I’m posting because originally when I was looking to create a Lemmy account I came across Hexbear. I read the code of conduct and TOS and to me it seemed like a great fit for me. However, after creating an account there, it seems pretty defederated.
Anyway I was curious on the happenings over there, because they have some cute custom emojis over there… but if there’s a reason they’re so defederated, I might just pretend i never made an account there
EDIT: omg I just found out this instance has cute blob emojis too :3
Ok, this isn’t really blahaj related and I think it has run its course.
They are tankies. They like China and Russia because they’re supposedly communist and ignore all the human rights violations.
It’s hilarious, because no good communist would call Russia and the CCP communism.
I was thinking to myself isn’t Russia today decidedly not communism
It’s not, and literally no one on those instances thinks that it is.
They defend it to their dying breath though
Show me one single example of it, then. You can’t, because they don’t.
More “Insist the human rights violations are capitalist/western/CIA propaganda used to fuel a culture war”. Which like yeah, the most effective propaganda is the truth and all that…
Literally no one thinks post-1991 Russia is communist. Show me a single example.
True but I’ve also seen quite a few ml users defend russia invading ukraine and calling ukrainians vermin etc
Edit: That is to say, it’s easy to think they think russia is communist when they celebrate them killing civilians as some sort of victory against imperialism
Lemmy.ml, lemmygrad, and hexbear are the 3 most well known instances to house pro CCP and Putin loyalists
I’d recommend just blocking those 3 as you’ll generally have a better time on the fediverse.
If you check !yepowertrippinbastards@lemmy.dbzer0.com you’ll find that the moderators themselves are the reasons why those instances are toxic
It’s a tankie space where people simp for authoritarian governments.
Hexbear, Lemmygrad, .ml are all part of the Tankie Triad. The real rules are all unwritten and you’ll never know them till your posts get removed and you’re banned
Their support for trans is paper thin at best, this is what Nutomic, head dev, biggest Tankie and lead admin of .ml has to say about the trans community
Do you prefer North Korea and refer to South Korea as ‘Occupied Korea’? Those are the types of people on hexbear, lemmygrad, and .ml
… no. I was banned from r/pyongyang on reddit lol
I know some of the lore but people have already answered that, so give you my experience, I joined it see what it’s like, I reported something that broke there ToS, I was then thrown on a community called “dunk tank” or something like that.
I was new to lemmy and it said in what I thought messages was that I got a message and then I responded to it
Apparently it’s against that community rules to respond to it
I was permanently banned
So, yeah hexbear is capitalist bootlickers who mask them selfs as communists.
Although tbh. Lemmy.world seems very capitalist loving but at least I don’t get instant banned because I’m new. Never had any problems with Lemmy.ml in my experience, but also I have some problems with shit just works (or whatever its called)
Hexbear was one of the earliest servers that is now part of the fediverse. It was started after chapo trap house was banned from Reddit.
Users there realized the danger of the rich being able to shut down online leftist spaces well before the first waves of reddit exodus.
They do not put up with the slightest whiff of transphobic bullshit and moderate & ban that crap swiftly.
You may hear some weird takes on the US’s global adversaries, but you won’t have to put up with weird takes on the US.
Lemmy instances are all independent and all have their own rules for posting and commenting. You will find that some communities allow things you find offensive, you will find that some communities ban things you find benign, this is decentralization in action.
If you consider yourself to be a leftist, you will find friends on the “tankie instances” (I can’t speak to lemmygrad, I’ve never interacted with them).
There are also instances that have defederated with .world, because they find it to be offensive.
Blahaj is one of the instances I generally find to be enjoyable personally.
Edit: Just wanted to add, I’ve had comments modded on hexbear and on .world, remember the rules of the instance you’re visiting.
So basically they’re just reaaallllyyy far left? Here’s the thing, I call myself a lefty, liberal, and progressive almost interchangeably. I don’t think I’d fit in there because obviously tiananmen square happened, and obviously what’s happening with Uyghur people is a goddamn travesty.
On top of that, while I think on paper communism sounds nice, in practice that’s not really the case.
Also, one of the things that bummed me out was losing access to cute custom emojis but I’ve since learned that blahaj has some
That’s not really the issue. The issue is that hexbear allows and condones harassment and bullying. They also have a lot of “tankies” which are people who defend dictatorships and genocide.
because obviously tiananmen square happened, and obviously what’s happening with Uyghur people is a goddamn travesty.
That one sentence would get removed and likely a comm ban on any of the Tankie Triad. .ml would remove it under their catchall “Rule 1: Bigotry”
cute custom emojis but I’ve since learned that blahaj has some
Blahaj could have you covered on that side!
Yep. They’re pretty much far left.
That’s a damn accurate pic describing those communities in a nutshell.
They just love simping for dictators as long as those dictators say they’re “for the people” as they’re committing crimes against humanity.
I’m not trans so I never had reason to go down this particular rabbithole, but I remember when I first I joined the platform there was some kind of commotion around Hexbear and nobody wanting to be federated with em because of their supposedly weird tankie politics. I’ve never seen any tangible evidence of this (insert lack of rabbithole following here), but reading the comments, there seems to be two stories and now I’m really curious what you find out here.
I’m not trans, but I can say that no matter the various reasons, my personal one was simple:
Everytime someone replied to one of my comments with the most asinine, absurd or just downright stupid asshole approaches, it was always hexbear.
Literally a sigh of relief when Lemmy added personal instance blocking. Immediately hit that button and never looked back.
I’ll report back with my findings!
Did a little spelunking and investigating, kinda leaning towards them all being tankies. At least in the few things I glanced at, there wasn’t anything extreme or over-the-top, but they also seemed quite happy to ban a user for very minor criticisms of the Orange Cunt and the instance mods also mod a looot of communism and CCP related communities, so ¯_(ツ)_/¯
Toying with making an account and posting a certain controversial image just to see what happens
Removed by mod
There’s an explanation for you to read: https://lemmy.world/post/1084297
Oooo there’s a bit here to read. Reading it now, thank you!
That’s over a year old and you can’t trust it because it’s on .ml, the instance known to remove all dissenting voices be it against .ml itself or China/Russia
Yeah don’t trust that source
something something 🇷🇺 🇨🇳 🪖 or whatever…
