Some comrades over at Hexbear have organized a donation drive for Palestine and, over the past few weeks, have managed to raise over $1500 for verified Palestinian fundraisers. The fediverse is a good place full of good people.

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[–] Eldritch@piefed.world 0 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

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.

[–] merdaverse@lemmy.zip 0 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Lemmy.world defederated from hexbear "pre-emptively" before they even had federation active. To this day, I have never seen this mythical hexbear brigading.

[–] Eldritch@piefed.world 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

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.

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago

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.

[–] birdwing@lemmy.blahaj.zone 0 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

[source needed]

I don't like tankies much either but I've seen way worse from the fascists.

[–] SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Not really sure if it's useful to ask if diarrea or regular shit is worse.

I don't want to step in either

[–] birdwing@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

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.

[–] SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

True. That's what the east reserved for people who critizised the state

[–] Riverside@reddthat.com 0 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

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".

[–] SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 3 weeks ago

I'd like to thank you for proving my point

[–] starelfsc2@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

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.