Hi all, it’s whitepwrfan69, your lovely admin here at lemmy.balls. The mod team and I have been hard at work making sure that this place is fun and pleasant experience for all the users here. After days of discussion, looking through literal petabytes of data, we’ve decided the best course of action is to defederate from Hexbear. Although we very much believe in free speech, there are some pretty obvious dangers coming from federation with them. Let me list the top examples that me and the mod team fleshed out.

  • rhubarb [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
    48·
    3 months ago

    Free speech is very important to me, so I appreciate the hesitation you showed before preemptively defederating from those commies

    • SacredExcrement [any, comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
      16·
      3 months ago

      Hexbear banned me because they were constantly policing my language

      Yes I called someone a very serious racial slur and made an analogy about Trump fellating Putin to demean both of them but I don’t see why that’s relevant

  • Infamousblt [any]@hexbear.netEnglish
    38·
    3 months ago

    I don’t understand why those redfash tankies won’t even allow us the freedom to use slurs online. Haven’t they heard of freedom of speech?

  • Dirt_Owl [comrade/them, they/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
    35·
    3 months ago

    Hexbears really are a sad, strange lot. They worship Putin and Stalin and will ban anyone questions their favourite totalitarian dictators, and yet they claim to be LGBT (as if the soviets wouldn’t arrest them for being gay).

    I am convinced they are either bots or trolls

    • alcoholicorn@lemmy.mlEnglish
      30·
      3 months ago

      They’re actually conservatives pretending to be left.

      You can tell because they can’t keep the act up for more than 5 minutes before they start bashing liberals/democrats.

  • Zuzak [fae/faer, she/her]@hexbear.netEnglish
    32·
    3 months ago

    A Hexbear once told me that Pol Pot did nothing wrong and everyone who wears glasses deserves to die, and a bunch of other Hexbears agreed.

    conspicuous absence of a link

  • batsforpeace [any, any]@hexbear.netEnglish
    29·
    3 months ago

    I joined lemmy.balls to expose myself to unbiased good faith opinions and every time I engage with hexbear people I get called a shill for empire and they post images of a pig defecating, I am not even sure what it is supposed to mean. It is a sad state of affairs that they are one of the largest instances on lemmy, they are poisoning the well with their authoritarian apologia. If it wasn’t for (I don’t know what to put here actually…) I would just go back to reddit.

  • Luna [she/her, love/loves]@hexbear.netEnglish
    25·
    3 months ago

    A hexbear user’s entire existance is in bad faith. When I try to tell them to stop trolling, or to stop stanning authoritarian regimes, they send me a picture of a pig pooping on it’s balls.

  • PM_ME_YOUR_FOUCAULTS [he/him, they/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
    25·
    3 months ago

    I’m as far left as it gets, but when I see those tankie Putin lovers, it makes me want to kill all the removed removed and secure a future for my white children

    Also being linked to a pig with poop on its balls is a hate crime against me personally and I have reported it to the FBI’s Cybercrimes Division

  • roux [he/him, they/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
    24·
    3 months ago

    I just don’t understand tankies. They worship authoritarian dictators like Lenin, Marx, and Stalin, who each on their own, have killed more people than Hitler.

    Like I get it, socialism sounds good in theory but it has never worked in the real world. I mean I’m as far left as they come but even I can see that if you try to do socialism, it always ends up becoming fascism, just by a different name. Real socialism is the Nordic model and we should be striving for that, I think. It’s a tried and true method that obviously works. I tried talking about what Norway and Sweden are doing to one of those hexbear users and they just typed a wall of text about some dumb made up shit about the “global south”, whatever that is. I’ve never heard of that term until I talked with them and I’ve taken several econ and political science classes at school.

    Anyway, I think it’s best we defed from them so we can focus on more important things like getting Kamala elected.