Let's tally up the replies to me from Hexbear users.

• One insult.
• One taunt.
• One helpful reply with a little pushback (which might be deserved).
• One reply expressing frustration with how Hexbear users are treated collectively.
• One troll.

So a minority of Hexbear users interacted reasonably, while the majority of Hexbear users did not.

I know you personally can't do much about your instance's users making a majority of posts in bad faith, but Hexbear as an instance has a bad reputation across the Fediverse right now because of their behavior.