-Complains about "echo chambers"
-Blocks comm because of diverging views
-Complains about "echo chambers"
-Blocks comm because of diverging views
I don't consider Hexbear to be an "echo chamber." A true echo chamber, isolating oneself from views that go against someone's current viewpoints, is only possible if your viewpoint aligns with the dominant views of the society you live in. Communism in the english-speaking internet and world is fringe. Nobody on Hexbear can truly avoid engaging with liberalism as a daily requirement for their existence, everyone has to exist in the outside world and touch grass at some point, be it for work, errands, engaging with friends, family, etc.
What is possible to create an echo chamber around, is blocking off leftist viewpoints. Blocking Hexbear just reduces the chances of yourself running into views that challenge your existing viewpoints. The reason why Hexbear bans liberalism and anti-communist viewpoints is because you can find them anywhere on the English-speaking internet, it gets pushed heavily by mainstream media and permeates discussions even about social reforms like healthcare. Hexbear making a space safe to engage with other communists who just want to hang out doesn't actually close off viewpoints.
Looking into your comments you linked, you threw around words like "authoritarianism" and "technofeudalism," without really describing or understanding each. It comes across as you trying to figure out a way to describe a Socialist system that restricts the rights of capital owners in a negative way, without trying to understand why the overwhelming majority of Chinese citizens support their system and believe it to be generally on the right track. I recommend glancing through this Socialism with Chinese Characteristics Study Guide to see how and why the Chinese system works, and why one would support it.
All in all, I think blocking Hexbear if you don't like echo chambers is actually counter-productive, as you cut yourself off of a large portion of the Leftist userbase on Lemmy, thus restricting what you see to a more narrow subset of generally "progressive liberalism."
No guys, Hexbear TOTALLY doesn't brigade threads, whaaaaat?
I'm shocked that Redditorsstill haven't learnt how Federation works.
Well not that shocked
Come back baby we didn't mean it
Im sorry for what i said when I was dunking
If you had any self-awareness at all you'd have died of embarassment by now
Someone asked you how China doesn't have freedom of speech, which is what you claimed and are responsible for proving. You responded asking "have you been living under a rock?" This is appealing to "common knowledge" as if it is just widely known and no evidence is required. In a different comment you said all your comments were your own thoughts and not based on US propaganda. Unless you have lived in China and had your freedom of speech violated, you are obviously just repeating racist anti-China propaganda that has no evidence. If there was evidence you would provide it but since you can't provide what doesn't exist all you can rely on is the false notion that
This is just one direct example debunking your rhetoric and showing it is illogical, but there are more examples in the thread. Instead of trying to form a perspective based on facts or data you are just making racist claims about over a billion people and then refusing to consider that you actually don't know what you're talking about even though it is very obvious to anyone who has spent even a little time looking into this topic
in the west, it's very hard to get honest/accurate analysis of the chinese system. i really recommend you stop parroting bullshit that you've heard and read some marxist/anarchist books on the chinese system post-2004.
(the reason 2004 is chosen is because there was a massive paradigm shift in the country at that time. any book that's worth reading will cover it)
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