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[-] vikingtons@lemmy.world 8 points 2 months ago

What's the story with this place?

[-] NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip 25 points 2 months ago

Lemmy, in general, is left leaning with the lead dev and "main" instance being unabashedly tankies.

Hexbear is the big instance of people who are so fucked they tend to get banned even from there. The ml crowd is generally still worth talking to. Whereas the hexbear crowd immediately jump to harassment the moment they decide you failed a purity test because you advocated for a social program rather than insisting the entire system needs to be burned down and a managed economy run by putin put in its place.

Needless to say: Anyone who spends enough time "on lemmy" is either on an instance that banned hexbear or muted them themselves.

[-] vikingtons@lemmy.world 8 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Appreciate the explanation. I've seen some remarks about the instance in passing, I've just never paid close enough attention to how communities have interacted with each other in the past.

Hexbear is the big instance of people who are so fucked they tend to get banned even from there.

No, no. They're a group of posters so awful they got banned from Reddit.

And let's be honest, you can be pretty much the worst person on earth and survive in your own little bubble on Reddit, but, for whatever reason, they couldn't.

[-] NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip 3 points 2 months ago

Yeah...

Spend some time in the "I hate reddit and am glad I am never going back but do you think reddit still thinks about me and hey, can I take a picture of your penis and send it to show reddit that my new boyfriend is massive?" communities. LOTS of the folk around here have those "I was banned for absolutely nothing" mentalities.

And it shows with how fast people are to "clown on" folk with just blatant insults.

Those folk aren't at all exclusive to hexbear.

[-] takeda@lemm.ee 17 points 2 months ago

When I accidentally interacted with one of their communities, it basically felt like a tankie 4chan. After that I just banned the entire instance.

[-] motor_spirit@lemmy.world 11 points 2 months ago

cunts, tale as old as time

this post was submitted on 11 Feb 2025
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