hexbear
Now that the old Hexbear fork has been officially abandoned, this community will be used as a space for meta-discussion on the site itself.
This a good purge. Even a great purge.
We have the best purges folks, everyone's saying it
people to avenge my fridged wife and/or rescue my estranged teenaged daughter from 
they're gonna post this thread on lemmy and complain lol
worth noting that 1) socialism is good and should be encouraged, and 2) the stuff being pushed is not tankie stuff afaik, just basic socialist messaging
- the stuff being pushed is not tankie stuff afaik, just basic socialist messaging
That doesn't matter.
It's like when 
gate, in some ways the ideological start of the modern western fascist movement in its current form, got that mad that Anita Sarkeesian did a video series with some basic entry-level feminist analysis of bideo bames.
I remember that shit in real time
Full confession: I was still lingering on 4ch!n at the time, primarily in the /tg/ board (that got sewage overflow from /pol/ regularly just like everywhere else on that site), and I saw the "we are not your private army" mantra instantly become "we are now your private army" once Eron Gjoni demanded one as a petty manchild revenge against Zoe Quinn. I was even there for when the name swapped from the misogynistic dog whistly "Five Guys" name to the more universally marketable "G!merGate" name, largely because of chud actor Adam Baldwin's suggestion. I was also there when they congratulated each other for coming up with the retcon of "it's actually about ethics in g!mes journalism" bullshit claim that was picked up and ran with for years as a smoke screen that was disgustingly effective at throwing naive liberals off the trail of misogynistic stalking.
it's wild how self-conscious and deliberate it all was
4chan's edgelords took pride on not being anyone's private army then went all in on being a private army. They stood for nothing, not even standing for nothing. Fascist cowards.
obsevable facts are anti-liberal 
good
Gotta give the people what they want.
The system works 
Purging works
Wait, how is hexbear banning libs making .ee's and .ml's feeds better?
So the optimal way to game the algorithm is: have a socialist post, but with liberal comments. Then have hexbears dunk on the liberal comments in the socialist post to push the post further. But invisible liberal commenters (to us) will also increase engagement with their comments, these invisible liberals can be made by banning people or defederation.
By banning liberal posters, but not necessarily all commenters, we end up with more socialist posts on the main feed. Commenting in general also just increases the likelihood it hits the top of the page and we like commenting.
So far we have banned most of the big liberal posters, so this is causing socialist content to go higher up in the feed because we are indirectly flooding hexbears into a limited number of socialist threads, causing those few socialist threads to stay up for days at a time as activity continues to increase, thus increasing the amount and staying power of socialist content on lemmy in general 
Would you think there's also a side effect to lemmygrads all feed?
Probably, but less due to less users. I also don't know how ban happy lemmygrad is
we've been banning anyone with the slightest liberalism since the site was made lol
Pretty ban happy, as good tankies are.
Is it possible for them to adjust the algorithm or is it baked into federation?
They've been talking about new algorithms but afaik the people that worked on our old algorithms went AWOL
Is it possible to learn this power ?
Not from a liberal. 
Ban all the libs and this site will be empty
And /c/chapotraphouse3 thought is once again proven as the only path forward for leftism.
