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.

  • GarbageShoot [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
    35·
    1 year ago

    I think the fact that they’re more active in this thread than the blahaj folks is fairly emblematic of the problem.

    It’s a thread about us, so . . .

    tankie rhetoric

    My valiant neoliberal argument. Their insidious tankie rhetoric.

    Just pointing out that if this were a blahaj exclusive thread you would get a very different sense of where popular opinion actually stands.

    You can see the instance of the poster, can’t you? And it’s not like hexbear people are able to downvote posts, so our vote is (while still something) relatively weaker.

    tankie rhetoric

    • spadufEnglish
      18·
      1 year ago

      It’s a thread about us, so . . .

      It’s actually a community about us, so…

      My valiant neoliberal argument. Their insidious tankie rhetoric.

      I am a leftist.

      You can see the instance of the poster, can’t you? And it’s not like hexbear people are able to downvote posts, so our vote is (while still something) relatively weaker.

      We can’t downvote either, but a quick sampling shows over 3x as many hexbear users commenting as blahaj, so…

      • Concetta
        20·
        1 year ago

        It’s kinda brutal, I actually started this night completely on their side.

      • GarbageShoot [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
        14·
        1 year ago

        It’s actually a community about us, so…

        It’s an instance that is federated and it’s not like there aren’t people from other federated instances popping in to offer absolute bullshit.

        I am a leftist.

        Go on . . .

        We can’t downvote either, but a quick sampling shows over 3x as many hexbear users commenting as blahaj, so…

        See the first sentence, you can see where we come from. An admin isn’t going to mistake hexbear users for blahaj users, as you demonstrated with your sampling. Noted on the voting part.

        • Norah - She/TheyEnglish
          9·
          1 year ago

          I just found this thread, and I’m struggling to find discussion from users of my instance about this. It took me scrolling quite a while to see the reply from our own admin about this. It’s not just about the admins being able to see what comments are from blahaj users. I mean, I think comparing y’all to T_D is fucking bullshit. But like many other blahaj users have said by now, I want to defederate purely based off the brigading of this thread.

          I’ve told users from other instances to fuck off out of meta discussions of defederation before and I’ll tell you the same thing.

          To all the blahaj users, wasn’t it so refreshing that the admins removed top-level comments from other instance users on the kbin.social defederation post? I think that was the perfect balance, because this thread is a complete fucking shitshow. Not blaming the admins for that, they posted that thread so it would have been easier to keep on top of moderating it.

          • GarbageShoot [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
            20·
            1 year ago

            You say “brigading” but I’m just here because the thread was on the front page of Active, and I think most of the other activity from Hexbear users here can be accounted for that way. The only place where there is evidence of “brigading” is the admin’s “People of Nato” comment (which, as an aside, is just an awful take).