Defederate Now
Defederate Now
These bigoted, ignorant scum will never listen to anything. They are politically illiterate infants with an allergic reaction to reading.
They have ruined a safe space cultivated and cared for, they have turned this place into a new reddit.
I had a dude in my private messages going on about how I was both mutilating myself and other children. Many more people on hexbear have had similar experiences, with these worthless ignorant scum popping in to deliver the political equivalent of a giant shit.
As your friends, comrades, and people you say you defend get slurred at, dehumanized, and harassed please ask yourself:
Is it worth it?
I have the answer, I know you know it as well:
No its not
I used to think otherwise
I was a fool
its not worth a few laughs
even if you dunk all you want, that doesn't take away the knife those people put in our backs.
These bigots, fascists, and NATO liberals are as worthless offline as they are here, why should we give them any attention. They are worth less than the dirt beneath our fingernails. Why should we poison ourselves with their influence? We don't make any room for them offline, why should we not online?
And really
How many essays have your written?
How many sources have you combed through?
How many times have you explained the most basic facts of reality?
How many attempts at good faith?
Only for them to dismiss it in their stupidity. They don't read it, they just crumble and divert back to the programming these little shits trust in more than God.
For every time there is a good faith user, there are a dozen scumbag fascists. And most of the time, the "good faith one" just reverts back to their old shit.
Do you really think losing any member of the hexbear or lemmygrad community, longtime members or not, is worth a few good dunks?
I don't believe a small chance of gaining a new user is worth alienating an entire section of the community. The vast majority of those idiots are lost causes. If they are interested, the can just make an account and ask in good faith.
Is posting a meme to "own the liberals" worth your comrades getting more trauma from bigots harassing them?
No its not.
you've had your laugh, but it should end
Ban them all, SJW, lemm.ee, lemmy, the programmer nazi edglords. Keep Lemmygrad.
Defederate from those communities. We shouldn't sacrifice our own for more clicks. For having to subject ourselves to the opinions of people thoroughly brainwashed? We aren't reddit. We came here to get away from that. I'm sick of this. We are sick of this.
End it now
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This honestly feels like recency bias. Undeniable that lots of the shit just works crew are awful. They will be reported and banned almost completely within days. The first couple of days of the other federation push was basically like this but it quieted down real quick once the banning started. It's been like 48 hours. Things changed fast and will continue to change fast. If they don't go back to largely how they were then yes definitely defed is the right answer.
Of course nobody here wants you or anyone to feel unsafe or harassed. I don't know what the solution to that is ever though short of defederation and completely locking down new signups too so its just who we got today no exceptions forever. I think that communities like that can have value but I don't think that's really ever been the spirit of Hexbear. Mods are definitely doing a good job here I think and it'll be cleaned up fast. In the meantime tools exist for you and others to block entire instances that should largely fix the issues you're having while you wait for the mods to clean things up.
Just my two cents of course
They will be reported and banned almost completely within days. The first couple of days of the other federation push was basically like this but it quieted down real quick once the banning started.
It's been a consistent and unending slog for mods since the moment federation started. Check out the modlog, it hasn't let up much at all.
I frequently view the modlog and no, it definitely has let up. It's bad right now because we added a new fed.
Honestly as far as the mods are concerned I'm happy to let them decide if it's too much for them to handle. It doesn't seem to be since we just added a new fed.