I'm trying to figure out how to use lemmy, but I have questions (hexbear.net)

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I got banned from reddit for saying that Nazis aren't getting punched in the face near enough in modern times. They said that I was trying to incite violence against a group of people as if Nazism is just something you're born with. So now I'm here.

It looks familiar, but I'm confused.

I had to answer entry questions to get approved.

I think I'm seeing it as hexbear is a conglomeration of sub Reddits. But it said somewhere that I can see other people's servers somehow too. Just confused how that all works. It looks like there's no hentai porn allowed on this one, which isn't a deal breaker, but I am curious how all of the different servers mix and match and shit. Can someone please explain like I'm a redditor?

Is the equivalent of r/all just with people from hexbear? Or all of lemmy?

Also, what was the correct answer to, "what are your thoughts on Actually Existing Socialism?" I never heard of AES till today. Is the answer that it's bad because it's a dictatorship? I'd never heard the term. I'm an American, pretty sure China's bad, but realizing we got hella propaganda too. I remember when we learned in school about the labor movement during the industrial revolution that we kinda seemed to celebrate that steel mogol that got shot and returned to work the same day as being a badass that stuck it to the crazy strikers, as opposed to celebrating the Luigi. Just trying to figure out with this AES question just HOW much deprogramming I need to do.

Also, did I post this in the right spot? Lol

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[-] buckykat@hexbear.net 6 points 1 day ago

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.

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