Has anyone else noticed how prevalent Hexbear posters have suddenly become? Maybe sometime last week I noticed nearly every political post had at least one long thread of Hexbear users that do nothing but repeat CCP talking points while waving anyway anything even remotely reliable as Western propaganda. That or getting all excited about trolled libs. The way they tell it, you’d think everything from DW, to Fox, to Propublica, to straight up AP News articles, are all written by the same people.
Not to mention, their info on the Fediverse observer is either straight up wrong or there’s some serious botting going on. According to that, the instance is less than a month old, yet somehow they already have one of the largest, most active userbases, along with far and away the most comments of any instance.
Seems to me like Lemmygrad on steroids. Considering we defederated from them, seems like a no-brainer to block Hexbear as well.
So glad this thread could become such a perfect microcosm of why we need to defederate.
Mention them even once and all of them show up spouting memes and essays and shit :-\ Some of their words sound great and even like that’s a place for me but somehow none of their attitudes do. Maybe at least they’ll help tilt the place a bit more toward actually-left (always good, as far as I’m concerned) if they truly are leftish but also hopefully they aren’t going to make every thread a mess of them all showing up and loudly sniffing each other’s emissions.
You may want to look through this comment section again
Oh hell, this is gross. I half-resent you bringing me to look at this.
Am just gonna go ahead and hope I’ve successfully blocked this pile of meme-trash.
Edit: So, blocking hexbear.net blocks all comments under this post, somehow?? Ugh.