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[–] [email protected] 125 points 1 year ago (5 children)

I appreciate the distinct lack of hexgoons on this thread.

[–] [email protected] 74 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I had to reread that twice to realize you weren't upset at hexagons, and was wondering where you had found graphics of the Ukrainian war superimposed on turn based battle hex maps

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Out of the loop, what happened?

[–] [email protected] 101 points 1 year ago (3 children)

lemmy.world defederated from a instance full of pro-russia shitheel trolls who would ruin any discussions regarding Ukraine. It's very nice not having to scroll through their propaganda.

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

Ohh I totally forgot about the defederation. Now it all makes sense.
Thanks

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] Klear 5 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Yes! Good on them

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Meh. I never saw anything like that. Usually russian-sympathizers are downvoted into oblivion and there's not that many of them.

I'm curious exactly what these people were saying, but now I'll never get to see because someone else decided to censor it for me.

Not really defederating, but I hope we can update lemmy so censorship is optional. You can choose to have posts hidden by mods hidden from you, or not. That way everyone wins, except for the children who think "I don't want to see this, so neither should anyone else!" And honestly, who cares about those kids?

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

I got kicked from communities in lemmy.ml a year ago when I tried Lemmy for the first time, for not worshipping everything China did.

[–] SuddenDownpour 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Glad that you actually came to saner instances once they came live, and didn't just feel aversion to the Fediverse as a whole.

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[–] [email protected] 41 points 1 year ago (3 children)

hexbear is an instance full of communist trolls

[–] [email protected] 91 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Being pro Russia because you're pro communist is so fucking weird to me. The Russian federation is an imperialist capitalist oligarchical fascist state.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Being pro Russia because 'own the left' and 'our guy has autocratic dreams' is even weirder

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago

Let's just agree that no matter your political leanings, being pro-Russia is fucking weird.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I swear to god it seemed like there was a massive shift in pro Russian sentiment when we all found out Russia had interfered in the 2016 election because

  1. Obama was doing sanctions about it and a certain group of people is always anti Obama, regardless of what that means, politically
  2. Russia had interfered on behalf of the guy they wanted, therefore Russian interference good
[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Logic has no place in that weird mob mentality. They're basically pro fascism, just you know the fascists that aren't Western. Makes it good fascism somehow.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Because they're not communists, they're just fascists that don't like being called fascists.

[–] SuddenDownpour 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The lengths to which they cry just because people use the word "tankie" is ludicrous. They also have this custom to equate "tankie" and "communist" the same way not too politically literate right wingers do.

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[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (4 children)

No. They are not.

Half of them are the obnoxious trust fund goons who lived on your floor in the dorms and had posters of Che on their walls. They generally came from wealth and this anti-capitalist rhetoric is just them rebelling against their parents. Their dad is probably a non-practicing jew who drives a VW Phaeton . They don't know their birth mothers too well but their step moms are probably women who graduated from high school two classes ahead of themselves. The obnoxious goons who base their entire personality on these kinds of interactions, they pride themselves on being "disliked for speaking truth to power".

The other half are shitheel trolls who are too wrapped up in their own attempts at edgy bullshit to understand the difference between "it's just a joke, bro" and "just drink the fucking kool-aid, bro".

Neither of those groups have any sense of self awareness.

So nah, they aren't communists.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Don't forget the paid Russian and Chinese state actors

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Half of them are the obnoxious trust fund goons who lived on your floor in the dorms and had posters of Che on their walls.

That's... so specific. It sounds like you're just saying things, lol.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Thank god, they flamed the crap out of me a couple of days ago, I thought this was what Lemmy was turning into and considered actually leaving.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

I just block anyone who trolls. It takes a while, but the more you block, the less they become a problem.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

With a higher lemmy adoption their presence should go proportionally down.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Does it block comments from the instance as well?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Kinda. They still appear with a message telling you that they are blocked. You can press a button to show the comment anyway. It is like a soft block where you can decide whether you want to read a comment or not.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Users from hexbear I presume. It's an instance with predominantly Russia-China supporting users.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I can block the whole instance and their posts, but not their users yet :/

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago (2 children)

There was a post earlier that they jumped on.

I was blocking assholes for a good hour. It ain't much, but it's honest work.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Not really. Blocking them doesn't remove them from the greater conversation, it just cedes the conversation to them.

Relentless mockery is what we need, not blocking.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (3 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

That's old wisdom right there. God - it's been so long since I thought about the rules...

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