The mods of all the major communities there remove comments criticism Hexbear and usually follow it up with a ban. It’s absolutely clear what is happening and it shouldn’t be allowed to continue.
The mods of all the major communities there remove comments criticism Hexbear and usually follow it up with a ban. It’s absolutely clear what is happening and it shouldn’t be allowed to continue.
Part of the the reason nobody can stand hexbear or lemmy.ml is that the minute you try to engage with them you get banned. I was banned from hexbear simply for pointing out they had a whole comment thread full of personal abuse and calls to suicide against one of our users who had the temerity to argue a point with them. Of course, their mod was being congratulated by fellow hexbear users for quickly banning that user, but they had left all the hateful personal attacks and calls to suicide intact. Then, when I suggested the moderator actually clean up the comments and do their job as a moderator, I was immediately banned too.
In their eyes you’re either with them (a tankie) or against them (a fascist/nazi) and there are no other possibilities. It’s just classic tankie authoritarianism. It’s the way they can excuse their awful, abusive behaviours towards non-tankies, because if they consider all non-tankies to be nazis, then they are simply fighting nazis, so they’ve got what’s coming to them. It’s the exact same playbook Putin is using for his invasion of Ukraine.
Gonna be real with you:
I think it’s a bit wild that we’re still federated with instances that engage in censorship like this and have ideals that run counter to ours in so many ways. We literally have “No tankie shit” as an instance rule, yet we still let people like this spread their echo chamber nonsense through federation. You do realize that if they’re allowed to spread their ideology freely when we aren’t, that they have an advantage? “Repeat a lie often enough and it becomes the truth” and all that good stuff.
They have decided we aren’t worth listening to and their only reason they keep us around is to evangelize to. The fact I got an instance ban for this should be all the proof you need that discourse with these people is dead.
Personally I agree with you, and I’d be ok with defederation from hexbear. But there’s gotta be a consensus about it on dbzer0 first.
It’s funny how you picture this authoritarianism, and then this very thread is exactly about that : either you defederate from hexbear or you defederate from lemmy.world is the request here.
I’ve seen far far more fascists on lemmy than I’ve seen tankies BTW.
So you know maybe it’s lemmy.world that turned fascist and not lemmy.ml. Just food for thought here.