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My understanding is that it's not so much a "controversy" as a general dislike. We tend to dislike people who we feel are interpreting every little thing we say, no matter how innocuous, in the worst possible light. We tend to dislike people who hurl insults at us unprovoked, who respond to simple questions with weird pictures of Gargamel and other such content.
And then there's the existence of communities they have solely for the purpose of harassing other non-hexbear users and brigading communities from instances with the misfortune of federating with them, harassment campaigns which appear to be tolerated, if not encouraged, by certain other instances ending in .ml
While I have some serious political concerns with some of their shared views, I also think I'd have a lot in common with them -- a concern for LGBT+ rights, for instance -- and for the plight of the working class. Sadly, my experience has led me instead to instantly blocking any hexbear account on sight and disengaging with any of their content. I think other users in the fediverse have had similar such experiences. I've seen entire instances attempt to tolerate them, only to find that they're just inviting piranhas to the goldfish tank, and consequently defederating them.
I think you’re leaving out the elephant in the room: They’re supposed “leftists” who want nothing but to shit on the very people that the left needs to embrace.
They’ve taken the “burn it all down” approach, and would rather just have a genocide of anyone on the right, anyone in the center, and anyone who asks them any questions about their beliefs.
They have zero tolerance for inquisitiveness and regard all interaction thats not leftist snark to be in “bad faith”.
They are more than likely a honeypot disinformation campaign meant to siphon off the most fervent leftist believers and incapacitate them via self-ostricization.
I didn't leave that out. I don't agree with these statements you've made.
i literally never seen hexbearers do stuff like this.
You haven’t tried to interact with them then.
i go to their instance a lot, never got all those trolls people say are there lurking. they are a bit edgy sure, but are very friendly actually.
They're not friendly if you start asking about whether or not they actually believe that an armed revolution would succeed.
I do just that every once in a while. Asking questions about their beliefs and stuff. Lemmy is more chill in general and hexbear looks like it is too. The outliers are not that common IME.
Interesting, because that has not been my experience. On Hexbear or Lemmy.ml. Was banned from both. And I call myself a communist! But to them I'm a "lib" because I don't want to commit genocide.