Menachem

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submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 

Has anyone else noticed how prevalent Hexbear posters have suddenly become? Maybe sometime last week I noticed nearly every political post had at least one long thread of Hexbear users that do nothing but repeat CCP talking points while waving anyway anything even remotely reliable as Western propaganda. That or getting all excited about trolled libs. The way they tell it, you'd think everything from DW, to Fox, to Propublica, to straight up AP News articles, are all written by the same people.

Not to mention, their info on the Fediverse observer is either straight up wrong or there's some serious botting going on. According to that, the instance is less than a month old, yet somehow they already have one of the largest, most active userbases, along with far and away the most comments of any instance.

Seems to me like Lemmygrad on steroids. Considering we defederated from them, seems like a no-brainer to block Hexbear as well.

So glad this thread could become such a perfect microcosm of why we need to defederate.

[–] [email protected] 174 points 2 years ago (18 children)

of course the one person in europe who owns a pickup would park it on the sidewalk

[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 years ago

finish reading the comment, theyre not the same

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (3 children)

Maybe I've just spent too long arguing with aholes on the internet but to me calling someone "friend" comes across as very sarcastic and condescending

Edit, it's like calling someone you don't know "buddy" or "pal"

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

who the hell is joe

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

it is on lemm.ee too, idk why they said that

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 years ago

twitter. thats as deep as it goes. like how they try to get people to put hashtags in their titles despite no one using hashtags to find videos. corporations try not to turn everything into a homogeneous blob challenge: impossible.

it's funny because they tried to do this push a few years ago too where everyone new had an @ and they eventually dropped it because it was dumb. i guess whichever exec thought that was a good idea never actually left

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

yeah the site wouldnt load for me at the time but it does now

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I bet we fall just outside the top 10. Seems pretty busy here to me, plus our LOTR memes make top upvoted pretty frequently. Honestly I'm wondering if the user distribution might be pretty dang good below the top 5 servers or so; 234k could be a serious underestimation of the actual active userbase if the next 20 servers all have 1k+

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Someone is posting James tits?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 years ago

In our current unparalleled enterprise, refusal to switch platforms is simply a refusal to grow—an insistence on watching ads, if you will. Did the Digg user refuse to Reddit? It did not. It crept forth boldly while its brethren remained in the blackest ocean abyss, with lidless eyes forever staring at the dark, ignorant and doomed despite their eternal vigilance. Would we model ourselves on the Facebook user?

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

Why Cant I Hold All These ~~new traffic~~ Bananas -every instance, today, colorized

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Full disclosure, I don't know a ton either, but my guess would be that making even more calls like that would make server load even worse

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