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I saw a post that talked about racism towards people and when I talked about it the response I got was very heated and a person even called lemmy.world a community of 'hitlerites'

I have been around for a week or so and this is my first time seeing such explicit vulgar reaction towards another community, is this a one-off or should I block hexbear?

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[-] archchan@lemmy.ml 18 points 1 month ago

You either block them and die a liberal or you engage and observe and live long enough to start spreading their agitprop and using your new pronoun "comrade" as you lead the way to glorious revolution.

(Seriously though, they're just people on a leftist political instance. You'll get the good, bad, and weird, same as any other place).

[-] Snowpix@lemmy.ca 17 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

It's an instance that became known for brigading other instances to "dunk" on anyone who has remotely different ideas than they do, as well as spamming oversized emojis and pictures of pigs shitting on their own testicles. They have been defederated by most instances for good reason, as they always showed up enmasse to completely derail discussion and their own stated purpose of federating with other instances was to "dunk on liberals and dismantle Western propaganda". Their users would harass people in DMs for weeks on end if that person said something they didn't like. I was there to see this happen in several instances before they all defederated from Hexbear and it almost made me quit Lemmy entirely.

Below are some examples of various instances considering federating with Hexbear, only for Hexbesr's users to cause enough problems to get defederated. The threads themselves are best viewed from an instance that federates with Hexbear in order to see the awful behaviour for yourself, and the lemmy.ca thread has several more examples of this.

https://lemmy.ca/post/3326347 https://lemm.ee/post/4543536 https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/2017079 https://lemmy.world/post/249833

Do note that a lot of Hexbear users have alternate accounts on lemmy.ml and midwest.social (because nobody wants to federate with Hexbear), and a lot of these people will be in this very thread trying to defend Hexbear. Don't be fooled by them. Hexbear is a toxic cesspit.

[-] Boomkop3@reddthat.com 17 points 1 month ago

It's a bear with six legs

[-] TheFrirish@jlai.lu 16 points 1 month ago

https://sh.itjust.works/c/meanwhileongrad

One word, Tankies.

The community I shared rounds up posts that really portray their ~~Phalusophy~~ Philosophy really well. Now you would need to scroll down a bit to see some posts from hexbear specifically.

but I cannot recommend you enough to stay well away from hexbear, lemmygrad and if possible .ml

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[-] amon@lemmy.world 15 points 1 month ago

Do not interact with them destroy it with fire

[-] TypicalHog@lemm.ee 14 points 1 month ago

It's something every sane person should block as soon as they join Lemmy.

[-] tht@social.pwned.page 13 points 1 month ago

Its a leftist space that sometimes has trolls

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