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I take it you had to deal with the Hexbears? Idiots.
they're on other instances as well
edit: having to go through posts like these and blocking all the invader apologists isn't fun, but it beats accidentally reading their drivel again
Such a worthless use of brain cells. Imagine being the product of billions of years of evolution and becoming that.
I'm sure some are on a payroll. You don't get a weird narrative like that started without planting a seed.
It's not a coincidence they look like a better version of 2015 the_donald.
They even mocked me when I said I expected to get banned for saying that... and then banned me. Weird how that works.
Yes, the Russian troll farm pays me to post for the dozen weirdos who actually read this on here. Money well spent!
Makes perfect sense.
Ikr? I wonder what their parents think of them.
Didn't lemmy.ca defed with Hexbear because someone called (in jest) for death to landlords while Canada experiences it's biggest housing crisis ever and rents are rising rapidly YoY solely because landlords, who otherwise deliver no intrinsic value in their position, found a way to make more money from the increased demand?
No, that wasn't the reason and if it's the only one you can think of you have no idea how toxic and disgusting the hexbear community is. I hate landlords too but these people are really taking it so much further than joking about dead landlords.
And, as I recently got downvoted on lemmy.ca for pointing out, it's not (directly) due to landlords, there's just not enough houses built, and I can cite sources on that.
That was one of the big reasons made in the post about Hexbear defed.
The other ones were nebulous concerns about Hexbear comments in other instances... Which, by definition, is the responsibility of those other instances.
The idea that you can't judge anyone by actions not in your personal instance is just such terminally online idiocy. Trolls always seem shocked that their behavior might actually follow them around rather than being conveniently compartmentalized so they can start their trolling fresh before burning out a new instance.
It's the instance's responsibility for policing it's own instance.
And defederation was the action that the instance decided to policy them. If users from that instance take up the majority of their moderation effort, taking into account that instance owners are volunteers and paying for the instance, it does not surprise me.
But why would they? As discussed, very little content was posted on lemmy.ca (where the instance owners actually have moderation power) and of that, most of it was fairly tame.
"Death to landlords" is, while somewhat extreme, a sentiment that is shared by a lot of people in Vancouver and Toronto. These are cities that are facing a record housing and affordability crisis with no indication that the government will intervene.
Defederation based on political ideology seems, well, rather harmful to a healthy democracy... Which, given that lemmy.ca is supposed to represent Canadians, is rather harmful for Canada.