lol, i saw that. they were describing this place as an alt right instance and believed our pronouns were all ironic.

definitely feeds into the trope that liberals are baffled by positions outside the window of their indoctrination and the first impulse of many is to try to cram into one of the two slots that exist in their worldview.

"post-colonial theory"

"is this right wing propaganda?"

Blahaj was always going to defed us. From the beginning they were more committed to the red scare stuff than even /r/196 was.

i mentioned this wayyy back in my comment history, but am too lazy to dig it up.

don't sweat it if you end up being the excuse for them. This was all predetermined.

I'm pretty frustrated that the admin of the instance thinks we're brigading. An admin should know that we're getting their posts in our feed because we're federated. We are just a big instance and we overwhelm the level of activity they're used to seeing when it comes into our feed.

I am wondering if lemmy sorts content in a way that's causing this situation though. Maybe it considers a post more interesting if it gets more activity than a typical post on their instance. So as soon as it appears on hexbear, the score on the post goes way way up and it gets pinned on hexbear for a long time.

All this federation/defederation drama is nothing but bad faith. Our emotes are too big, bRiGadInG, wishing death to the people of NATO, blah blah blah. Let me ask a question. Why do all these instances that had already defed from lemmygrad chose, for a time, to federate with us despite us being far more active with giant emotes and so on?

It has nothing to do with giant emotes and everything to do with ideology. Lemmygrad's explicit ideology is ML, meaning there's little harm in an instance that doesn't subscribe to ML defedding the instance. "We are X while they are Y, so we are defedding from them due to ideological differences." But Hexbear's party line is left unity, meaning there's a place here for everyone who professes a form of leftism with the caveat that they aren't patsocs or anarcho-Bidenists. They can't openly defed from us due to ideological differences because as liberals, they fancy themselves as part of the left, meaning it would be strange if a so-called progressive instance would defed from a left unity instance due to ideological differences. This is open admittance that they are not actually part of the left. We know that libs are not and will never be part of the left, and they cannot cope with that.

So what happens? They federate with Hexbear for a time, fishing for a nonideological reason to defed from us. This is where the crying about giant emotes comes from. Do you think they would actually care about those giant emotes, a technical issue that would be eventually solved, if we had the same exact ideology as them? Do you think they would actually care about brigading^TM^ if we were just some quirky instance that mostly talks about fish and other sea animals?

This is the same exact energy as a supervisor who writes you up because you were 5 seconds late. If you're cool with your supervisor, you could be half an hour late. If you're not cool with your supervisor, you would be written up even if you were already in the office before your shift but your ass isn't in your assigned seat at your exact shift.

Yeah I’m gonna be real you shouldn’t be too cut up about anticommunists defederating you, in this case people are going to pester Ada enough until she decides she has to investigate, she’ll see the nonstop calls for death to america and fascists blahblahblah, and then she’ll defederate, that’s what she did with lemmygrad

I don't like this idea that we can't dunk on someone because they mod some other instance. No mods, no masters

Also, I stand by this comment

They've already defederated us, so they would probably defederate with you anyway. That instance is a cesspool though. I'm guessing that the mod in question was the moron in charge of 196?

they would've found some reason to defederate from us anyway so don't worry about it

I do take issue with this mod action though, because I commented this comment after finding the thread naturally through the front page of hexbear and linked to it AFTER making the comment

should have removed the comment for being too funny or something cool, now I'm very embarassed

Yeah honestly we just need to not link instances we're fedded in the dunk tank. Just screenshot, or maybe just use the fedilink (the rainbow star thing), so that it's at least extra steps for someone to go there, read the post, copy the link, search it back on hexbear, click on the post, and then comment/"brigade". I don't think that calling out liberalism of other instances is really a bad thing/even brigading, but we should keep the discussion here not in their comments.

Shit we could even start pinging people like we used to back on CTH, but we need to find some way to not blow up every lib post on another instance into a massive struggle session. Better if the discourse happens here on our turf not out there.

Ironically the formatting on this very post over there is totally ruined by the massive LIB emotes. This PR can't get released soon enough , thanks comrade devs

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