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.

  • maaj@lemmy.caEnglish
    518·
    1 year ago

    Honestly, they helped me figure out that I’m leftist and not liberal, but if there’s that much trolling coming from them, and it bothers the majority of y’all, then I totally get defederating them. I do not agree with their views on Russia anyway.

    Edit: downvoting isn’t going to change the fact that I’m not a fan of capitalism. That’s all I mean by “I’m leftist, and not liberal” it’s the simpleist distinction between the two.

    Double edit: thank you to the folks who responded, for giving me additional perspective on the leftist diaspora(?) The “fanning out” about Russia and CCP was quite off putting and I couldn’t mentally reconcile it.

    • T (they/she)@beehaw.orgEnglish
      184·
      1 year ago

      You can be a communist and be against Marxism-Leninism. They will just call you a liberal and a traitor that is siding with imperialism.

    • HellAwaits@lemm.eeEnglish
      164·
      1 year ago

      There are plenty of leftist groups that don’t side with the East on everything. I’ve seen plenty of leftists look at China and Russia with ire. As a leftist, I hate authoritarianism and it seems like HexBear users deep-throat China and Russia’s boats.

      • Sturgist@lemmy.caEnglish
        53·
        1 year ago

        From what I’ve seen, they may claim to be far left, but act more like far right.

        And I get that if you go far enough one way you come out on the other end.

        • jerkface@lemmy.caEnglish
          5·
          1 year ago

          I think that’s just a misleading artifact of trying to describe everything with one dimension.

        • zerofk@lemm.eeEnglish
          51·
          1 year ago

          The far left and far right are often more similar than the names imply. This makes sense when you realise they are both fishing in the same pond of disgruntled people at the fringes of society (though of course not exclusively). For many, it is more about being angry at the world than it is about standing for either ideology.

          • Sturgist@lemmy.caEnglish
            31·
            1 year ago

            Fair enough, hadn’t really thought of it that way before. Thanks for the insight.

    • Sturgist@lemmy.caEnglish
      5·
      1 year ago

      Man, I’d say I’m pretty left leaning, like Anarcho Syndaclist. That said what they’re doing isn’t doing anything but damage to their cause, worse it’s making them look like the whispy lipped basement trolls they are.

      I agree with them, in a way, that the US is a dangerous entity to world stability. Their habit of handwaving away the documented atrocities in NK, DPRC, Russia etc is just plain ridiculous. Just because the US isn’t the bastion of light, truth and fair justice in the world doesn’t mean that those who openly and directly oppose them fucking are!