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submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by Menachem@midwest.social to c/main@midwest.social

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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[-] chair@hexbear.net 97 points 2 years ago

Yeah Idk what's up with them either man I saw them in a cupboard making babies and one of the babies looked at me

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[-] UlyssesT@hexbear.net 96 points 2 years ago

If the allowed spectrum of "leftist" discourse only ranges from free college over here to legal weed over there, there really isn't that much to talk about.

There's more to talk about, and yes argue over, if actual fucking leftists are talking beyond that narrow range of relatively inoffensive to porky-happy discussion topics.

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[-] Sleazy_Albanese@hexbear.net 93 points 2 years ago

i dont know where these people came from. Do they not know that lemmy was started by users of /r/fullcommunism after reddit banned it?

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[-] Rojo27@hexbear.net 92 points 2 years ago

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.

Seriously, if you look into each cubicle we're in we aren't all the same personfedposting

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[-] panopticon@hexbear.net 87 points 2 years ago
[-] ennemi@hexbear.net 85 points 2 years ago

please tell me all about these CCP talking points

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[-] WIIHAPPYFEW@hexbear.net 80 points 2 years ago
[-] Nagarjuna@hexbear.net 77 points 2 years ago

We were a lifeboat for /r/chapotraphouse since it's been banned. We were running a proprietary version of lemmy for most of that time and only joined the main fork a month ago.

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[-] Flyberius@hexbear.net 76 points 2 years ago
[-] ThomasMuentzner@hexbear.net 75 points 2 years ago

to much liberalism still ... but were getting there ,..

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