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.
There are plenty of "less explicitly political" comms on hexbear if you are interested: https://hexbear.net/communities
And yes, left unity is important
Yeah honestly daily posting on HB itself is startlingly non-political
Probably one of the best parts too. It would be nice to draw in other users so those comms got some more activity.
No one is interested in what the ebil tankies have to say about cooking or movies though
That is true and you are right to say it.
Its not fair that you're cuter then me