I'd second this. I've gone through and blocked most of their communities manually but they definitely threw off the vibes. They're not a fun bunch to be around.

You can filter out instances with Ublock Origin for desktop and Sync for mobile. This will remove any posts and comments from users from that instance. It's a lot easier than trying to get your instance admin to defederate a major instance or setting up your own while still getting rid of hexbear for you

seems like its home to a lot of irony poisioned predominantly white leftists but i think comparing it to t_d is a stretch.

i wonder if theres any leftist instances that are worth spending time on, theres not very many of them and it seems like the ones that are out there either have started to die out or have been widely defederated from due to toxicity.

i wish there were larger spaces focused around real world political action, organization and solidarity because there would be so much value in having that on a platform like this.

Idk, but if you're a person of color, don't go to tankie instances because they're seriously racist over there