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.
We say things that you think are untrue because reddit has been aggressively sheltering you from the truth. Lemmy is not controlled by the US State department like Reddit is. That is a big part of the reason Hexbear exists. When you step out of the censorship zone you meet ideas you haven't met before.
We were exiled from the censorship zone. We made a home out here in the wilds where we were challenged every day. We helped each other. We taught each other. We sharpened each other's posting skills. When you stepped into lemmy during the spez revolt (or whatever that was I dont know why reddexit happened) you thought it was an empty land but we were waiting out here.
Recently our admins figured out how to bridge the gap from our custom fork back to lemmy proper and so we came to see if there were any new Ideas to test and any new minds to spread our ideas to.
We are like Fremen but we post.
As in Fremen from Dune? But they were fooled into a religion and belief by a powerful political organization, and then manipulated again by their messiah. I’m not arguing with you, just noticed the comparison with fremen. lol
they mean we do cool drugs and have sweet orgies and drain outsiders of their precious vital fluids for sustenance
And we ride really cool worms. Emphasis on really cool.
Riding the lib brainworms,
getting high off the poop dust (dunking on their dogshit posts) 