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I saw a post that talked about racism towards people and when I talked about it the response I got was very heated and a person even called lemmy.world a community of 'hitlerites'

I have been around for a week or so and this is my first time seeing such explicit vulgar reaction towards another community, is this a one-off or should I block hexbear?

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 59 minutes ago (2 children)

Seems this post is being brigaded by hexbear alts fyi

[–] [email protected] 1 points 49 minutes ago

I bet they are russian trolls /s

[–] [email protected] 1 points 53 minutes ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 48 minutes ago (1 children)

Yep lots of pro hex comments appeared as I was posting from accounts with little comment history but aged accounts. Probably some loser with a dozen

[–] [email protected] 0 points 45 minutes ago (1 children)

I re-create an account everyday, idiot.

Otherwise I have to care about moderation. It's a bore

[–] [email protected] 3 points 35 minutes ago (1 children)

You need better hobbies man

[–] [email protected] 1 points 33 minutes ago (1 children)

I already answered that yesterday. I do have hobbies, you guys are mere entertainment. Don't flatter yourself.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 32 minutes ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 30 minutes ago

But yeah otherwise my breakcore album is about 90% done and I'm getting getter at rock climbing.

My life is great, thanks for asking

[–] [email protected] 2 points 49 minutes ago

Here's my take...

They're more cohesive and insular than most groups you'll find on social media.

They've brewed their own strongly held culture and ideology.

Many are also used to being ostracised by other communities due to sexual preferences or other personal attributes.

The result is, if you naively post in a thread in which they are active your opinion will get stomped on if it does not directly align with theirs.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago) (5 children)

ITT: everyone says they're bad without giving any examples, telling you what to think instead of letting you form your own conclusions.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

ITT: the example is in the past and OP is asking why they're bad.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 33 minutes ago

If there's no link it's not an example it's an anecdote.

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

I would ask them in their Q&A comm

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago) (1 children)

A place with a high amount of queer and trans socialists that all the cishets on the fediverse mald about. The instance is something like 66% queer / queer adjacent and 51% are trans / trans adjacent. Essentially, a lot of people are very aggro about the fact that they have carved a safe space out for themselves prior to lemmy becoming popular recently. Tldr:

Here's some of their demographic surveys.

https://hexbear.net/post/2687582

https://hexbear.net/post/3635039

[–] [email protected] 3 points 58 minutes ago

I don't think that's why I find them so unpleasant though?

I don't come here to talk about sexual preferences.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 hours ago

It's a bear with six legs

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

Fuck stop appearing in my frontpage

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