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We should probably be agitating on .world (hexbear.net)

submitted 1 month ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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There are a bunch of sicko neoliberals and insufferable redditors there, yes, but there are also some normal libs and a few comrades, and it seems like a good way to encourage lemmy generally to re-embrace leftism.

I've been using an alt to talk on there and it's honestly not that bad. It's a little bad, but not that bad. I think if we just try to patiently explain ourselves, we have a reasonable chance of reaching people and shifting the general political alignment.

Those of us who aren't up to dealing with ghouls (I am frequently included in this group) can just stay at home here and that's just fine.

Anyway, just an idea. I would appreciate feedback.

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[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 month ago (17 children)

I'd say we shouldn't be afraid of discussing political topics in .world, but a few outliers being too disruptive could result in defederation. So the "patiently explain ourselves" part seems like the really important thing to me here. Also, if at some point there actually is much more political debate in their communities, I'd suggest engaging with mods in good faith and to a reasonable extent with the intention of keeping the space civil.

[–] [email protected] 49 points 1 month ago (15 children)

but a few outliers being too disruptive could result in defederation

they preemptively defederated Hexbear before Hexbear could even federate

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 month ago (10 children)

So, you're not federated to them atm?

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago

I'm not 100% sure what the federation situation is from the hexbear-retro side, but we've never been able to access any of their comms or see their posters while on hexbear.net, I only see them if I click on the little federation icon to see a post on its native instance and that instance is federated with them.

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