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Say “aye” or yes" if you are in favour defederation.

Say “nay” or “no” if you are against defederation.

Only users who have a sh.itjust.works account can vote. Fresh accounts won't be counted.

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[–] Gullible 73 points 1 year ago (10 children)

Yes.

I’m sensitive to racial issues but the way they go about discussing them devalues them in the same way that I used to devalue them, and reliving my mistakes in every comment section is killing me. Also, everything turns into twitch chat after they arrive.

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[–] lutillian 53 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Aye. If I want to see their content I can read it on a hexbear amount. They just flood my feed with memes and only barely tangentially related comments that are trying to bait people into saying something that they think gives them the high ground. They're like the arch Linux users of identity politics.

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[–] Kite 52 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Aye.

I knew that the toxicity of reddit was affecting me, but I didn't realize just how much until the move to Lemmy back in June. Everything was just so nice, people just happily chatted in comments, most disagreements were talked through or an "agree to disagree" arrangement was reached. Seeing the rude, angry people and the trolls creep back in was so disappointing (though I do realize it's inevitable. I used to mod forums back in the day.) Having a good chunk of those negative types on one instances is a positive thing, though. With the tools at hand, we can nip it in the bud by just blocking the lot of them.

Something I think people forget in all these many posts about blocking instances is that blocking is not a permanent thing. The mods aren't hitting the big red button and nuking the instance from existence forever. It can be undone. Times change, people change, forums/subreddits/instances change as they age. If it looks like things may have improved in a blocked instance, the ban can be lifted.

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[–] 31337 40 points 1 year ago

Aye.

They're obviously here just to troll and brigade. The offer nothing of value, while making this instance more annoying.

[–] FlyingCricket 35 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Aye.

I was going to vote against it on principle, but I'm just really tired of their shit.

[–] platypode 32 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Aye. They're more or less another Exploding Heads: an echo chamber with a potent and very precise set of opinions which they smear all over any wall they can find.

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[–] maus 30 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Aye

As much as it's funny watching tankies whataboutism and fake outrage, it gets to be too much with their spam taking up most of the oxygen in the room.

Hexbear behaves like the average /b/ /r9k/ /pol/ user

[–] Shihali 27 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Aye

Check back when we can whitelist individual members who have proven their ability to post in good faith on other instances. Or in ten years to see if Hexbear's culture isn't toxic anymore.

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[–] falkerie71 25 points 1 year ago
[–] formatc 24 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

I'm just sitting here on Kbin wondering what the hell is happening, and eating a cookie.

Anyone else want a cookie? They're peanut butter chocolate chip!

Edit: oh ok I read about whats happening. Wow. What a mess. You guys seem to hate eachother with a passion so I feel like defederating is the only way to keep things from being a constant flame war. Though I will say I definitely lean towards the "hexbear is a little batshit" side of the argument lol.

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago (7 children)
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[–] GreasyTengu 22 points 1 year ago
[–] mnemonicmonkeys 22 points 1 year ago

Aye. The trolling and brigading needs to stop.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago

Hexbear users remind me of the lulzsec days. They used to think they were special but really they were just fucking annoying.

[–] Afelia 20 points 1 year ago
[–] Raradra 18 points 1 year ago
[–] goat 18 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (14 children)

not sure if my vote is counted since I made the thread

Nay (for now)

I like messing with hexbear users, they have no idea how anything works, they can't downvote, they're easy to ban, and they are so damn fun to troll. Buuut they are also very annoying, so I can totally understand the yes.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago (32 children)

I block them mostly. They are easy to troll though because they spend most of their time reposting the same memes in their echo chamber. It's like they're all people too young to experience /b/ in the 2000s.

Just mention something like "human rights" and see what happens.

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

The heyday of /b/ (with the caveat that /b/ was never good) was 16 years ago now.

If we assume Hexbear is made up of Gen Z who are in their early 20s, they would've been ~4 years old. Hell, even the oldest Gen Z would've been ~10. Not exactly the prime age for /b/.

My guess is that Hexbear is a mix of Gen Z who never experienced the peak days of 4chan (and thus never got the edginess out of their system), plus Gen Alpha who are young and stupid.

A lot of Hexbear has their heart in the right place. It's just their minds are fucking crazy. Like, you can't support fascism and genocide just because "America bad".

Yes, America bad.

Yes, America institutionally bad.

Yes, America not fixable for at least a decade (or longer).

But that doesn't mean it's time to blindly support China and Russia. Especially when both countries are blatantly anti-LGBTQ. China shut down an LGBTQ center amidst a larger crackdown on LGBT rights; Russia is... Russia.

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