Are you seriously suggesting that if we just talk to them we can come to a compromise? Because they're absolutely not interested in compromise, that's why they're like MEGA. They are absolutely categorically not interested in anyone else's point of view, all they want to do is beat you repeatedly over the head with a big stick until you agree with them, or at least say you agree with them.

The world does not need ultra nationalists. We've had them before and they don't make things better.

Both groups can just fuck off.

I'd agree with you, if Hexbears weren't so obnoxious and cultish. First, they will hit you over the head with 20 different links on why the Tiananmen Square massacre was actually a fake, how the Uyghur genocide is fake as well, how China is the bestest democracy to ever have graced the earth and if you dare cite Wikipedia, you're just spewing CIA talking points. They are anti-billionaire only to the extend they can blame the US for. And if you won't play their little game of debunking all the drivel they throw at you, they just start to post their pig shit image. There's a reason they have it hot-linked on their instance: https://www.hexbear.net/PPB (NSFW)

Big "antifa are the real fascists" energy.

If that ground involves claiming that the Holodomor was the fault of the farmers, then I want nothing to do with it.

Eh, I think you're making it too complicated. The simplest explanation is normally true. They're just brainwashed low intelligence goons forming a groupthink echo chamber. Instead of blaming brown people and "libruls" they blame capitalists, liberals etc.

communism in theory is vastly superior to whatever we have now. But in practice it’s entirely inept for the human race.

I'm assuming that what you are referring to as 'communism' is actually Marxism-Leninism, they''re different things. Yes, state socialism (Marxism) has proven that it can end badly, but it's not the only way to implement socialism, others have proven or are proving they can work.

Maybe we should consider some sort of meritocracy

Real meritocracy doesn't exist, not without real communism first. Each generation inherits a set of inequalities from the previous one, ignoring them to only focus on achievements becomes a tool for the powerful to justify their power (I received a small loan of a million dollar and did fine, that means I deserve living life on easy mode; meanwhile the poor guy that dropped out of school to pay the bills didn't work hard enough to lift himself out of poverty).

To be fair, nearly everything is superior to the real world if we confine ourselves to theory

Connect has instance and community blocks.

As suggested, Connect. Excellent filter capabilities. My feed is pretty enjoyable now, at least on my phone. The only thing I'm missing is filtering out comments with specific keywords but that isn't a huge issue. I downvote and occasionally block a user if they just post an emoji or a pun.

I even have a "system":

• Instances with annoying users like those on hexbear, blahaj or lemmygrad: complete instance block.
• Communities which I have no interest in: block
• Spam bots reposting articles, reddit threads or links to some random blog post: instance/user block depending on context and how many posts per hour they spit out.
• Too many posts about the same subject that I don't care about: keyword block. Absolute bliss when Elon Musk and Donald Trump is gone.

I only interact with content that I find interesting. Not a huge fan of defederation if it's not pedo paradise or spam bot/troll farm. There are some good tutorials online on how to tie a noose if one of those two are your thing. Everyone has the right to an opinion and I have the right to ignore crazies.

Connect will block instances or communities. Several instances like .world have defederated hexbear at this point (as everyone should), so that's an option too.

As a leftist, we don't claim these people. Their views are left-coded but inherently antithetical to leftist values. Marxism-Leninism is an attempt (and quite a successful one) to appease revolutionary sentiment by embracing the aesthetics of the left but wrapping it in an authoritarian state. It's similar to how the nazis called themselves socialists to leech off the socialist sentiment in Germany at the time. These dopes like leftist aesthetics but completely miss the mark on any leftist policy.

What you are describing is known as the "horseshoe theory" and is widely rejected by political science.

The actual way to portray such things is a political spectrum, but with 2 or more axes, also known as a "political compass".

We should have a spectrum based on how far they are from agreeing with the human rights charter.

Why did you say fascist twice?