It's perfectly fine to view Russia as a miserably reactionary mafioso state, but the Hitlerian depiction pushed by the actual fascists in Ukraine and western media is ridiculous.

I think it's really interesting seeing an American left-leaning person who is very positive on Russia but not China. Usually it's the other way around.

Could you elaborate on your views regarding Taiwan and Myanmar in relation to China? The Taiwan one is normally sure to get a dozen people jumping down your throat, so I'd like to ask my fellows to exercise some restraint in that regard because you seem to be totally genuine and are speaking very graciously to us over what seem to sometimes be strong disagreements.

There is a complicated network of lemmy instances, and which ones are federated with which others is a perennial source of arguments. You will never find a MAGA community on hexbear's All tab, because the hexbear admins are careful to keep federation only with reasonably left wing and non-bigoted instances. Such instances do exist, but we are not federated with them.

Hexbear is hosted on a server farm somewhere, and the hexbear admins do take donations to pay for the server costs. You are correct that where and how exactly each lemmy instance is hosted varies.

We like North Korea, which we usually call the DPRK, the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, the country's actual name.

Russia is a more complicated case, because it's not AES. Russia is a capitalist oligarchy, but it's a capitalist oligarchy which finds itself at odds with the US and its puppets, so we often find ourselves in the position of giving it critical support, that is to say, supporting things it's doing such as protecting the people of Donetsk and Luhansk from Ukranian nazis, while criticizing the power structure and the bad things it's doing, such as repressing LGBT people.

could I stumble into a conservative MAGA lemmy party from the "all" tab?

It depends on what instance you’re on. Here? Pretty unlikely. Instances can use block lists or allow lists for federation, Hexbear takes the allow list approach.

hosted on a platform

You could theoretically host a home server, I don’t think many do. I don’t know hexbear’s provider, but it’s hosted in France last I knew.

Korea

Korea’s pretty cool. Not the part occupied by the US.

China

China’s pretty cool. Not the part occupied by the US.

Russia

Is anti-imperialist and anti-nazi. That part’s cool.

Are federated lemmy parties all part of the same federation?

No, each individual server/instance can choose who they federate with. You can see who Hexbear federates with by clicking "instances" (in the web ui) at the bottom of the page.

Is Hexbear locally hosted at some dudes house or is it hosted on a platform such as AWS?

On some VPS I believe.

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