• daftantimony@lemm.eeOPEnglish
      13·
      1 year ago

      It’s an affectionate nickname for Hexbear. You might know that they behave like a bunch of 4channers, throwing and smearing their poop around; and Hexagon=>6 sides (must spell it out clearly, else the smart kids won’t understand)… both combined make 6chan.

      • vivadanang@lemm.eeEnglish
        4·
        1 year ago

        can anyone explain why I keep seeing their garbage after attempting to block everything hexbear related? I don’t even mind the occasional tankie that much, but this lot is fucking bonkers.

        • Rooty@lemmy.worldEnglish
          4·
          1 year ago

          Change your instance, i’m on lemmy.world which has defederated hexbear and I see no tankie posts.

          • vivadanang@lemm.eeEnglish
            1·
            1 year ago

            had issues with lemmy.world for a while and went to lemmy.ee, will give that a try I suppose.

            I just can’t fathom why I can’t eliminate .hex from my feed lol

            • Rooty@lemmy.worldEnglish
              2·
              1 year ago

              As a stopgap measure you can use the Connect app, which has instance blocking.

        • yata@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          3·
          1 year ago

          Lemmy and federation is very buggy. I’m from an instance which hexbear defederated from, but I sometimes still see posts from hexbear when browsing all+new. It seems like it doesn’t always get around to checking defederation when fetching new threads.

      • nanoUFO@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        4·
        1 year ago

        behave like a bunch of 4channers,

        4chan isn’t tankies and 4chan isn’t just /pol/ there are plenty of boards on there that have no equivalent anywhere including reddit or lemmy like /lit/. I bet people on hexbear haven’t even read a book in the last decade.

        • daftantimony@lemm.eeOPEnglish
          7·
          1 year ago

          I never said anything about political inclinations, it’s the trollish and toxic behaviors that are comparable. You even quote me saying “behave”. Don’t be *a Hexbear please…

          *Thanks for pointing out the typo, dear 6channers, much appreciated :)

            • daftantimony@lemm.eeOPEnglish
              6·
              1 year ago

              kinda hypocritical no?

              No. Feigning to not understand, or distorting a point is something that Hexbear users love to do. That’s why I asked you to not be like them.

              • nanoUFO@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
                3·
                1 year ago

                At this point you are being intellectually dishonest and I don’t see how you can moralize with that kind of meta with responding to people. Goodbye.

        • TopRamenBinLaden@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          6·
          1 year ago

          True, the majority of 4chan users definitely seem to lean right, at the very least in a trolling manner, so the comparison isn’t very apt. I honestly just thought 6chan was another chan at first. I know 8chan was a thing.

          Hexbear can be annoying, but the a lot of them are reasonable, it’s just that the obnoxious ones always seem to be the loudest.

          • FaeDrifter@midwest.socialEnglish
            4·
            1 year ago

            Isn’t that like saying not all cops are bad, the bad cops are just the ones you always hear about. (In the US)

            For sure, pretty much every individual cop I’ve interacted with has been very reasonable. Doesn’t mean the policing system isn’t rotten to the core when it’s protecting the bad cops.

          • nanoUFO@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
            1·
            1 year ago

            /lit/ is mostly clean I had made thread there that were 150 comments deep and no insults or slurs. You can also use 4chanx to filter comments too. Lot of stuff on /g/ is good too especially when it gets technical.