I don't know how to break it to you that like 99% of people think using pithy, dismissive responses is bonafide asshole behaviour, and that's why nobody wants to talk to you guys.
Your "instance culture" is just being a bunch of assholes. This is why everyone defederates you.
I don't particularly care for the perspectives of the fundamentally disgusting, the same way I wouldn't really care about the culinary opinions of a cannibal.
The funny thing about art and perspectives is that they're really not in short supply. You can afford to be pretty choosy with who you want to let hang out around you; that extends to say, immediately banning hexbear users on sight because they're assholes the same way you could viciously dismember ban anyone who posts fascist shit.
You just have a very high tolerance for jackassery. You've seen plenty of evidence of hexbear hostility, i.e. the "dunk tank" that would justify not wanting to interact with hexbear users and have actively chosen to disregard it.
This is because you're kind of a jackass. Disregarding people engaging in good faith with "just trust me bro" is exactly the kind of thing people really hate hexbear users for. Not because of illegal activity or moral failing, but because they're assholes. While you may think this isn't worth de-federation, unfortunately moderators aren't some kind of legal authority, and if federating with hexbear means instance admins or community moderators need to put in triple the work to prune all the arguments and """shitposting""" hexbear users love, nobody is legally or morally required to put up with it.
It's legitimately that simple. Hexbear users are jerks and nobody wants to hang out with them, and that's enough to ban them from any given community or instance.
In terms of the "tankie problem", it's mostly supporting Russian aggression in Ukraine pretty much solely to "own the libs" and "get back at the evil NATO". Most "tankies", a term that has become effectively meaningless from overuse, are more accurately political contrarians who care less about things getting better for more people and more about Owning The Libs.
There's honestly a good chunk of them on most fediverse instances just due to the general community vibe, with Hexbear having more than, say, lemmy.world, but less than lemmygrad. Hexbear stands out moreso to being the successor to Chapo Trap House, a community notorious for being so utterly vile to interact with that nobody wants anything to do with them.
No, but they're absolutely the lesser of two evils here. I'm generally not sure how people justify a war of territorial expansion to stroke the ego of a geriatric dictator in Ukraine, then turn around and get angry about a war of territorial expansion to stroke the ego of a geriatric dictator in, say, Afghanistan.
It's hypocrisy. You dronestrike a children's hospital in Kabul and everyone acknowledges the evil of it, but Russia dronestrikes a children's hospital in Ukraine and suddenly it's justified as "retaliating against western imperialism". Sure, and Iran had nukes Uncle Sam needed to find, too.
You are a political contrarian if you think invading a sovereign nation is justified by "the western narrative is rather sanitized". You don't care about people's lives or welfare, you care about Being Special and Being Better Than Other People.
To be blunt, you disgust me with your callous disregard for the lives of innocents solely to be cool and edgy on the internet.
A good deed done for the wrong reasons is still a good deed. The reason why NATO is the lesser of two evils in this sense is that between two brutal authoritarian regimes, NATO is significantly more hands-off and more open to being manipulated by civilian interest than the more brutally right-wing Russian regime. One of these exploitative imperialists will probably let you get gay married, the other one will kill you for it. The US military industrial complex will pick a target regardless. It may as well be a target that ends up counteracting Russian imperialism; I'd rather have those bullets in Russian corpses than, say, whatever country Saudi Arabia has decided needs bullying this week.
Anyways, the core of the issue is that it takes a LOT of hand-wringing and "b-but both sides" to justify active warfare to sit back and let an imperial power shit hellfire down civilians' throats. Anyone who actively supports pulling out of Ukraine is, bluntly, just kind of an idiot.
I don't particularly care if you agree with me or not. What I find interesting is that what motivates your political positions are effectively identical to, say, an American christofascist. Disdain for the mainstream media, performative cynicism, conspiratorial thinking. If it goes counter to The Mainstream, it must be good. The idea that people may be harmed by your position doesn't matter to you at all. People """are animals""", after all, and they matter to you only as props in your self-aggrandizing personal narrative.
I'm genuinely not sure how you're intending to sell your position of "Empathy is for losers, the only thing that matters is Being Right On The Internet" as anything other than repulsive, or how you're not demonstrating why people dislike hexbear users (i.e. spitting on the concept of basic human empathy due to political contrarianism).
I think it has become more than apparent that our federation with Hexbear has degraded the quality of browsing on this instance. I’m generally for open federation, but the amount of brigading and general toxicity is not conducive to the friendly communications that make Lemmy great.
It’s awesome and vindicating seeing you guys cry and bitch about having to experience someone with a different opinion then yours and who doesn’t agree with you.
This exact sentence, where you're a gloating asshole who actively gets off to frustrating people who might just be misinformed, is exactly why nobody likes hexbear users.
Social media seems to be laughing its ass off about this tragedy, is it because the folks at burning man are perceived as frivolous hippies or something? Everyone I’ve ever met who was a regular burning man attendee has been a solid human being with strong morals, personally and financially responsible, a career. Upstanding...
They're annoying, like over-caffeinated teenagers, and they like to use what I presume are something like Twitch emotes that don't work outside of hexbear, which looks really stupid.
I don't think they're evil or anything, but they're just so universally awful to deal with that I can fully support immediate no-questions-asked defederation. They're the fediverse equivalent of a decent enough guy who just fucking reeks because they refuse to ever shower or wear deodorant.
Something I don't understand how people can correctly identify NATO propaganda dismissing war crimes and western imperialism... and then immediately turn around and uncritically consume Russian & Chinese propaganda dismissing war crimes and imperialism. Do these people have any actual moral positions or are they just contrarians?
Russian intelligence is operating a systematic program to launder pro-Kremlin propaganda through private relationships between Russian operatives and unwitting US and western targets, according to newly declassified US intelligence....
The U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota has dismissed a lawsuit brought by four plaintiffs who were sexually abused by Roman Catholic priests when they were children. In Keenan v. Holy See State of Vatican City, decided Aug. 14, the court found that the Holy See has sovereign immunity....
I was gonna say "wow, we're reaching new levels of pathetic", but this is actually a pretty common low to sink to, when you think about it. Still funny, though, which I think really speaks to the immortality of watching someone debase themselves for grade-A Loser Clout.
Meet Ron DeSantis Ron DeSantis for President A native Floridian with blue-collar roots, Ron was raised in Dunedin by his mother, a nurse, and father, who installed cable boxes. He attended Dunedin High School and worked his way through Yale University, where he was the captain of the varsity baseball team. He also graduated with...
Now we need to know if he Shatters with any of his kit. I mean, I'll probably end up getting him anyways, but it's important for pre-farming and teambuilding reasons.
Hexbear users: Please avoid commenting on this thread! This sub is for midwest.social users / announcements. Y’all’s participation in yesterday’s thread, while understandable, made it really really hard for me to see what other users on my instance thought. Thanks!...
Hexbear users are a bunch of assholes. They're not like, ontologically evil or anything, but they're so consistently awful to have to deal with that basically every instance is better off defederating.
After watching the documentary “JFK to 9/11: Everything Is a Rich Man’s Trick”, I’ve just learned about Operation Mockingbird, and I don’t know what I can trust anymore. I already distrusted mainstream media because of how one-sided they became when covering the news about the Ukraine-Russia conflict, but after...
You already believe Russian propaganda. Almost exclusively, in fact. You aren't going to trust any sources anyone posts that don't confirm your red-fascist "campist" bias. This is, in fact, a stupid question, because it's a question you aren't going to like any answer for.
Literally 14 minutes ago you posted a news article sucking Putin's dick. Couple days ago you posted anti-mask propaganda clamouring to but Anthony Fauci in prison. You are actively rooting for an invading imperialistic force with genocidal intentions because "at least it isn't NATO". You are an idiot.
You may not consider yourself a fascist, but when it looks like a duck and quacks like a duck, it's a duck. You share effectively all active positions with an American christofascist. This is because you're a "campist"; basically a political contrarian who uncritically absorbs information entirely on the basis that "if it's not US propaganda it must be good", which means taking in a lot of fascist shit, such as essentially everything posted by the """independent sources""" (translator's note: cryptofascist sources) you seem to idolize.
This very post is extremely telling, because you clearly don't have any actual moral compass of your own. You're posting here looking for "news sources you can trust" because you just aren't psychologically capable of discerning right from wrong on your own. That is, at bare minimum, troubling.
My advice is to focus on building a rapport with your local community and centering yourself on core values, deciding what is and isn't acceptable to you, and then using a strong moral framework to sift through information like a normal person. if that doesn't work, unironically kill yourself before you end up helping Russians put trans people in a mass grave somewhere.
This has its negatives. If someone makes twenty-seven different hate speech communities spread out over twenty-seven instances, it becomes harder to exterminate them like the vermin they are. If they all congregate on one overly-permissive instance, you can defederate them and call it a day. Much easier.
Has to be done manually, though. Better tools will make this a more appealing option in the future, but for now I unironically think more centralization is the better option just to make the moderation job a little easier. Lord knows it's difficult enough.
It is illegal and immoral. It steals the rightful intellectual property of directors and developers who are only trying to make a living. If you want to be a thief so badly, then rob a federal bank.
For every ~200k movie sales, the entire cast & crew get around $20 dollars. To split between each and everyone one of them. Executives and shareholders get 99.99999% of profit.
You will do actors & writers better by pirating everything they have ever made and then sending them $5 on Paypal or something than actually buying their films.
I don't think it's a controversial opinion to hate and despise the Jehovah's Witness cult, bunch of pedophiles like every other Christian. The best thing they could do to that convention is drone strike it, warning people about their pedophilic habits is comparatively mild.
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"To show all the ideological diversity that Hexbear has I think everyone should have to do a polcomp test." -- To no one's surprise, there is no diversity. (hexbear.net)
I'm not even sure I want to know (lemmy.world)
Hot Take: 5e is too bloated with unnecessary rules and should be simplified (ttrpg.network)
I recommend this video to look more into OSR philosophy regarding the rules: www.youtube.com/live/bCxZ3TivVUM?si=aZ-y2U_AVjn9a…
A tiny bit of opposition and Tankies flee once more (sh.itjust.works)
Consideration to Defederate Hexbear
I think it has become more than apparent that our federation with Hexbear has degraded the quality of browsing on this instance. I’m generally for open federation, but the amount of brigading and general toxicity is not conducive to the friendly communications that make Lemmy great.
Why is everyone so giddy about the flooding thay happened at burning man?
Social media seems to be laughing its ass off about this tragedy, is it because the folks at burning man are perceived as frivolous hippies or something? Everyone I’ve ever met who was a regular burning man attendee has been a solid human being with strong morals, personally and financially responsible, a career. Upstanding...
In ‘chilling’ new interview, Trump says he’d ‘lock up’ his political enemies if re-elected (www.msnbc.com)
What's going on with hexbears
Seems people frequently talk about negative experiences of them then end up banned shortly after...
Hexbearian jerking themselves off about how valuable they are to the rest of the fediverse, suggests "performing a coup"
It's not even absolutist pacifist naivete. It's just bootlicking and pro-Russian imperialism. (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
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Elon Musk Booed At Valorant Tournament (kotaku.com)
[News] Newly declassified US intel claims Russia is laundering propaganda through unwitting Westerners | CNN Politics (www.cnn.com)
Russian intelligence is operating a systematic program to launder pro-Kremlin propaganda through private relationships between Russian operatives and unwitting US and western targets, according to newly declassified US intelligence....
Vatican sovereign immunity upheld (minnlawyer.com)
The U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota has dismissed a lawsuit brought by four plaintiffs who were sexually abused by Roman Catholic priests when they were children. In Keenan v. Holy See State of Vatican City, decided Aug. 14, the court found that the Holy See has sovereign immunity....
first major patch for Baldur’s Gate 3, addressing over 1000 bugs, balancing, flow issues and much, much more. (baldursgate3.game)
Jan. 6 Rally Organizer Created Her Own Mugshot Because She Felt Left Out (www.vice.com)
Meet Ron DeSantis (infosec.pub)
Meet Ron DeSantis Ron DeSantis for President A native Floridian with blue-collar roots, Ron was raised in Dunedin by his mother, a nurse, and father, who installed cable boxes. He attended Dunedin High School and worked his way through Yale University, where he was the captain of the varsity baseball team. He also graduated with...
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Canada game plans for U.S. "authoritarian shift"
mastodon.social/
You’re invited! (lebowski.social)
Wriothesley Gameplay (youtu.be)
Please do not defederate from Hexbear!
Hexbear users: Please avoid commenting on this thread! This sub is for midwest.social users / announcements. Y’all’s participation in yesterday’s thread, while understandable, made it really really hard for me to see what other users on my instance thought. Thanks!...
What news sources can I trust?
After watching the documentary “JFK to 9/11: Everything Is a Rich Man’s Trick”, I’ve just learned about Operation Mockingbird, and I don’t know what I can trust anymore. I already distrusted mainstream media because of how one-sided they became when covering the news about the Ukraine-Russia conflict, but after...
If everyone was spread out onto different instances, and communities were based all over the fediverse, the decisions of one instance would be less impactful. (media.kbin.cafe)
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Deferated from hexbear.net
Sorry (🍁) we did this without making a post, but after receiving several complaints we defederated from hexbear.net yesterday....
Piracy is bad.
It is illegal and immoral. It steals the rightful intellectual property of directors and developers who are only trying to make a living. If you want to be a thief so badly, then rob a federal bank.
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Is saying "Don't need to know hebrew to know the Holocaust was bad" antisemetic?
A tankie told me that, and Im still trying to figure how on earth it is....
Anti-communism, Education, and the Internet (SecondThought) (www.youtube.com)
It would appear lemmy.world has blocked this community (sh.itjust.works)
!piracy has also been blocked from lemmy.world....