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[–] [email protected] 195 points 1 year ago (125 children)

People who think being a jackass is a form of activism. That's all you really need to know.

[–] [email protected] 92 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Uh hello, it's called jacktivism.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 year ago (6 children)

Oh right! I thought that was... uhhh ... something else

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[–] [email protected] 180 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Weirdly intense and antagonistic internet communists.

Like, picture that guy you avoided conversations with when you were 19.

[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (20 children)

Because, Id wager, their userbase is primarily edgy leftist teenagers, really kind of like if 4chan was left and not right.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago

Can confirm, was an edgy leftist teenager on hexbear right when it was started – after r/chapotraphouse was banned.

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[–] [email protected] 177 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (11 children)

A social network that was formed as a fork of lemmy, before lemmy had really entered the fediverse (tho they were planning to). Both Lemmy and Hexbear had communists among their founders, but the Hexbear devs found it more... Central to their objectives. When Lemmy federated, Hexbear didn't. It planned to initially, but ended up being pretty satisfied of being a small, yet centralized social network, basically a communist Reddit. But the idea of joining the Fediverse appeared tempting once again with the boom that happened on Mastodon when the muskrat ate the bird, and to a greater extent when Reddit changed their API policy and lost a lot of the user's trust, causing many redditors to move to Lemmy.

Hexbear devs then worked to essentially make it a Lemmy instance, but there were always disagreements about who to federate with. They first federated with Lemmygrad and Lemmy .ml. Lemmy .world quickly blocked them. They temporarily federated with sh .itjust .works, but this wasn't well received on either side, so this was soon undone.

Ideology wise, pretty much everyone on Hexbear is some kind of communist. However, altho the "tankie", pro-russia type is often seen, it's not that homogeneous (there are even anarchist channels over there), arguably less than lemmygrad.

[–] [email protected] 38 points 1 year ago

I think this is the most fair shakedown I've seen so far

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[–] [email protected] 133 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (41 children)

Ever wanted to be talked down to by a 14 year old alt-right sociopath who pretends to support lgbt so they can stealthily insult liberals and blame western whites for how China is?

Edit; downvote more, at the end of the day you're still a hexbear 🤢

[–] obinice 59 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Gods yes, it's all I've ever wanted. Do they do birthdays?

[–] [email protected] 43 points 1 year ago

No, celebrations of any kind are western propaganda. Your question has been audited and was found to have negative implications towards the state. Shock troops have been dispatched to your most recent location, have a great day, comrade.

[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

holy fuck I laughed out loud at this outside by myself at ten to 1am .. I didnt know what hexbear was, soooo, I reported a post for saying that anyone who ever supports a democratic candidate in america needs to be hit by a truck, and that violence needs to befall them, so the mod I reported it to posted my username and announced I had reported it in a comment to that post. people then piled on saying how I was a hypocrite and deserved violence brought against me, because violence has been done by cops agains homeless and trans people. also, that all I care about is getting brunch

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[–] [email protected] 109 points 1 year ago (11 children)

A lemmy instance full of trolls and people celebrating chinese and russian fascism in the name of socialism

[–] [email protected] 41 points 1 year ago (26 children)

i once read a thread where they were saying to defederate from everyone. then why federate in the first place

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[–] [email protected] 85 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Its a 6 sided bear, the peak of the polygonal phylogeny.

Monomouse

Duodugong

Traye-aye

Quadferret

Pentacoyote

Hexbear

Heptaherpeton - this is the furthest we've discovered in the polygonal phylogeny but research indicates the likely existence of an octorca as well

[–] Agent641 41 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Octoria are scientifically impossible, the grazing territory requirements alone for a sustainable breeding colony would be immense. Any reports of them in the wild are either misidentified pairs of quadferrets copulating, or hoaxes perpetuating the psuedoscience.

[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 year ago (9 children)

quadferrets copulating

That's where you're messing up. Those are pentacoyotes, not quadferrets. The contact side between two polygonimals mating is actually obscured, so the actual number of sides in a copulation configuration is the sum of the sides of all involved polygonimals - 2. Therefore the octorca could not be two mating quadferrets, but could be two pentacoyotes, or a chain of duodugongs.

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[–] [email protected] 64 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I've read all the comments here and still don't have a clue what a hexbear is

[–] seejur 62 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (14 children)

So you know the Lemmy instance Lemmy.world? Well, there is another instance called hexbear... Which is full of hardcore, Stalinist communist. And every user of every other instance hates them

[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (7 children)

Why do people always put labels on them as if that's the reason they are idiots. It's not. There just a bunch of obnoxious trolls that have made it their mission to annoy other instances.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I mean being a Stalinist and being an idiot are kind of one and the same are they not?

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[–] Astroturfed 30 points 1 year ago (5 children)

It's a lemmy instance full of edge lords who are pro-totiltarian communism. The bulk of them think Mao and Stalin were good. Deny any atrocities committed by USSR/China. Also, for some reason tend to be super pro Russia. Due to NATO being on the opposite side they support Russia and call Ukrainian/NATO nations Nazis.

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[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Instance is hexbear.net, check it out for yourself, doesn't work in browser for me without an account but it does work in liftoff without one for some reason.

It is weird that a lot of commenters here want to tell you what they are but don't say how to find this information by yourself.

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[–] [email protected] 48 points 1 year ago (28 children)

my problem with this thread; u can't tell who is actually communist and authoritarian, and who is just authoritarian

[–] Iron_Lynx 41 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

Leninist/Stalinist/Maoist/"Left" Authoritarian Communism is just authoritarian nationalist state capitalism that uses classist rhetoric instead of (or as well as) racist rhetoric.

And before people call me a tankie: Anything authoritarian is trash-tier shit.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 year ago

Lol a tankie would never admit that. No threat of you getting called a tankie.

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[–] [email protected] 40 points 1 year ago (20 children)

I don't really care about the hexbears either way, the ones I've seen haven't been too bad though I've heard there are some really bad ones

What bothers me more is how quick mods seem to be to shut down any discussion about them whatsoever

Went on the Lemmy matrix to ask about them one time and I just got one guy flooding the chat with "you should observe for yourself and form your own opinions"

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[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 year ago (3 children)

A large part of it is a fanbase of Chapo Trap House which has a particular brand of humor that is rampant with esoteric inside jokes that are vulgar as a point, let alone to the extreme.

That humor, especially without that frame of reference, usually offends your average internet denizen.

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[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 year ago (10 children)

Edge lords who couldn't handle someone telling them they were wrong, so they had big sook and defedederated after a day.

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[–] 0Empty0 25 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What are the odds of incoming drama in this post about tankies? I'll say -110.

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