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I'm gonna be honest, I don't browse any of the Lemmy instances defedded from Hexbear, so the only time I hear (and think) about them is when there's some drama sufficiently inane that it's spread over here (.world's recent policy changes, cis Lemmy users throwing a fit over neopronouns on the other trans instance .blahaj.zone).

This has probably given me a bit of a skewed view of, like, the more bigoted and intellectually incurious side to the instances. There are no doubt very nice people over there, but no one ever gossips about how nice another person is, so all I hear about is the creeps.

That said, I do think they have a really strange view of Hexbear over there that's partly the result of the all the arguments that broke out when Hexbear first moved over to the mainline Lemmy fork and began federating, but also partly because how Hexbear's been hyped up as some sort of evil, communist gestalt over there.

Take this comment from one of the threads in your recent post for example:

Hexbear was never federated with .world, from what I've seen browsing through the commenters account they've never made an account on any instance other than .world. This isn't the first time I've seen someone say something like this, whenever this inter-instance drama comes up again, you get comments like this from instances that never federated. It's like people have fixated on an idealised version of us to the point at which they have some sort of collective false memories of a much more aggressive Hexbear than the one that really exists.