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.

  • monobot@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    As a rule the US government does not mislead its own citizens the way Russia and China do.

    I think most of users on hexbear and lemmygrad are not from US, so internal US politics is not so important to them, foreign policy is and that's where US made a lot of haters.

    It is not even that surprising, every country that was in war with US involved is not liking it, no one likes other nation's army on their teritory, whatever the reason.

    • ZoomeristLeninist [comrade/them, she/her]
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      1 year ago

      lol what? hexbear is largely amerikan. we just have a lot of international users bc we arent racist. US internal politics are horrific as well. Biden wrote the bill responsible for the massive increase in policing and the war on drugs in 1994

      • monobot@lemmy.ml
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        1 year ago

        Makes sense, since podcast is from US too. Thank you for correcting me, I have never spent much time there since I don't get the humor.

        • ZoomeristLeninist [comrade/them, she/her]
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          1 year ago

          no problem. ik theres a lot of inside jokes so it can be confusing at first, but we are very welcoming as long as ur receptive to left-wing politics and act in good faith