they were originally refugees from the reddit ban of r/chapotraphouse (which, while cringy, was not nearly as bad as r/the_donald that got banned in the same wave. but the reddit admins had a thing for being "fair and balanced")

[–] vikingtons 1 points 6 days ago (2 children)

I'm not familiar with the first subreddit, what was that about?

[–] cm0002 5 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Hex, .ml and grad are part of the Tankie Triad. Tankies are authoritarians and often hard to tell apart from far right nutjobs

[–] vikingtons 3 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Oh right. When I first heard about Lemmy, I tried to join .ml because it was the first instance I was made aware of. I think it was being rate limited at the time due to that whole reddit exodus thing, and I wasn't able to get through, but. .world let me sign up so here I am.

I'd like to think that members of a given instance have their own opinions. It's sad to hear about how territorial lemmy is.

[–] cm0002 2 points 6 days ago

It's sad to hear about how territorial lemmy is.

Not really territorial, more... despises authoritarianism in all its forms lol.

While I'm sure there are plenty of non-tankie .ml users, the problem is with the admins and mods being the biggest Tankies around who enforce the "Tankie ideology" throughout.

Go checkout .ml memes, anything posted that's Tankie-like will even sometimes get tons of downvotes as the post gets federated to non-Tankie instances but never removed.

Conversely, anything posted that's even slightly critical of China/Russia is quickly removed under the catch-all "Rule 1 bigotry" (You'll have to check the modlog for that)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago (1 children)

It was by the largest (by a fair margin) socialist-aligned subreddit, but in practice it was like 60% shitposts. Was originally associated with the eponymous podcast, but the hosts have repeatedly said they disliked it.

[–] vikingtons 1 points 6 days ago

Ah right. Appreciate the info!

[–] [email protected] 46 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Lemmy, in general, is left leaning with the lead dev and "main" instance being unabashedly tankies.

Hexbear is the big instance of people who are so fucked they tend to get banned even from there. The ml crowd is generally still worth talking to. Whereas the hexbear crowd immediately jump to harassment the moment they decide you failed a purity test because you advocated for a social program rather than insisting the entire system needs to be burned down and a managed economy run by putin put in its place.

Needless to say: Anyone who spends enough time "on lemmy" is either on an instance that banned hexbear or muted them themselves.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago

I leave em, it's fun to watch them go and post their stickers, it's almost like twitch chat

[–] vikingtons 15 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Appreciate the explanation. I've seen some remarks about the instance in passing, I've just never paid close enough attention to how communities have interacted with each other in the past.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Hexbear is the big instance of people who are so fucked they tend to get banned even from there.

No, no. They're a group of posters so awful they got banned from Reddit.

And let's be honest, you can be pretty much the worst person on earth and survive in your own little bubble on Reddit, but, for whatever reason, they couldn't.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

I feel attacked lmao, reddit automoda/policy is abusive now, I commented on a front page post with an alt and it permbanned 3 of my 10 year old accounts instantly no appeal. I kinda do like that they forced me to give lemmy a second look.

The mods just ban ppl willy nilly, how am i supposed to keep track of what banned me, if they have detection tools they should be able to auto ban my alts or hide those subs from my view or better yet not even let me comment on them, instead they asssume evasion and perm ban your ip.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

My revenge was deleting every helpful post/comment I had (I got lazy 5 minutes in kinda sucks that there is no way to delete your post history once reddit bans you, you can delete your account but posts and commentd stay up, the only way to remove them is to edit them)

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago

Oh, maybe I wasn't clear: this isn't the usual mods doing mods, they were such bad posters the admins banned their entire sub.

Getting banned from a subreddit is easy, getting the admins to kick you, your friends, and your community off the site requires exquisite and well-developed shitposting skills beyond those of most mortals.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

Yeah...

Spend some time in the "I hate reddit and am glad I am never going back but do you think reddit still thinks about me and hey, can I take a picture of your penis and send it to show reddit that my new boyfriend is massive?" communities. LOTS of the folk around here have those "I was banned for absolutely nothing" mentalities.

And it shows with how fast people are to "clown on" folk with just blatant insults.

Those folk aren't at all exclusive to hexbear.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 week ago

When I accidentally interacted with one of their communities, it basically felt like a tankie 4chan. After that I just banned the entire instance.

[–] motor_spirit 12 points 1 week ago

cunts, tale as old as time

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

The common clay of the fediverse.