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submitted 2 years ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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 [https://lemmy.fediverse.observer/list] 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.

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[-] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

Nothing really, they just call it western propoganda. Theres no point.

[-] [email protected] 77 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Maybe some would listen if we showed them strong enough evidence, I mean all that stuff is pretty well documented, right? Aren't there like, pictures or something? At the very least, if we force them to deny strong, reputable sources, it'd make the pitch to defederate stronger.

[-] [email protected] 34 points 2 years ago

all time great bit, probably top 10 since /r/cth

[-] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

It is well documented, they have been shown sources, and they do not care.

I really hope they defed from hexbear soon.

[-] [email protected] 67 points 2 years ago

I know, I'm just asking you to share them with me so I can use them too next time.

[-] [email protected] 65 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

We have to literally disguise ourselves as libs and practically beg for a source and even when they think they're talking amongst themselves, they still can't or won't provide a source to prove their argument che-smile

[-] [email protected] 47 points 2 years ago

I had a lot of fun with that bit ngl. You'd think the Hexbear account would be a dead giveaway.

[-] [email protected] 42 points 2 years ago

This is the funniest shit yet. michael-laugh

[-] [email protected] 36 points 2 years ago
[-] [email protected] 37 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Eh, they kinda stopped responding and it's not like they were going to come back since they had nothing. I'm just glad nobody gave it away sooner, good hustle ortega-clap

[-] [email protected] 32 points 2 years ago

Honestly surprised it worked at all what with the pronouns being such a big tell

[-] [email protected] 31 points 2 years ago

The only reason I even tried was that someone else did it first and I saw they replied in ernest.

[-] [email protected] 15 points 2 years ago

I had no expectation that they'd take it seriously I just thought it'd be funny, but I'm really glad they did and you continued it

[-] [email protected] 46 points 2 years ago

Hey, did you ever manage to find those sources, I want to see them too.

[-] [email protected] 37 points 2 years ago

Yeah, hexbear is really bad.

I'm pretty sure Chyna is paying them to mess with my vibes.

There is no other way anyone could possibly disagree with my giga-brained takes on the rules based world order.

[-] [email protected] 45 points 2 years ago

Hit me up if you find anything I need some new bookmarks

[-] [email protected] 33 points 2 years ago
[-] [email protected] 18 points 2 years ago

Just send them this as evidence next time PIGPOOPBALLS

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