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Fun fact : it's my first ever post on any lemmy instance/community blob-no-thoughts ...which is messed up..

Okay tbh I don't know if I should have posted this some place else or if here is just fine oh-shit

So I'm brand new here, I've joined as lemm.ee was going to shut down. I only chose Hexbear because of how big and active it is, and of course for all its shade of leftism (being far left myself) but tbh that part was just a plus for me, what I wanted more was an opened enough instance, an inclusive one with enough peace of mind (not having to deal with unhinged/oppressing posts/comments daily).

But I started noticing that actually Hexbear had been defederated from some big instances like lemmy.world, upon trying to understand why I stumbled upon lemmy.world ~~BS~~ post explaining they did it for preemptive reasons (wtf 💀), obviously I just dismissed lemmy.world entirely and continued enjoying my time here. But then I noticed other instances like Blahaj blocked Hexbear as well and a bunch of others, I never found out why.

Then, while trying to understand what's with all the defederating I stumbled upon a lot of negative noise against Hexbear, claiming you lot are doing some horrid stuff like war crimes denial, trolling, hate speech, spreading pro-Russian propaganda (like anti Ukrainian stuff don't misinterpret me here, I'm fine with anti-western views or western propaganda skepticism), so much so I don't really know if what I read was some kind of fascists trying to slander this place, or people confused about Hexbear political views, or if it's linked to some Hexbear history I'm not aware of... It's just weird because so far I haven't encountered anything I could hold against this instance, for all I've seen you're all sweet and making nice content, haven't seen anything unhinged, but what makes me uneasy is this defederating thing, I can't help but wonder why.

I'm really confused. Can someone explain to me what this is all about ? Is it just some right wing noise, some unknown drama or what ?

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[-] [email protected] 16 points 3 hours ago

it's common for haters to exist envious of those whose powers are beyond their grasp

[-] [email protected] 3 points 36 minutes ago

That's why .world is just a waiter at the table of our success.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 14 minutes ago
[-] [email protected] 18 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

free palestine, end the zionist entity and its apartheid and genocides

[-] [email protected] 11 points 3 hours ago

You got a ton of answers and they are all right lol. So I'll just say welcome aboard, comrade!

[-] [email protected] 35 points 6 hours ago

You got a bunch of answers, so I'mma just say hi.

Always happy to see new users, and I love my leftist comrades howdy-skull. There is technically a /c/howdy comm if you wanted a more chatty intro.

[-] [email protected] 41 points 6 hours ago

Wanting people to have housing, healthcare, and food is a pathway to many philosophies some consider to be... unnatural. weird-bolshevik

[-] [email protected] 35 points 6 hours ago

They hate us because we have the most intelligent, powerful, and beautiful posters. Like you! stalin-heart

Welcome!!

[-] [email protected] 5 points 2 hours ago

They hate us cuz they ain’t us. catgirl-heart

[-] [email protected] 51 points 7 hours ago

we have an ideology which is incompatible with and hostile to liberalism, and their socialization on the internet has left them unable to deal with that fact in a healthy way. they usually love dunking on ideological opponents, often by pretending to have conversations with news headlines in an aloof and dismissive tone. (you'll notice Reddit has a surprisingly frequent number of front page stories where the headline simply a quote or declaration from an adversary like Putin, usually abridged or summarized in such a way to suggest weakness, hypocrisy, or frustration). unfortunately, they're out of their depth when it comes beyond flat earthers, creationists, and anti-vax. On reddit, they manage to fill the gap with moderation power and downvotes. here, they just seethe. it's hard to believe, but these people have such poor coping skills, I literally see them routinely invent quotes that don't exist in the source or imagine historical events on the spot which they will then assert happened without investigation.

[-] [email protected] 34 points 6 hours ago
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