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 [https://lemmy.fediverse.observer/list] 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.
We have to literally disguise ourselves as libs and practically beg for a source and even when they think they’re talking amongst themselves, they still can’t or won’t provide a source to prove their argument
This is the funniest shit yet.
STFU!!! you’ll ruin it!
Eh, they kinda stopped responding and it’s not like they were going to come back since they had nothing. I’m just glad nobody gave it away sooner, good hustle
Honestly surprised it worked at all what with the pronouns being such a big tell
The only reason I even tried was that someone else did it first and I saw they replied in ernest.
I had no expectation that they’d take it seriously I just thought it’d be funny, but I’m really glad they did and you continued it
I had a lot of fun with that bit ngl. You’d think the Hexbear account would be a dead giveaway.