I keep hearing the term in political discourse, and rather than googling it, I’m asking the people who know better than Google.

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    I actively ban hexbear’s entire instance. I relish the fact that I simply can’t see all the hexbear responses to this thread. I don’t think I’ve ever met anyone on hexbear (pre banning) that was even remotely open to considering other viewpoints. It just became so toxic, so quick, whenever their users get involved.

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      There are no hexbear responses because .world is defederated from Hexbear. Hex has little tolerance for liberalism in my experience, because that’s the default on the english-speaking internet.

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        I’m confused. Maybe I don’t understand federation as well as I thought.

        ~~This post originates on .ml, right?

        So what does .world’s federation status with hexbear have to do with my ability to see hexbear posts on .ml?~~

        Edit: Ah, no, the post does in fact originate on .world so .world’s federation status with hexbear is determinant for the lack of hexbear posts, not my individual blocking of the instance.

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          Yep, the comm is .ml but the poster is .world, ao it’s like it’s invisible to anyone that can’t see both .ml and .world.

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      I relish the fact that I simply can’t see all the hexbear responses

      I don’t think I’ve ever met anyone on hexbear (pre banning) that was even remotely open to considering other viewpoints.

      Uhuh

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        Ah right - oh well, however it’s achieved I don’t have see every post in my feed turn into a discussion with two sharply defined poles: Nazis and communism.