I’ve had two major issues with these guys. While not necessarily worth defederating everyone, I really don’t want to deal with hexbear because:
- ALL of their content is political. When they first showed up on my feed, I watched what posts/communities came up and how their users interacted on non hexbear posts. I’ve done my best to remove all politics from my social media. These guys only talked about politics and would go to other communities to turn a normal conversation political.
- Everything was extreme and obnoxious. I don’t understand why everyone keeps calling them polite. There was a constant “you’re with us or you’re against us”/“my beliefs are always right” behavior that was really annoying, especially in a public space that wasn’t polarized before they got there. It reminded me of this one girl from middle school who would walk into a room and loudly talk about whatever she wanted until all the other conversations petered out. They’re more than welcome to behave like that in their home, but they can’t go to a public space and expect everyone to cater to their beliefs.
From the admin on a post in Jan 2024. While I do appreciate offering the reasoning on the matter, I’m quite surprised since I checked all banned instances and hexbear seemed like an oddity amongst the mix.
Perhaps it’s so long ago that I dont remember the issues.
But to categorise the banned instances we have the likes of:
- threads
- Lemmynsfw
- maga.place
And the odd inclusion of one big instance which to me certainly feels like any average instance. Certainly no worse than lemmy.ml
Ofc its not my instance, I’m just bringing this up for reconsideration. If you don’t wanna deal with it thats your decision to make. But it certainly feels unnecessary from the outside. Especially when so many nation based comms here post political content and so do most lemmy instances.
Sincerely, PinkyCoyote/ SnokenKeekaGuard. User and mod on this instance.
It’s a troll instance. Even if their politics might be mostly good, it’s still a nicer Lemmy experience without them. Now that we can do personal instance blocks that might not be as important, but I think when the decision was made they weren’t available, and defederation means new users here don’t have to figure out how to do that just to have a pleasant experience.
I don’t miss them at all and all glad they like to stick to their server so it’s mostly effective.
Exactly. They may have some nicer communities, like ones dedicated to hobbies, but that doesn’t redeem them as whole.
