They're here because they couldn't handle reddit anymore. We're here because reddit couldn't handle us anymore.
Also they couldn't handle reddit anymore so they came here and immediatly started trying to recreate reddit.
They hate Reddit because Spez and Great Man Theory, not because of the actual structure and profit motive.
Also they hate reddit because of capitalism but don't realize that and consider themselves capitalists.
"I hate how this website has gone to shit, injected adds into everything, and censored everything that isn't squarely within the Overton window.
Time to pack up and go to a website coded and maintened by literal communists and call everybody who thinks the democrats suck tankies."
Yep, mentioning Marx becomes a struggle sesh. They are ultras when it comes to leftism, and right wingers when it comes to the US.
mfw thousands of internet strangers across multiple platforms spend their days complaining about me and 200 other gay communists
It isn’t big though. They just get kicked out of everywhere else they go for being disruptive assholes, so for every community there’s a hexbear duplicate
Duplicate with half the posts and a third of comments.
All of which are super politically charged
I like their indignity about politics being brought up ever, using that as an insult and mic drop like it wins the argument instantly. Such lib coworker ass energy.
They are bots and cheaters
no they are just a large instance
nut uh it’s all just politics
???
Literally, unironically, hate us cus they ain't us.
Half the thread is "I have never interacted with Hexbear but they are literally the worst instance and I'm so surprised they exist"
The funniest part of that is all the people who think we're a bunch of uneducated kids who base our opinions on nothing, while fully admitting they have never interacted with us at all. Yes I see. Tell me more about making opinions on something you know nothing about
yeah the accusations that we were born after 9/11 just do not hit, all reddit-styled forums (especially the fediverse) are skewed toward olds
CTH is famously an elder millennial fanbase too. Average Chapo fan age is certainly higher than the average Reddit user age
I would assume most Hexbears are at least in their mid 20s, if not early 30s. I know we even have some older folks. Hexbear is many things, but a community of edgy teens is not one of them.
Not that I have an account on Hexbear, but I spend a lot of time here (and enjoy it). I'm mid-forties, college degree, well-traveled (mostly North America, Europe and Asia). I have only grown more frustrated with liberals the older I get.
Consider making an account here. I used to be on .ml, found myself spending most of my time here, and made an account. You can split time, or just stay here.
Personally, I enjoy my time here much more.
I've considered it. I don't really want to have multiple accounts, and for better or for worse, .ml is still more broadly federated.
No investigation, no right to speak.
That's what happens when you defed, you don't actually see what's behind Lemmy.world's Iron Dome and vibes become myths become "facts."
We are all just “trolls”
Like they think we are over here just pretending to be communists or what? Do they think we don’t hold the positions we talk about?
Legitimately, yes. They can never explain why we recommend Theory and meme about it, except the ones who think we are wreckers (somehow even amongst ourselves).
Damn I’m shocked how small hexbear is, if I’d had to guess I woulda thought you guys were like 30% of the fediverse. How does 98% of the shitposting and best reaction gifs come from 2% of the user base? Touch grass sometimes, damn lmao
Having an established userbase and actual community beyond the frame of "not reddit" will do that. Other instances are free to develop their own niches, Hexbear has just had a 4 year headstart on all of the Reddit refugees.
It's cause this community is only one of very few on the Internet so there's more concentrated time if we want this particular environment
Whereas the user base and culture of most other Lemmy instances can be found in many places
Yeah if you are a lemmy.world user you are probably still spending most your time on Reddit. Very normie tastes and Reddit has better cat gifs
This has gotta be by sub count not posts or comments.
Same thing would happen on reddit when they'd post graphs of most "active" subredidts and people would be confused about why 2000 people on a subreddit about an obscure political podcast had more discussion than the NBA subreddit.
People be big mad about the beanis instance
Their vision of the beanis instance is harshly disconnected from reality because they refuse to actually visit.
https://startrek.website/post/13395265/11418872 this comment is wild lmao
That's from @Emmie@lemm.ee, who was banned 2 days ago (CW for the removed comment) for fashposting
Julian Assange is a bootlicker and Kremlin stooge who sold us out to the American and Russian billionaires. The Mueller Report proved he was explicitly trying to get Treason Trump elected and working with Putin to push disinformation to that end.
Now who’s bringing up politics everywhere? Guess it’s ok when it’s MSNBC slop
A spectre is haunting lemmy — the spectre of communism. All the powers of old Reddit have entered into a holy alliance to exorcise this spectre
It's hard to beat an operation with state funding.
Tell me you got a without actually telling me you got a
, lib.
Making up shit out of whole cloth lol
To remember 9/11 you have to be at least in your late 20s or early 30s. Tells you something about these nerds that they think so badly of literally all young people.
I remember 9/11 very well, and anyone who lived in the last 25 years knows what it is like to live in the post-9/11 hysteria.
Moving to a different country actually reaffirmed my leftist positions. Turns out the more of society you see, the more left you are on average. It decimates all illusions. This is commonly known anyway, and represented in every electoral map for fucking ever
It’s ironic to accuse leftists of being unaware of other countries. When I was (more of) a lib I never learned that much about other countries. Now I’m reading a lot more books and watching a lot more non-English content from other points of view.
Another person comparing traa a nazi bar:
This reads like someone telling me that the nazi bar is the only place to go because the nazi bar has people there all the time and the other bars are mostly empty.
Might as well just admit they've never been and have nothing to add to the conversation.
It's always funny how everyone just throws out nonsense about hexbear because they don't know what to do with us.
There isn't a spot for "Anti-Capitalist leftist" in their shape sorting game, so they try to shove us in the "teenage trolls" hole, but we probably average closer to 27-30.
Then they try to fit us in the q-anon maga hole, but that clearly doesn't fit because we'll bite your head off if you come at our trans homies and all our conspiracies are admitted to by the FBI/CIA.
So they post things like "they love the N word that's why they got defederated" and people just believe it.
https://lemmy.world/comment/11744317
Hexbear (if you disagree with their politics) is basically like a white american from the deep south. They’re perfectly reasonable to talk to as long as it isn’t politics
How to tell on yourself as a lib in 2 sentences. The civility brains, when they say white American from the deep south they mean a racist. But if you say a racist is perfectly reasonable to talk to as long as it isn't political, that raises some flags. So they disguise the fact that they do associate with and find racists pleasant to be around as long as the topic of politics is avoided lest they be reminded that they're having a good time around a racist. It's just a white man from the American deep south, the implications are clear but not overtly stated so they can seem to have progressive stances but show a complete spinelessness , cowardice and willingness to go along with those who cause harm so long as it isn't openly shown to their face, and even then they'll politely change the topic. Also the equivocate us with racists for not being as tolerant of racists as they are. I'd argue the person who is willing to associate with racists and says it's totally fine and fun as long as the racism doesn't get brought up is more comparable to a full out blood and soil racist.
I've tried a bunch of fediverse Lemmy clones. My favorite was kbin.social from June 23. It got progressively worse as the socialist gays were defederated... Now it's hexbear and beehaw. It's funny how when you encourage people that believe in respect for one another to interact you get nice vibrant communities. It was also funny seeing the defederation of hexbear from the other side. How immediately after the quality of the community dropped significantly
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