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Ye Power Trippin' Bastards
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Oh, I missed a trick so here's another separate reply - I hope it is more informative and therefore interesting than annoying to do it this way, split up (but you may have already started reading and responding the other so... you might not read this otherwise).
One of the tricks that HBs - and also Magats - use is to say something, knowing full well that it is not true, but relying on the fact that others will simply go along with it. The lazy bc they won't bother to fact-check, and the authoritarians bc they don't want to cause controversy by arguing against their leaders. It's actually a useful tactic, I have to say, separately from how I may feel about it being attempted to be used against myself.
So I noticed how one of the posts that you linked - https://hexbear.net/post/280770 - did that (hehe, well actually all of them did, repeatedly, but I wanted to call up one item in particular; also they presented it in the largest font size possible, BUT I WON'T YELL IT AT YOU HERE! ... ah, anymore than that much:-):
So by again sorting the Communities list by Old, and this time it wasn't the oldest but still it was close to it, I found Lemmy.world's announcement community, and thereby this post: https://lemmy.world/post/2498330. It lists 8 links - 4 comments made by HBs on Lemmy.world and 4 posts made on HB itself. And then for good measure 4 more links to Lemmygrad.ml that Lemmy.world also decided to defederate with at around the same time period.
Now, I bet you can anticipate what those linked comments said, can't you? Here's one for clarity:
Yeah, well, anyway, at the time, Lemmy.world did provide the receipts requested, whereas HB demanded proof, then ignored said proof, then demanded more proof - and you can see where this is going. Despite how someone tried to deliberately cover up their own involvement - though importantly, only after they got called out for it by the entire Lemmy.world admin team.
My point is that I have never once seen someone from HB use a good-faith argument (or if I have, it has been so long that I cannot recall it). 100% of what I see from them is either the most inane BS, or at best neutral. I would most definitely go to the trouble of learning how to write a bot or Firefox add-in or filter rule or something in order to block such content, but that would only selfishly help myself. Unfortunately, every new person who joins Lemmy must discover this all over again on their own - it is not printed in the sidebar "hey, just so you know, HB spews BS".
And lemmy.ml is arguably all the worse for being more tolerable therefore more insidious to have to parse.
Anyway, I hope this was interesting. Sometimes, people on the internet lie - and the worst kind are those that tell you the truth, after having lied to themselves (i.e. can no longer distinguish between truth vs. fiction).