Has anyone else noticed how prevalent Hexbear posters have suddenly become? Maybe sometime last week I noticed nearly every political post had at least one long thread of Hexbear users that do nothing but repeat CCP talking points while waving anyway anything even remotely reliable as Western propaganda. That or getting all excited about trolled libs. The way they tell it, you’d think everything from DW, to Fox, to Propublica, to straight up AP News articles, are all written by the same people.
Not to mention, their info on the Fediverse observer is either straight up wrong or there’s some serious botting going on. According to that, the instance is less than a month old, yet somehow they already have one of the largest, most active userbases, along with far and away the most comments of any instance.
Seems to me like Lemmygrad on steroids. Considering we defederated from them, seems like a no-brainer to block Hexbear as well.
So glad this thread could become such a perfect microcosm of why we need to defederate.
The ban was allegedly for “promoting hate”, but in reality it was just to quash such a large leftwing sub. It’s worth noting that they were only “promoting hate” against slaveowners, who are in my mind a completely fair target. When the sub was first quarantined, the mods made a series of posts over a week or so outlining their attempts to contact the admin team so that they could address the issues that had lead to said quarantining. The admins were non-communicative, and provided no real examples justifying the quarantine, nor possible actions the mods could take to undo the quarantine.