Say “aye” or yes" if you are in favour defederation.

Say “nay” or “no” if you are against defederation.

Only users who have a sh.itjust.works account can vote. Fresh accounts won’t be counted.

  • ClaraBecker@threads.net
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    8310 months ago

    Yes.

    I’m sensitive to racial issues but the way they go about discussing them devalues them in the same way that I used to devalue them, and reliving my mistakes in every comment section is killing me. Also, everything turns into twitch chat after they arrive.

  • @lutillian@sh.itjust.works
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    10 months ago

    Aye. If I want to see their content I can read it on a hexbear amount. They just flood my feed with memes and only barely tangentially related comments that are trying to bait people into saying something that they think gives them the high ground. They’re like the arch Linux users of identity politics.

  • @Kite@sh.itjust.works
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    10 months ago

    Aye.

    I knew that the toxicity of reddit was affecting me, but I didn’t realize just how much until the move to Lemmy back in June. Everything was just so nice, people just happily chatted in comments, most disagreements were talked through or an “agree to disagree” arrangement was reached. Seeing the rude, angry people and the trolls creep back in was so disappointing (though I do realize it’s inevitable. I used to mod forums back in the day.) Having a good chunk of those negative types on one instances is a positive thing, though. With the tools at hand, we can nip it in the bud by just blocking the lot of them.

    Something I think people forget in all these many posts about blocking instances is that blocking is not a permanent thing. The mods aren’t hitting the big red button and nuking the instance from existence forever. It can be undone. Times change, people change, forums/subreddits/instances change as they age. If it looks like things may have improved in a blocked instance, the ban can be lifted.

  • Nakoichi [he/him]
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    5610 months ago

    Yes you should. This instance should not have been federated at all and I regret having voted in favor. You’re a bunch of racist fucks.

    • falkerie71
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      4910 months ago

      Racist because of one parody image of Xi the Pooh that was clearly not even aimed at Asians in general? Jesus you guys are a bunch of snowflakes. And that’s coming from an Asian/Taiwanese myself. We don’t need your self imposed superiority to feel sorry for us. We know what’s racist and what’s not. Thank you.

      • AntiOutsideAktion [he/him]
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        4210 months ago

        You can paint the president of the world’s largest asian country yellow and I I’ll tell you it’s fine

        pick me

        • falkerie71
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          2110 months ago

          You can depict the current leading party in Taiwan as maggots and I could also tell you it’s fine. In fact, people here already do. The CCP just so happens to be that sensitive about a fucking yellow cartoon bear. Hilarious I know. If they someday be also sensitive about a pink alien and we make fun of it, are you going to tell me it’s racist against aliens?

      • @icepuncher69@sh.itjust.works
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        3110 months ago

        They are just larpers that like the whole USSR/CCP asthetic,my advice is to not engage them since they will just piss you of and no valuable conversation is gonna come out from it.

        • Nakoichi [he/him]
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          3510 months ago

          I am literally an anarchist who has also done more praxis than most of your instance combined.

            • Grimble [he/him,they/them]
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              10 months ago

              Yeah i bet theyd be much better off in the other Online Anarchist Spaces, where they have contests to see who can hold the least anarchist value and still call themself one, more time is spent fighting Twitter Stalinists and overseas bureaucrats than asking for clean water for minorities in their own country, and any given user could randomly be a toddler or a DHS sockpuppet. So fun, safe, and productive.

            • GarbageShoot [he/him]
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              710 months ago

              Yeah, that time could be spent celebrating worthless morons like Makhno instead of working with people with whom you have common class interests.

            • axont [she/her, comrade/them]
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              1310 months ago

              People who realize we have more problems than minor theoretical differences? Nakoichi is an actual organizer who works with indigenous people and that deserves respect if you’re any kind of leftist

                • axont [she/her, comrade/them]
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                  1210 months ago

                  point at the theory that says I shouldn’t try to work with every possible leftist in my area. I live in Texas. There aren’t enough of us to go around already and we don’t need to start splitting ourselves over irrelevant shit like the Spanish Civil War.

            • @winterayars@sh.itjust.works
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              910 months ago

              As an anarchist: like all anarchists (in the English speaking West) do this, anarchism is a small movement.

              At the same time, i just spent a bunch of time arguing with a pair of Hexbear accounts that are probably Russian state media so uh… yeesh.

            • GarbageShoot [he/him]
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              810 months ago

              One who isn’t a moronic splitter and understands that the imperial core is their actual enemy

  • BelieveRevolt [he/him]
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    5310 months ago

    Isn’t it funny how this poll was started by the person who moderates the community with the racist banner? Apparently their opinion counts for something over here 🤔

    • @goat@sh.itjust.worksOP
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      10 months ago

      those damn Chinese citizens making racist memes of themselves!

      (for those unaware, Xi Jinping as Winnie the Pooh originated from Chinese citizens making fun of their government)

      • booty [he/him]
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        3910 months ago

        a chinese person did not make that image of xi with his skin tinted yellow

        • @goat@sh.itjust.worksOP
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          2010 months ago

          Not much is known about them, no, but they were born in China. Considering China’s lack of diversity, chances are is that they are ethnically Chinese.

          • Nakoichi [he/him]
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            10 months ago

            See this is racist as fuck. You have any idea how many ethnic groups exist in China?

            What next you’re gonna tell me that Africa isn’t diverse just because there are mostly dark skinned people there?

            This is the sort of unexamined racism people are pointing out to you and your only defense is “Nuh uh, I can’t be racist because I never say slurs to people’s face”.

            You people have a childlike interpretation of the world.

          • Zuzak [fae/faer, she/her]
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            1110 months ago

            We’re not talking about the original meme, we are talking about you changing the skin color of a Chinese person to be yellow. That’s all you.

            Just because someone makes a joke about a group they’re a part of doesn’t mean that you then get to take it way further and way more racial.

            • @goat@sh.itjust.worksOP
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              Of a Chinese person? You mean the Leader of China, not just a Chinese Person, a very powerful, very corrupt dictator.

              If it is as racist you claim, why aren’t any other Chinese people in these memes portrayed as whinnie the pooh? Why is it only Xi jinping?

      • RoomAndBored [he/him, any]
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        10 months ago

        Holy shit can’t even spell the man’s name right. Quick. Without looking at Wikipedia, what’s Xi (Jin)ping’s family name?

  • @31337@sh.itjust.works
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    4310 months ago

    Aye.

    They’re obviously here just to troll and brigade. The offer nothing of value, while making this instance more annoying.

  • Platypus
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    3910 months ago

    Aye. They’re more or less another Exploding Heads: an echo chamber with a potent and very precise set of opinions which they smear all over any wall they can find.

  • Doofus Magoo
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    3710 months ago

    Nay.

    My beliefs aren"t so fragile that they’re threatened by opposing viewpoints, even those that may not be put forth in good faith.

    And I can simply block (the relatively small (?) proportion of) users that don’t engage in good faith.

  • @goat@sh.itjust.worksOP
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    10 months ago

    not sure if my vote is counted since I made the thread

    Nay (for now)

    I like messing with hexbear users, they have no idea how anything works, they can’t downvote, they’re easy to ban, and they are so damn fun to troll. Buuut they are also very annoying, so I can totally understand the yes.

    • @KevonLooney@lemm.ee
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      2610 months ago

      I block them mostly. They are easy to troll though because they spend most of their time reposting the same memes in their echo chamber. It’s like they’re all people too young to experience /b/ in the 2000s.

      Just mention something like “human rights” and see what happens.

    • Nakoichi [he/him]
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      2510 months ago

      I like messing with hexbear users

      And you call us the trolls lmao. Please just defederate already we lose nothing from not seeing your racist bullshit.

      • @goat@sh.itjust.worksOP
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        1610 months ago

        damn dude, replying to all my comments now. let’s keep it chill and reduce it to just the one thread.

    • SeventyTwoTrillion [he/him]
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      10 months ago

      they have no idea how anything works, they can’t downvote, they’re easy to ban, and they are so damn fun to troll.

      ironically enough, this was a large portion of the reason why we federated with you - fascists like you haven’t read a book or essay since high school and so fucking easy to dunk on, so we wanted to have some fun with you. it’s almost like shooting fish in a barrel, you make it too straightforward.

      unfortunately the only line you can say is “buuuhhhh Xinjiang Xi Jinping genocide?!?!!” so there’s no real constructive discussion happening anywhere here, we can write pages and pages of well-referenced prose in response and all we’ll get is “smuglord How’s the weather in Beijing, Chinese bot?” so it’s like, what are we even doing anymore.

      but, despite that fact, I vote Nay, because dunking on you is extremely entertaining and a learning experience for everybody

      • FLemmingO
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        110 months ago

        The Memmy app lets me block the instance itself but not the users. So I don’t see any of the spam from their communities in my feed but their comments still show up. Super easy to just ignore though. 🤷

  • @Shihali@sh.itjust.works
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    Aye

    Check back when we can whitelist individual members who have proven their ability to post in good faith on other instances. Or in ten years to see if Hexbear’s culture isn’t toxic anymore.