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Now that a lot of the commotion has subsided I'm just curious to know how y'all are finding the Lemmy experience in general and whether you use it regularly like you did reddit?

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[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I've only been active on Hexbear really since the cth sub got banned and we built that space, but I really like how federation has gone and the influx of new slop and occasional lost libs/chuds.

[–] [email protected] 41 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I know what some of those words mean

[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Hexbear: the 3rd or so biggest instance on lemmy and by far the most active. It's where all the people with pronouns next to their names come from. We're a left unity trans positive community that's been around for 3 years, mostly made up of Marxists and Anarchists. We were just recently federated with the rest of lemmy about a week ago.

slop: Food for the hogs. Content. Posts. Discussion. Drama. Romance. Danger! Hoggers

cth: a podcast no one really cares about. A community of leftists outgrew a forum that used to be about them. It got banned from reddit and the refugees turned into Hexbear.

libs: Liberals. From our perspective this includes about 65-75% of the American political landscape. This includes all democrats and about half republicans. These are people who support capitalism. Bernie Sanders is a lib. They are annoying and will betray you in the end but they're usually the people who can be reasoned with so it's extra frustrating.

chuds: Fascists. The other 25-35%. Confederate flag waving people who eat burgers as a protest against global warming. Kyle Rittenhouse stans. Coal rollers. The people who will kill you first if you have good politics. They believe above all else in natural hierarchies so the capitalists will turn to them when the left challenges theirs. That's how Hitler happened.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago

thanks for the detailed description. feels like my online vocabulary expanded significantly

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago

cth: a podcast no one really cares about. A community of leftists outgrew a forum that used to be about them. It got banned from reddit and the refugees turned into Hexbear.

what do you mean? people definitely care about citations needed.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Once you understand the kind of people who are on hexbear, things will become more clear. Just go to some of their profiles and have a look at what they post

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I think a considerably chunk of them are bots

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's not impossible, but I doubt it...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I hadn't heard of them until I saw lemmy.ca blocked them earlier. If Canadians are blocking you for being hateful that might be saying something.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

They’re one of the oldest instances around 3 years old but only recently federated with other instances.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

This post is making me want to add hexbear to a word filter. Specially the blatant 4chan lingo such as "slop".

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Yeah, it’s ironic. Cause the slop is for US

WE consume the slop, it’s not an insult for the posts it’s an ironic insult towards ourselves for being too online