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Has anyone else noticed how prevalent Hexbear posters have suddenly become? Maybe sometime last week I noticed nearly every political post had at least one long thread of Hexbear users that do nothing but repeat CCP talking points while waving anyway anything even remotely reliable as Western propaganda. That or getting all excited about trolled libs. The way they tell it, you'd think everything from DW, to Fox, to Propublica, to straight up AP News articles, are all written by the same people.

Not to mention, their info on the Fediverse observer is either straight up wrong or there's some serious botting going on. According to that, the instance is less than a month old, yet somehow they already have one of the largest, most active userbases, along with far and away the most comments of any instance.

Seems to me like Lemmygrad on steroids. Considering we defederated from them, seems like a no-brainer to block Hexbear as well.

So glad this thread could become such a perfect microcosm of why we need to defederate.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Cool let's just insult each other, Hexbear is great ๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ’ฏ

[โ€“] [email protected] 60 points 1 year ago

Hexbear is great ๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ’ฏ

[โ€“] [email protected] 41 points 1 year ago

Genius strategy to never allow yourself to grow as a person. Any time anyone points out something negative you're doing, close your mind to it with a reactionary "I'm being insulted!!" and shut down in a huff

[โ€“] [email protected] 25 points 1 year ago

You said:

you're just trying to dunk on the libs (like MAGA, big surprise)

Glass houses and stones

[โ€“] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago

that's not an insult. it's quite literally a statement of fact.