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It's already turned into a shitshow, they've been brigading enmasse, downvoting and trolling just like they used to. Guess some things never change, eh?
at least the hexies do it with their hex accounts unlike the ml lot that smurf as other instances
Don't worry, they'll get banned on their Hexbear accounts and switch back to their .ml and lemm.ee sockpuppets to continue their shitty behaviour soon enough.
Could be by design, itβs a feature
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Please pray for those of us who mod political communities that Hexbear federates with π
Get them to ban your account. Then their users will not be able to see your posts or comments, to reply to. Ironically, the best gift they gave me.
EDIT: Goddamnit! They unbanned me just now.
That's actually an awesome idea. Not having to deal with another childish ML screaming "anarkiddie" when you point out that China isn't communist. Or the breathless "but-but-but someday they will be!!!!! 1!" Because as we all know, those with power love to give it up.
You misunderstand them. For many such campists. China is already perfectly fine.
Oh no I understand it. And campism is 100% the right word for it. 100% childish and lacking in critical thought. Being a pragmatist I tend to rub ideologues the wrong way regardless. But at least some of them you can understand and respect. Campists should not get any.
Fair warning: You need to actually be dangerous to their thought bubble to eat a ban. Just insulting them won't suffice, they'll leave that up to make criticism of their position look irate and irrational, what you need to do is to go to asklemmygrad or such and get both up- and downvotes. Make them question.
They were really chomping at the bit to ban me for months, because I constantly criticize "left unity" and deny that anarchists can collab with MLs with any systematic significance. (You should see how mald they got at some of my memes. Talking about 1000+ comment pile on!)
As a result, they kept posting "dunks" about our instance in their subs full of bad faith and hypocrisy, which I felt compelled to defend against, but I stuck to the subject at hand, so they had no excuse to ban me. Eventually they just banned me from one of their dunk comms for "liberalism" and deleted all my defenses of our instance that I had been writing for hours. That injustice triggered my ASD and I called that mod a "hypocritical PoS" in one DM, so they finally had an excuse π .
You might be able to force them to if you threaten to DMCA them for hosting your own copyrighted content. Posts and comments on Lemmy are technically literature which is copyright protected, and while you give your own instance license to host them via their Terms of service, you don't necessarily give the same permission to remote instances like Hexbear.
That fun little loophole with how federation works, you can explicitly request instances exclude you or it can really suck for them. Lemmy should probably have a built-in option for this to exclude yourself in this manner but don't count on the devs to add it unless people start DMCAing Hexbear and ML to "opt-out" of federation with those servers.
I think the idea that's your content will be rehosted by other servers and you give implicit permissions to do so should he part of your tos
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I do have to ask, if the admins here are banned from Hexbear, why are we (dbzer0) federated with them?
Not an attempt at a gotcha, I'm just curious why we are.
Because I'm not trying to be a BDFL. If people want to defed from hexbear, they can ask for a defed vote.
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I instance banned that person for 2 weeks (13 days expiration). Told blaze to kill himself because... he criticizied ML moderation. Oh the horror.
What a fucking ghoul. The hexbear admins do bumfuck-nothing about their users, so we have to deal with their trash. Yes yes i know there are some good users there, but in general it's just not worth it. They have horrible moderation.
I'd love to defederate but a lot of users would like to stay (ie they're bad but have some good content) so i made this issue to remedy the problem: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/5578 (not just for hexbear, ml or etc; also some other instances but that's besides the point)
(PS: @blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com i hope you don't mind me using your screenshot, i can delete if you want)
That one person disagreeing with you has some interesting takes. They don't seem to grasp the concept of users of an instance disagreeing with each other, only of instances disagreeing with other instances like rival hiveminds.
No shade to them, but i think we're seeing this from different viewpoints; i see this from a personal preference standpoint, and they see this from some moderation stance, which was not the point at all. This isn't meant to replace defederations.
I don't know this to be the case, but I've long assumed that the average age on Hexbear is about 15, and have yet to find any reason to assume otherwise.
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Now these are the friendly interactions I almost started to miss.
Makes me wish I bid on that domain auction...$2000 for some peace and quiet sounds like a nice deal.
iirc the auction didn't actually matter because the admin came back in time
But couldn't they just be defederated? Isn't that how it works?
Yea, and hex and grad of the Tankie Triad are generally pretty widely defederated from. db0 is one notable instance that doesn't and this screenshot is from .ml's side of the modlog who, should go without saying, is perfectly fine federating with the rest of the triad
Trust me, we all hate them too. Not even for political positions anymore (eh, i've heard worse).
Personally i'd love to defederate, but i know a vocal minority on our instance like them, so we'll have to cope for now.
Someone's eventually going to initiate a vote on /0 governance to defederate (i know what i'm voting lol) but i also made this github issue if you're interested https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/5578
Someone's eventually going to initiate a vote on /0 governance to defederate (i know what i'm voting lol)
Must. Resist. Urge. To. Make. db0 account.
The block function should definitely be fixed, but when an instances admins are toxic and/or pushing propaganda/political agenda really, wide defederation is the only answer.
My concern is not of the people already here who a) already know of the Tankie Triad and b) makes an informed decision to block/not block based on that, but what kind of damage instances like hex and .ml can do to the wider Lemmy-verse rep on the outside. I don't want this budding place to become tainted with the stigma of being "That Tankie Place" or "Voat 2.0".
I've already come across a few comments out in the wild that Lemmy has a bunch of tankies, and it's depressing
Well i won't stop you ;) You'll probably get harassed to hell for it though. They're very toxic, and if i called the shots i would defederate; but the instance is democratic, and i'm not in the mood to deal with pandora's box π I already have enough going on, i don't need my inbox blown up with insults along with it :)
Must. Resist. Urge. To. Make. db0 account.
Do it. The only reason I'm posting from my shit account right now (I still like this place, don't worry) is because db0 is blocked at work for "PiRaCy" πππ
The only reason Iβm posting from my shit account right now (I still like this place, donβt worry) is because db0 is blocked at work for βPiRaCyβ πππ
Nevermind, I guess IT decided to unblock it.
I'm surprised we got even noticed enough to be blocked in the first place.
i use ssh dynamic proxy back to my home "server" (a mid 2010's macbook running debian), and all IT sees is encrypted traffic to a bizarre domain.
Ah haha, the IT/IS department at the last company I worked for saw right through that and nailed me to the wall for "unauthorized VPN usage" ππ
(a mid 2010's macbook running debian)
Brave soul. My wife has a 2017 A1706 MBP.... We also have a 2009-ish MBP loaded with Linux Mint that the kids use for schoolwork.
it's a pretty low-stakes business. i'm sure they don't care even if they see the traffic. the IT is outsourced, so i'm sure it's just a CYA contract.
Do it. I know I'd certainly vote to defederate Hexbear. If you do and decide to make a vote to defederate hexbear include lots of evidence so no one votes against it out of ignorance, only vocal people or those freeze peach types (I don't think there's many of those but I've seen them here on Lemmy).
I've got lots of evidence on .ml posted here, but I've really only been focusing on .ml, but perhaps I could sway people on "If this is the evidence I've been able to gather of .ml, and hex and grad are widely considered to be even worse then it's only logical to vote to defed from the entire Tankie Triad"
ml might be a hard one to sell for people, if servers would defederate from ml that would be good but I think many servers right now are afraid of it backfiring like how Beehaw defederated lemmy.world and sh.itjust.works and killed 90% of their interaction and 100% of their network effect overnight.
Of course I do think things are different now and if big servers defederated ML, ML would be the one to lose out, not the bigger servers. Only reason people still use the Bigger ML communities is because they continue to federate, if they weren't people would use the other ones on places like lemmy.world, sh.itjust.works, lemm.ee, and programming.dev.
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It just sounds like the one user, really... But I'm not a mod, so I'm not seeing the whole picture.
It's just an example, this kind of behavior is pervasive throughout the Tankie Triad, (hex, grad and .ml) because the admins and mods will not do anything and even encourage it, provided you're in the "in" Tankie crowd ofc
Check out the rest of the documentation here at !meanwhileongrad@sh.itjust.works and you'll see it's a pattern
Yikes. Yeah I'll look for other communities.
This person will stop after their 2 week ban expires.
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