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"Can someone explain the hexbear community?" (lemmy.world)
submitted 4 months ago by to c/slop@hexbear.net
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I'm sorry if this breaks a rule for this sub or isn't in the right place.

I really don't know, most of the time I just lurk. I had an alt on Hexbear because they get defederated all the time, and I really enjoy their content, but it got banned because I called out Nazi propaganda about Ukraine(It's why I was banned. I'm not trying to talk politics I would like to focus on Lemmy), and I'm just very confused. The rules they referenced for the ban seem to barely apply to what I said, and in general, the server seemed like a cool place to be. I definitely felt like I was in a community where I belonged.

I'm just boggled and could really use some hand-holding on this one. In general, the rules of the Lemmyverse confuse me. I want to see everything, but the places I like most are usually defederated from the larger communities.

If this isn't right please please, just point me to where I can ask.Thanks!

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[–] 15 points 4 months ago* (5 children)

It's the leftist version of lolcowing and fixer syndrome but with a missionary bent; some Hexbear users believe these lemmy dipshits represent an accurate sample size of the general populace (when literally the opposite is true) and so see value in trying to proselytize to what is in reality a gaggle of several hundred reddit incels whose pedophilia and racism made them unpopular even on reddit proper

And another cohort of Hexbear users are just suffering from a sunk cost mentality concerning federation (or more accurately, its predictable failure) and see value in acting like some spurned lover "I can fix them", it's all born from the same meme that infected Hexbear three years ago, where so many convinced themselves that these "people" who crawled over here from reddit are somehow worthy of our attention and engagement, the straight-up delusion that these nazis are normies

Like I've said before, if these cockroaches are worthy of whole threads and cross-instance engagement, then let's go invite some modern 4channers over for a brawl and seal the deal

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  • [–] 14 points 4 months ago

    Tbh a lot of it is, is because its the only distraction I have right now. Dunking on libs, shouting at the germans what I want to shout at them irl is a quick dopamine hit before I look at everything that needs to be done (as in right-now and within the area within arms reach, I can't even begin with the long-term).

    One good aspect of it is that I can hear every counter-argument liberals come up with. These redditors are very cerebral if nothing else. They still want a cohesive world-view like we all do and they seek it in the media circus who they believe blindly like almost everyone here (here as in here in germany-cool). But then they need to make sense of all these contradictions, "Ukraine good but nazis there, hmm how does that work??"^[and the end-result is just pure gibberish https://lemmy.ml/post/44625171/24659774] and you can see the kind of stuff that comes out when they need to twist and bend facts, which anecdotes they seek refuge in.

    Seeing where all of this will end I then talk to some people on the playground, my family, wherever and they are way less misinformed, they aren't that far ahead in the centrist radicalisation. And I have seen everything they come up with already. I have read what comrades came up with and use it. As someone who isn't very articulate about stuff (unless I'm explaining maths) this is really cool because I already know what to say. But I'm not gonna lie that this is the main reason, the main reason is I have ADHD and need a break from reality fairly often.

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