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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

The other instances (other tham .ml and lemmygrad) are increasingly genocidal and hate "tankies". So about the same trajectory they've been on all along.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago

Vegantheoryclub.org is doing ok I think. We’re a literal offshoot of the hexbear vegan struggle sessions of 2021 tho it was mostly discord until we launched a lemmy instance.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

There are three types of takes out in the trenches. Standard "tankie" takes, standard "vote blue no matter who" shitlib takes, and bizarre, idiosyncratic takes that exactly one person on earth believes, but which they'll treat as the most obvious thing in the world.

Most recently, I was informed that Marxism is not worth studying on the basis that Marx culturally appropriated communism from indigenous Australians. PugJesus, one of the most prolific shitlib posters, has some great material on Marxism too.

The bizarre, ideosyncratic takes always seem to circle back around to, "And that's why you should vote blue no matter who, also China and Russia are committing genocide," but they spice things up and you get to play this fun little game of trying to decipher the brainworms while they yell at you.

[–] [email protected] 60 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Someone from reddit.world accused me of being a right-wing troll and it started a dog pile session where they got torn apart by a dozen other commenters for being a moron. It was actually really affirming that my neurotic screaming into the void has been acknowledged and accepted.

Never stop posting. 😏

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[–] [email protected] 79 points 2 days ago (15 children)
[–] [email protected] 60 points 2 days ago (2 children)

We'll have a long memory

Given my experience with liberals (I suppose just Americans in general), that's gonna be a big doubt from me

[–] [email protected] 32 points 2 days ago

What they mean is 20 years from now someone will write a twitter thread claiming that ~~ralph nader~~ jill stein was responsible for the $US_MILITARY_ATROCITY of 2026 then be dogpiled by people calling them an idiot because every democrat in the house & senate voted for it. I am quaking in my boots thinking of the reckoning that I will experience on that day.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 2 days ago

Liberals hold grudges they mistake for memories.

[–] [email protected] 68 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

If you vote for Harris or Trump

finkelstein

We will remember that you endorsed genocide.

You might as well start wearing a red armband with a swastika.

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 day ago (1 children)

They hate trump so much they're cozing up with the Cheneys. In What world do they think there's a long memory?

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Hatred for Trump has nothing to do with it. Liberals have always fetishised "reaching across the aisle" as they call it. And they have to rationalise that GOP is a grave threat to Americans (especially the women and minorities they love to hide behind) yet somehow it also needs to exist. So they like to imagine that there are sects within the party that are reasonable and they rehabilitate hellspawns like Bush and Cheney who have long since retired from direct bloodletting.

[–] [email protected] 50 points 2 days ago (2 children)

lol that looks almost exactly like something @[email protected] would shit out on badposting

[–] [email protected] 46 points 2 days ago

Oh yikes they still preaching the lesser of two genocides hmm? Losers.

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[–] [email protected] 70 points 2 days ago (15 children)

Lemmy.world is the biggest instance, and given it being an anti-Marxist instance designed to replicate Reddit, it has the most turbo-radlibs that couldn't stay on Reddit through the API crisis. Zionism, transphobia, racism, all manner of the worst takes possible. The smuggest people on the Fediverse, and the rudest.

Sh.itjust.works is 50/50 lib/fascist, NCD and MeanwhileOnGrad push the fascism.

Lemmy.ca is just landlords.

Lemm.ee is more of a tool than an instance.

Lemmy.ml is constantly a struggle session, .worlders outnumber communists and anarchists but the mods side with the communists, so it's constantly a struggle.

Grad is grad, doing fine it seems.

Dbzer0 still pretends to be okay with Marxists, but they can't support AES. Weird spot, doing okayish.

Solarpunk is small but has your typical anti-AES anarchist slant, some users are more reasonable than others, which is just a symptom of putting aesthetic over politics.

Think that does it!

[–] [email protected] 41 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Stalking your ml profile is a window into the madness of the lemmyverse. I don't know how you can keep arguing with libs like that.

[–] [email protected] 41 points 2 days ago

It's an outlet to get out frustration, honestly, though sometimes it leaves me more frustrated. I've stated before, Hexbear is by far the more enjoyable instance for me, but I get satisfaction out of calling genocidal libs out or proving some ultraleft "Marxist" wrong about their understanding of Marxism.

[–] [email protected] 35 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (5 children)

Solarpunk as a concept is so funny

What if my politics were just, like, a vibe

[–] [email protected] 36 points 2 days ago (10 children)

I've spoken with a few users, carefully pointing out how by being anti-Marxist but not also being anti-liberal, and further having no links to theory of any sort beyond aesthetic choices, opens them up to opportunism. They seemed to vaguely accept it, hope it can get through to them.

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[–] [email protected] 28 points 2 days ago (6 children)

Dbzer0 still pretends to be okay with Marxists, but they can't support AES. Weird spot, doing okayish.

Whenever I see some shitlib bullshit it's always either from them or the stupid star trek instance

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[–] [email protected] 72 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (5 children)

It's funny cause hexbear was one of the og instances along with like lemmy.ml and the contributors here do a lot of heavy lifting for the lemmy project as a whole lol like I think hexbear devs made pinning threads for lemmy possible

[–] [email protected] 73 points 2 days ago (5 children)

Pinning a post globally was something I upstreamed, IIRC. Also Emojis and Taglines

[–] [email protected] 46 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Hard to believe there was a time before having a thousand custom emotes. I was there in the first week and barely remember anything but the random struggle sessions

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 day ago (2 children)

.Midwest supports Hexbear, but I don’t see as many of us posting out there. But you can see us if your looking at /all, correct? I don’t think we have many popular comms.

.world is 80% shitlibs and 15% amateur leftists, or un-radicalized, but well meaning socdems. And 5% fucking idiots. This is just re: posts in comms and conversation (both .world and those federated) happening in the posts. Imo the conversation in the unimportant-but-popular comms on .ml look a lot like their (sometimes comparable in size) .world equivalent. But a lot more shitlib (and “you better fucking vote” [someone post me an emoji I can put there]) stuff posted .world memes and other such comms. Sometimes I see outright jabs at leftists (and I have downvotes so I use them), but mostly just stupid lib stuff.

Also, I love seeing some of my Hexbear comrades out in the .ml and other discussions. I like your words @[email protected] !

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 day ago

Glad to see you here floppy-owl

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[–] [email protected] 49 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (11 children)

They've been havin struggle sessions about hexbear nearly once a week. We're on their minds a lot lol, especially peeps from .dbzero and .world.

My guilty pleasure has been perusing those threads and then thru the biggest crybaby's modlogs to enjoy the sweet schadenfreude of the hexbear thread where they got clowned.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

...I don't think about them at all.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

You're better than i. I relish their pain and the fact they think far more about us than we them, but i cannot resist watching them twist and seethe in anger. It is low, i know, but i'm still so angry at shitlibs for their smug and stupid worldview being the only voice i could hear and speak with for so long... It twisted me some, and I'll never stop hatin' baby.

I watch them cry out in pain and surprise after spouting the nonsense that gets them lib-upvotes and am healed. They stand in for every talking head i scream at on the tv. Their sweet pained voices are answers from all those i can't hold accountable.

Yes, yes I am bitter. I'm working on it.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

Acknowledging is the first step to change! They deserve ire though, but that is the crux of mercy - not giving someone what they deserve.

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[–] [email protected] 48 points 2 days ago

Hmm idk let's see.

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[–] [email protected] 44 points 2 days ago (1 children)

i wish the network as a whole had more users i got excited the first time i scrolled through the federated instances like damn this shit is so cool then realised most of them have like 10 users

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[–] [email protected] 44 points 2 days ago (5 children)

Lemmyworld is the biggest right wing instace and that kinda ruins the other instances with their libs and fash users, they also working in some java alternative to lemmy but they have zero progress on that

[–] [email protected] 45 points 2 days ago (4 children)

java alternative to lemmy

why. Just why.

[–] [email protected] 47 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Because lemmy ml is controled by evil tankies who force freedom loving people to learn rust in order to develop the site

[–] [email protected] 41 points 2 days ago (4 children)

Why did they leave Reddit if they love capitalism so much?

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

their big idea is to make it so that instances they dont like have way less influence without technically shadowbanning them, the way one of the guys working on it explained it to me is that basically theyre making it so lemmy.ml users' upvotes are ignored by the algorithm and also their comments are put to the bottom on posts or something like that

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[–] [email protected] 39 points 2 days ago (4 children)

I only remember other instances when I load up Hexbear and forget to press "local". I read a few awful and unfunny posts and then realize that I made a huge mistake

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