should have been taken down by now?
There are plenty of comments on Hexbear and .ml from some of the very users in the screenshots that should have been taken down yet remain up to this day. They should go back and comment that on their own works of hatred.
- They are not repeating "il y a 23 heure".
  Those are the public upvote that you can see on Mbin under "favorite" tab. "Il y a 23 heure/11 pm ago" represent the time elapsed since their upvote.
  Example here : https://kbin.earth/m/cat@lemmy.world/t/633634/It-is-a-good-day-for-naps/favourites
  
  Thank you, that makes so much more sense.

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