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Hexbear Discussion Round 2

I figured since their admin has asked them to stop participating over here it may be worthwhile to get a new discussion going that is primarily blahaj. I’m almost certain they’ll still be upvoting so keep that in mind as that may skew things. Worthwhile to check in from instances that have already defederated them. The...

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Ada has very poorly handled the response to her “people of NATO” statement in a way that leaves a very bad taste in my mouth regarding the administration of Blåhaj Lemmy. I have noticed that a comment left by a Hexbear user saying “death to Nazis and transphobes” is gone now as well, which if this was an act of a Blåhaj Lemmy administrator, further reflects poorly on Blåhaj Lemmy’s administration.

I really do not think it’s fair to go after Ada about this. I think this is such a weird hill to die on.

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I wish there were a way to lock threads to the local instance.

Might be worth putting this feature in an automod bot in the long term.

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overly concerned with civility or respectability

I for one do not mind admins that are concerned with civility or respectability. Forums should be about talking to people and I will always prefer to talk to people with civility and respect.

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hexbear.net/post/352119

Top comment on this post is

Every instance that has talked shit and got dogpiled should be thanking us for breathing some life into their dead and boring ass websites.

hexbear.net/comment/3744380

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I edited my post to mention this. I think it’s notable that the current top comment over there is:

Every instance that has talked shit and got dogpiled should be thanking us for breathing some life into their dead and boring ass websites.

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Does anybody know if this is a feature of a decimal system?

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Not a great look here overall. Was definitely hoping they would take a little bit more accountability. The solution seems simple. Spend less money on egregiously expensive equipment and spend more money on making sure things are accurate before they go out the door.

Can we defederate from hexbear.net?

I’m not sure what’s going on over there, but half the time I see a post from there or go into a comment section and it’s just…bad. Like old reddit the_donald bad. Constant trolling, etc. You TS just really bad vibes. I’ve been blocking the communities as they come up, but I’m not sure what else I can do.

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I think the fact that they’re more active in this thread than the blahaj folks is fairly emblematic of the problem. They can’t seem to help themselves with the brigading and they do seem to be drowning out local opinion with tankie rhetoric and spam.

EDIT: Just pointing out that if this were a blahaj exclusive thread you would get a very different sense of where popular opinion actually stands.

EDIT 2: I was initially pretty excited about federating with hexbear but I think after seeing the effect it has on the overall tone of discussion I’m pretty disappointed.

Not having downvotes does not, by any means, mean you need to post your disagreement. Our instance also does not have downvotes. You ARE drowning out exactly the sort of discussion this community is for. I can guarantee what you would like to say has already been posted and upvoting those posts and moving on IS the appropriate way to handle this issue in a meta community for an instance you are not a part of.

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It’s a thread about us, so . . .

It’s actually a community about us, so…

My valiant neoliberal argument. Their insidious tankie rhetoric.

I am a leftist.

You can see the instance of the poster, can’t you? And it’s not like hexbear people are able to downvote posts, so our vote is (while still something) relatively weaker.

We can’t downvote either, but a quick sampling shows over 3x as many hexbear users commenting as blahaj, so…

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Or rather vibes based social media participation? They’re explicitly trying not to make it political

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Lol try that on the hexbear folks

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I’m seeing 43k likes and 48k views. That’s insane.

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This is a great point. I’m super curious but generally unfamiliar with how things are in other parts of the world.

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This is a really weird thing to post here to be honest and yet I think I’ve already seen this thread like five times. In so far as there is a Lemmy circle jerk this is definitely part of it.

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Some apps do have a thread view. Phanpy comes to mind and I want to say fedilab does too?

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Honestly the Amazon selection for barefoot shoes is pretty solid currently. I personally have a couple of pairs of the Whitin brand. If you can find a sale I’ve gotten solid shoes for $20 before.

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Hexbear is a firehose of leftist shitposting.
EDIT: Also fairly old by fediverse standards.

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This makes sense but is it fair to attribute this to the women in this situation? Or does this have more to do with men in power upholding patriarchal practices at the expense of other men?

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Lol at the implication that the term community is indicative of communism.

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Cuff everything and grow your hair out

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It is not so much that they are conflating two unrelated stoicisms as you seen to imply but rather that you seem to be specifically trying to distance yourself from historical stoicism. There’s good reason for this, stoic philosophy was originally just as tied up in metaphysics as any ancient philosophy. This sense of metaphysics, while easy to discount from a modern perspective, was used primarily to justify existing power structures. Key among them patriarchy and slavery. Ultimately, this has little to do with the particulars of the philosophy. Knowing that, it would seem an easy task to separate the two as you would like to and yet it is still remarkably difficult to find any modern stoic groups that do not recommend Marcus Aurelius, Seneca, Epictetus, etc.

What you call the more general stoicism (lower case) is better understood as the whole of stoic cultural influence as it relates to the modern world. Even the etymology of stoics comes from the school of philosophy. It is not reasonable to try to claim stoic philosophy is best understood as only it’s most modern incarnations even as popular stoicism relies on ancient men to be it’s primary mediums.

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I think the business model where peertube really works looks something like a creator co-op. I think Nebula works under a similar system.

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