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I'm trans and new to Lemmy. Can I have some lore on what's going on with Hexbear? (lemmy.blahaj.zone)

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I'm posting because originally when I was looking to create a Lemmy account I came across Hexbear. I read the code of conduct and TOS and to me it seemed like a great fit for me. However, after creating an account there, it seems pretty defederated.

Anyway I was curious on the happenings over there, because they have some cute custom emojis over there... but if there's a reason they're so defederated, I might just pretend i never made an account there

EDIT: omg I just found out this instance has cute blob emojis too :3 ablobcatrave

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 5 days ago

Ok, this isn't really blahaj related and I think it has run its course.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 days ago

It's a tankie space where people simp for authoritarian governments.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (2 children)

Hexbear is a instance run by communist that some people hate because we can be a bit loud and snarky about our politics. Super trans friendly though 👍

Edit: they are indeed heavily defederated which is why I choose to use a lemmy.ml account most of the time. I get to interact with them and most everyone else.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (2 children)

I can't see cm0002's post here from lemmy.ml, but I want to point out that nutomic was banned from hexbear because of those statements.

Edit: cm0002 has responded to me with bullshit, I don't care.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

There's plenty more evidence of y'all's behavior across the categories

[email protected] (but you can't see that one from .ml because .ml admins don't want you see it (talk about censorship))

And [email protected]

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

I do not know who either of those people are or what statements you refer to. I stay out of most of their drama

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago (1 children)

https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/21641836/12770035

tldr: Nutomic (one of the main developers of lemmy, and therefore an admin on lemmy.ml) was transphobic.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Damn what a loser, does dessalines still associate with them?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I think so. Nutomic is still a dev

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago

Thats really unfortunate, I thought they'd be better than that

[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

^ Yea sure bud

Tankies = Authoritarian "Communists"

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Nutomic has an instance ban on Hexbear. Otherwise it’s generally a bit of a sore point between them and ML/the devs that nutomic’s around at all.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (2 children)

I know some of the lore but people have already answered that, so give you my experience, I joined it see what it's like, I reported something that broke there ToS, I was then thrown on a community called "dunk tank" or something like that.

I was new to lemmy and it said in what I thought messages was that I got a message and then I responded to it

Apparently it's against that community rules to respond to it

I was permanently banned

So, yeah hexbear is capitalist bootlickers who mask them selfs as communists.

Although tbh. Lemmy.world seems very capitalist loving but at least I don't get instant banned because I'm new. Never had any problems with Lemmy.ml in my experience, but also I have some problems with shit just works (or whatever its called)

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 days ago

thezeesystem

There is an account with that name on hexbear, it has a completely blank modlog, or are you talking about some other account?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 days ago (2 children)

They are absolutely not capitalist bootlickers thats a wild ass take. I'm sorry they were mean to you, they got rid of the dunk_tank recently, though there was some drama about it and some communities popped up that essentially mimic it in a slightly less rude way. I've never found a community more accepting and understanding when you come to them in good faith and don't say anything stupid about communism bc they will dog on you for that.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 days ago

Not always true about the good faith. If you go against their core beliefs like "left unity" even outside their spaces, you can get in their shit list and get piled on. Happened to me in my own instance community.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 5 days ago (1 children)

don't say anything stupid about communism

Oh yea like rightful and fair criticism of the CCP's human rights violations or Putler's unprovoked war

Just "stupid" things lol

[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 days ago

And North Korea and Libya as well.

They just love to simp for dictators all over the world as long as they say they're, "for the people."

[–] [email protected] 11 points 5 days ago

Hexbear was one of the earliest servers that is now part of the fediverse. It was started after chapo trap house was banned from Reddit.

Users there realized the danger of the rich being able to shut down online leftist spaces well before the first waves of reddit exodus.

They do not put up with the slightest whiff of transphobic bullshit and moderate & ban that crap swiftly.

You may hear some weird takes on the US's global adversaries, but you won't have to put up with weird takes on the US.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Do you prefer North Korea and refer to South Korea as ‘Occupied Korea’? Those are the types of people on hexbear, lemmygrad, and .ml

[–] [email protected] 17 points 5 days ago

... no. I was banned from r/pyongyang on reddit lol

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