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Has anyone else noticed how prevalent Hexbear posters have suddenly become? Maybe sometime last week I noticed nearly every political post had at least one long thread of Hexbear users that do nothing but repeat CCP talking points while waving anyway anything even remotely reliable as Western propaganda. That or getting all excited about trolled libs. The way they tell it, you'd think everything from DW, to Fox, to Propublica, to straight up AP News articles, are all written by the same people.

Not to mention, their info on the Fediverse observer is either straight up wrong or there's some serious botting going on. According to that, the instance is less than a month old, yet somehow they already have one of the largest, most active userbases, along with far and away the most comments of any instance.

Seems to me like Lemmygrad on steroids. Considering we defederated from them, seems like a no-brainer to block Hexbear as well.

So glad this thread could become such a perfect microcosm of why we need to defederate.

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[–] [email protected] 115 points 1 year ago (4 children)

when Xi Jinping offers to pay ur rent, its hard to say no

[–] [email protected] 50 points 1 year ago (1 children)

your rent is getting paid? lucky

[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You all rent? I just live in an overturned T-34 in an old abandoned junkyard.

[–] [email protected] 49 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I've never seen this emote in my LIFE

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago

It didn't actually peel off though, no scratch and sniff Xi sadness

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago

It's definitely new, only noticed it myself a day or 2 ago

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Speak for yourself, I'm no sellout

    ^This^ ^comment^ ^paid^ ^for^ ^by^ ^George^ ^Soros^

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago

I'm taking those bucks backxibe-check

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago

Xi paid for my haircut