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They have a very different view of what constitutes an unsafe space, for the last day or so every time I saw a username with pronouns my whole body would tighten up anticipating some randomly aggressive attack post. I hate that they made me feel that way about something that should be good. I will not miss them.

I could not be more relieved.

On the one hand, it sucks that there is a rift between communities who seem to have genuine care for LGBTQ issues. However, through the past day, being exposed to Hexbear's community and content has made me extremely concerned.

Hexbear's server content is full of great big red flags. Even a brief skim through some top posts and comments showed a lot of content I found alarming. There are posts denying genocide, calls to violence, blatant Russian propaganda, apologists galore for authoritarianism, and the constant assurance that anyone not agreeing with these ideas was obviously a Fascist. And this was all wrapped in what I can only describe as a weird layer of smug superiority - that they are the only ones who "get it". I don't have a high opinion of any community that seems to think having the a word like "tankie" applied to them is problematic while accepting the previously mentioned content as okay. To make matters worse, a lot of Hexbear user's I've seen in other communities posting, it is often antagonistic if not just straight-up trolling. I just don't see the value in any of this.

I just wish we had become defederated sooner and not been exposed to a community that seems to be so rife with arrogant, extremist trolls that are hell-bent on stirring up drama.

Damn, I'm not one for drama but Holy shit their comments on that thread are fucked up, they seem like a really toxic and unhealthy bunch of people.

We're generally better off without extremists who's only defense to anything they don't like is attacking others and badmouthing them.

It really shows their general character and maturity levels.

Also, it seems like there are a lot of other instances asking mods for defederation due to toxicity.

I think the fact that they’re fully defederating over accusations against a single community instead of just blocking that community is telling.

You cannot leave me because I'm leaving you, well that situation solved itself. That said I am concerned about 196.

real you can't fire me i quit vibes from them

Perfect outcome, they get to feel superior despite doing nothing - which is their only goal - and we get to clean their mess.

Honestly, thank God.

Thank fucking God

Thank fuck. I was getting really tired of people picking fights everywhere over dumb shit.

This explains why my feed has been less hectic since I got on a few minutes ago.

Bye, have a beautiful time!

Lol. For a group of people regularly defending genocide and calling for people to get the wall, they sure are easily offended. I wonder if this distortion of facts, and trying to gaslight us is due to some sort of mass psychosis or plain narcissism.

Note that the removed comments that triggered this have since been restored: https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/comment/2097409 Looking at the comment history of the involved users the second comment from Nakoichi is referencing a different comment thread (https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/comment/2097384). While I don't agree with the initial take, it didn't need to be removed at all, much less with that reason.