Seriously, they’re doing my bits for me!
Lemmygrad on steroids
Our grad comrades catching way to many strays since we federated.
The other day someone called hexbear “lemmygrad-lite”. Moving up in the world ig
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That was the nudge I needed to make an account over here. I joined midwest.social because it was an explicitly leftist server. I would have been very sad to lose access to the good posts here now that I know about them, and honestly I’m pretty baffled at the number of users native to that instance who are bitching about you all in that thread.
Edit: thank you all so much for the warm welcome ❤️
Welcome to the bear site! We’re happy to have you.
If you haven’t gotten a welcome glad to have you here.
It’s a little chaotic, there are struggle sessions, but so long as people come with actually open minds it’s generally incredibly friendly here.
Welcome, please enjoy the fine selection of emojis
One of us one of us
I also joined midwest.social because they claimed to be an explicitly leftist instance. It would be extremely disappointing if they defederate.
Hey just letting you know midwest.social does defederate lemmygrad
Welcome!
Welcome to hexbear <3
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What’s up with Hexbear? They think everything I post is Western Propaganda, why would they ever think that?
repeat CCP talking points while waving anyway anything even remotely reliable as Western propaganda.
Now this is dialectics
Honestly defederation is a really awful part of the fediverse. It would be so much easier to just let people block the instances they want instead of leaving it up to the mods to control what information users get, that’s one of the main criticisms of reddit too
I don’t want to be spoonfed the same rhetoric by the same people over and over, I like reaching out and actually listening to what people have to say and decide for myself - now to do that I have to make an account here instead of just browsing with my regular instance
One of us one of us
We’re a cult we’re a cult we’re a cult!Wait I think one of the other instances did accuse of being a cult…
Which isn’t entirely wrong.
Cult of the lamb but it’s a bear that’s hexagonal
welcome, comradethanks!
Watching all the chaos that has ensued from the “brigading” is what pushed me to actually make an account on this instance too. You all seem like a really wonderful group of people beneath the pile of emojis and dunking and I found myself genuinely saddened by the idea of defederation so soon after Hexbear started making the place fun.
Yeah I have to say, I don’t think I’m a full blown communist but it was a real breath of fresh air to see people genuinely argue against the mind implanted hegemonic liberal narratives so many just believe intrinsically…
honestly when I joined I was a bit scared but I’ve been treated far nicely here than any other community I wanted to ask questions to, even generally leftist ones like vegans and such
Fyi a lot of people become full-blown communists by interacting with communists
eh I’d have to cross a lot of barriers to consider myself that but for now I’ll stay
Welcome fellow -ite!Thank you for the warm welcome!
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Welcome!
thanks!
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As I understand it, Hexbear has existed for years before federating with the rest of the network. Someone commented a couple months ago about the closing of the Chapo Traphouse subreddit (2020, same as r/theDonfuck) and users moving there. I believe they already had a strong community before linking up with other instances.
I may be wrong on the details and welcome corrections. Hexbear users: I considered joining your instance when I was still a lurker. Try not to crucify me if I got anything wrong.
I offer you a fishe honored visitor!Yep, I think we added some features which broke compatibility with mainline lemmy and it took a while to merge back, but we’ve been around for 3 years.
It mostly was pronouns iirc
Our pronouns were too powerful for lemmy
looking for more pronouns to eat
We were like the second or third most active subreddit on reddit for a while, and when Spez shut us down some quick thinking people created hexbear as a liferaft. We’ve been growing and mutating in the dark for years while the admins and devs worked on getting our fork from early lemmy to a point where it could re-join mainstream lemmy, which is why we seem like we exploded from nowhere.
I literally have no idea what any of this federation stuff is or what it means
It just when different lemmy instances (servers) share content and user interactions instead of existing on one giant instance like reddit.
I can’t believe these willingly federated instances are brigading hexbear!
Don’t they know you’re supposed to only stick to your local instance and that anyone who comments from another instance is a bot?
It’s funny this is the same user whose comment I replied to 10 hours ago telling them about Hexbear being one of the OG instances (which is why it has a lot of users), but they go ahead and make the same thinly veiled “omg they’re botting!” accusation 4 hours later in a whole ass post trying to sneak diss y’all in their home instance.
lots of bad faith actors
got his ass
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I literally thought this was a bit from a Hexbear user
I got in in this one early and have been having a lot of fun
OH THOSE MEDDLING HEXBEARS!
Now that’s good slop
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
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see pee see bots
Class interests? In my privately owned hegemonic media?
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