other instances: why do you hate us?

Last week I was at the movies by myself to see Barbie and a big group of Hexbear users sat behind me and in the middle of the movie I opened up a can of beans to eat and one of the hexbear users yelled 'Hey everybody, this nerd is eating beans!' and the whole theater laughed at me. Thats why i will always hate you.

I hate you for starting federation shortly after I made a second account specifically for hexbear

Because the rest of us don't get your fancy pronoun picker.

You have a games community but zero mentions of either Excite Truck or Excitebots: Trick Racing

I wonder if it’s because you have an in-culture that they don’t understand. I haven’t bothered to look it up, but like what is chapotraphouse? I think it was a podcast, then a subreddit, but what does it mean?

I don’t hate you tho, just saying.

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It's because we're loud, incredibly active, argumentative, and most importantly we are generally speaking unified. Yes there are differences, but compare the pushback when a hexbear posts something pro-china vs when someone else posts something anti-china. We'll get maybe 2-3 responses, all of which will immediately get dogpiled anyway. They'll get 10 of us. We also all upvote the takes we all agree on, so much so that it looks like vote manipulation. No other group on the fediverse has that type of unity, even if they broadly agree with each other.

Also the giant emojis probably don't help lol.

I support most of what is said here, but users from here tend to be very aggressive and combative. Everything is politics and pretending otherwise is very lib, so I can both understand why you do it and why people find it annoying.

They hate us for our freedom

They are jealous of our raw posting power. They wish they could be as cool and constantly correct as us.

they hate us for our freedom :no-oil:

Tell me so that I can double down on those specific behaviors.

I hate you TANKIES because you MAKE ME READ!!!

Edit: oh shit I forgot to switch accounts

you have emojis i can't use >:(

You guys don't like my movies... 😭

I don't hate you, this defederation thing is something I don't like. It creates echo chambers. Reddit was an echo chamber, too. But it was one everyone creates for themselves, subscribe: privacy, linux and selfhost and your chamber of anti-GAFAM is ready to rock (for example).

Seeing Hexbear and other stuff in "All" helps to escape your own bubble and creates more divergent discussion.

Because they just want to meme about China Bad and Russian Bots all day long

I'm pretty sure everyone at lemm.ee is cool with y'all. I'm still not super sure why other instances want to defederate with you tbh lol

I find the memes funny but the image abuse is obnoxious. I'm not a big fan of defederation so I always end up defending you guys but seriously, wtf?

I don't hate y'all, but some of the posts here can be indigestable. Some posts simply assume everyone is on the same page with something - which is likely true, since you've been a community for a long time.

Maybe I'll come back and edit this with an example at some point.