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[โ€“] [email protected] 14 points 1 week ago (21 children)

Trust me, we all hate them too. Not even for political positions anymore (eh, i've heard worse).

Personally i'd love to defederate, but i know a vocal minority on our instance like them, so we'll have to cope for now.

Someone's eventually going to initiate a vote on /0 governance to defederate (i know what i'm voting lol) but i also made this github issue if you're interested https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/5578

[โ€“] lka1988 2 points 1 week ago (7 children)

Genuinely curious - besides that particular user causing issues, what's the deal with hexbear in general? Full of idiots like that?

[โ€“] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Full of idiots like that?

Yes because the admins want that kind of culture for the most part, as long as you're in the "in" Tankie crowd at least. Same problem with .ml, admins encouraging that kind of culture

[โ€“] Draconic_NEO 5 points 1 week ago

The admins literally are "idiots like that", one of their admins @[email protected] decided to harass me because during a spam wave I decided to alert some of the Lemmy instance admins of instances I'm on of the trolls who were spamming Nazi shit and they decided to yell at me because I didn't include hexbear and lemmy.ml admins in my list of pings, and putting words in my mouth trying to claim I'm an evil person.

They're not just encouraging that shitty behavior, they're actively participating in it.

CC: @[email protected]

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