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well, at least there will be a positive effect from them for once
I've never heard of Hexbear. Care to explain?
hexbear.net is an explicitly and unapologetically instance of Lemmy. They're known for their active userbase, light trigger on banning Zionist, transphobic or even pro-western content (which angers many people who live in the west), and their love for beanis
You guys are so weird. Russia is awful for non-cis people and you're all falling over yourselves simping for them.
Nobody simps for Russia over in Hexbear, internal policy is terrible, but the fact is that it's been forced by the west to adopt many anti-imperialist policies, which communists are right to offer CRITICAL support
Got it. Everything is the west's fault. Very nuanced.
Not everything, but as things stand, most things yeah. It's what happens when you concentrate power for 100 years in one or two capitalist nations.
To you, "nuance" simply means "other nations must be even worse, look, I saw it on my western disinformation"
You're the one who keeps dick measuring countries. I call out specific bad actions, regardless of who commits them.
It's okay though, the west made you post that message.
I'm not "dick measuring" countries, you just systematically perform western-biased analysis of what are good and what are bad actions. For instance, you'd criticise the Chinese internet firewall or the Russian support to Assad, when the realistic alternatives are measurably worse. It seems that "lesser evil" to you guys is something that only applies to western genocidal maniacs and not to actually significantly different nations.
I wasn't thinking about the Chinese internet firewall at the moment, but you bring up a good point - that's a bad thing. What's the alternative, internet freedom where china can't police the media and public discourse?
Sucks how the west makes china censor it's citizens.
The alternative is "free speech" dominated by western tech oligarchs in platforms subjected to intelligence monitoring and constant western interference. It's exactly these things leading to murderers like Bolsonaro and Milei being elected.
Source check on the bolsonaro and milei murder convictions?
Francisco Franco was a murderer who died of old age, Trump is a murderer who will die of old age, Obama is a murdered who's roaming the streets free, if you judge who's a murderer according to whatever someone with a wig claims, that's your fault not mine.
Many instances defederated from them because a large chunk of the user base was abusive and brigading. To an extent even the worst right wing instances federated couldn't match.
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I don't like tankies much either but I've seen way worse from the fascists.
Not really sure if it's useful to ask if diarrea or regular shit is worse.
I don't want to step in either
Well, for one, in eg. East Germany, homosexuality was decriminalised before in the West.
In fascist Italy and Germany, you were sent to a concentration camp.
True. That's what the east reserved for people who critizised the state
There were no concentration camps in the Eastern Block, though, the word you're looking for is "prison", which exists in all societies (mostly in the US though).
As for criticising the state, you couldn't publicly criticise the party leader or the communist model in public without getting in trouble (no jail for just talking though), but as they say "in communism you couldn't criticise one person (the party leader), in capitalism you can't criticise your boss or your company".
I'd like to thank you for proving my point
I saw right wingers raging (rarely), but there would be a post about Bernie sanders and every time there's a hexbear user saying "this capitalist bootlicking swine, I never want to see his revolting war criminal face again." And replied to all comments saying "wtf is wrong with you" with similar comments. Go check the thread of my instance asking if we should defederate, I can find it if you want. So many people who said "the toxicity from hexbear is overwhelming," myself included.
Lemmy.world defederated from hexbear "pre-emptively" before they even had federation active. To this day, I have never seen this mythical hexbear brigading.
Yes. And people including myself have accounts on other servers. And experienced it personally 3-4 years ago. That you didn't experience it doesn't disprove it. There's a reason many of us chose servers like world as primary, that didn't federate.
Best you got. Weak.
It's more often the reverse. You'll see accounts in hexbear-adjacent servers posting "Why Stalin Was Worse Than Hitler" tier content, getting banned, and then coming over to .world to scream and cry about how they've been censored by the mean Tankies.
AFAIK it's the third such fundraiser from over there