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Can we defederate from hexbear.net? (lemmy.blahaj.zone)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I’m not sure what’s going on over there, but half the time I see a post from there or go into a comment section and it’s just…bad. Like old reddit the_donald bad. Constant trolling, etc. You TS just really bad vibes. I’ve been blocking the communities as they come up, but I’m not sure what else I can do.

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

concerning imagery with fascist roots

? what is this exactly. ive been on hexbear since it was founded and havent seen anything like that. the emojis are much smaller on hexbear itself, there is some sort of bug where that doesnt transfer to other instances, many users have been made aware and we now try to spoiler tag the emojis.

the only thing i can think of were the cute little ghost pictures that the falange in spain created, but the lgbt community in spain and hexbear adopted as a 'fuck you' to the fascists. its like taking back the word queer.

spoiler

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Unfortunately, I don't know how to find a list of users I've blocked to unblock and take screenshots, but the ones that made me wash my hands of the instance were clearly anti-semitic.

There's no situation where someone like that sits at the metaphorical table, and I don't move tables.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

idk what an antisemitic emoji would even be, i've never seen one used ever. we have emojis that have flags burning that are typically used whenever a country's government does something racist. someone proposed one for israel but we decided against it iirc because it had a star of david on it. and i doubt youre saying anything in good faith at this point, your account is 12 hours old and has only posted in this thread.

relevant emojis

spoiler

the last one is a stand in

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I've got the same user across a few instances after the piracy ban on .world. But yeah, I'm a lurker mostly. My point is, there's a particular vibe that's presented even within this threads discussion that is pervasivly toxic.

Emoji spam, constant whataboutism, etc. I'm not saying the instance is inherently bad. But the user base is pretty toxic, in my experience so far.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

i dont think its right that cishet hexbear users are posting in this thread personally, i know some of them commented here for certain. i think its very fair for our LGBT users to post here against defederation, given it would split lemmy's largest lgbt groups. and acting like that is brigading is silly, you cant brigade your own real life community. i would say thats the majority of the people who are responding to this thread from hexbear, based on what i know of the lgbt community there.