alt text: A tweet by an AI generated dril clone called “drilbot_neo” that reads: oh youre worth $200 million?? im work 0 million and im going to beat you to death" originally published on 28 January 2021.

  • Shalakushka@kbin.social
    82·
    1 year ago

    I wish hexbear was like this, instead they fellate capitalist imperialist autocrats like Putin because it feels cooler to be a contrarian than class conscious to them.

    • CoderKat@lemm.eeEnglish
      27·
      1 year ago

      Yeah, it’s so weird that they’re sooooo in love with Russia and China. They claim to be communist and/or socialist, but those countries aren’t what I’d consider to be either of those things. They’re just… regular ol’ dictatorships full of human rights abuses. Why the hell would they want to support them?

    • Omega_Haxors@lemmy.ml
      17·
      1 year ago

      Hexbear is good for one thing and one thing alone: Tearing the incoming wave of neo-fascists from reddit a new one. Regulars know not to mess with them but newcomers will try (and fail) to debate them which always results in hilarity and a lot of accounts getting banned.

      • nwordsayer@lemm.ee
        6·
        1 year ago

        You’re making hexbear sound more badass than they really are. In reality, they’re chapo rentoids who live in mommy’s basement

    • yetAnotherUser@feddit.de
      10·
      1 year ago

      But but but billionaire nationalist dictator from country opposing “west” = opposing capitalism = supporting (my flavor of) communism good???

      Seriously, how do you even arrive at such conclusions? What would Russia et al need to do to be perceived as worse than “the west”?

    • Lianodel@ttrpg.networkEnglish
      5·
      1 year ago

      Yeah, that drove me absolutely up the wall. Russia’s economy was liberalized after the fall of the Soviet Union, and China even invited Milton Goddamn Friedman to consult on their economic plans.

    • Mr_Buscemi@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      21·
      1 year ago

      This is why I laughed when I saw the post on lemmy.ml with that screenshot from reddit of a user complaining about Lemmy.

      All the comments were acting as if everything the user said was wrong and Lemmy has no problems.

      This site has a shit ton like how you experienced.

      • CoderKat@lemm.eeEnglish
        13·
        1 year ago

        Bear in mind that some instances blocked Hexbear and similar. This means that what people perceive as the fediverse can be very different. Some instances are super curated while others see warts and all.

        Plus some users have blocked the instance on their side. Easy to forget how bad things are when you utilize blocking.

        But we (as a collective) do need to remember that what we experience isn’t the same as what a potential new member experiences. Which is why I now advocate defederating instances like Hexbear. I really didn’t want to for a while, but eventually it became clear that they’re too aggressive and bad for the fediverse as a whole.

        • Franzia@lemmy.blahaj.zone
          5·
          1 year ago

          Every once in a while I see people criticizing Beehaw and Blahaj for censorship or being too sensitive. Like… I don’t have to see quite as much garbage, thanks.

        • Default_Defect@midwest.socialEnglish
          3·
          1 year ago

          Mine hasn’t blocked anything as far as I know. The majority of content I see is fine though, its just that little bit that gets… wild. I’m a bit used to seeing shit takes and actual unhinged lunacy from twitter and reddit though, so it not too jarring.

        • Mr_Buscemi@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
          8·
          1 year ago

          Oh yeah it’s gotten toxic there too. I get linked to reddit stuff a lot by friends so I sometimes read the comments. People are so angry there.

          It began getting more intolerable in June before all the bullshit happened. Can’t imagine how it would be to just use Reddit alone now.

            • Mr_Buscemi@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
              3·
              1 year ago

              That site really brought the worse out in people lol. I actually had a user curse me out in modmail because I removed a post of theirs for animal cruelty. Had to quit modding there because my blood pressure was getting worse each time I opened the app. Actually got my blood pressure taken last week for the first time since June and it was super low, so I will always now say leaving Reddit did it lol.

              Lemmy in areas such as this or your instance are some of my favorite places on this site. No stress or users who want to cause issues with others.

      • Socsa@sh.itjust.works
        8·
        1 year ago

        It’s definitely more than a little bit jarring how completely mask off they’ve gone recently. At first I felt like they were making an effort at being like “look at us libs, being le intellectual.” It was an enormously stupid and transparent effort, but it was detectable.

        Now they are pretty openly just calling for mass murder and terrorism. They don’t even seem to be doing the “meme cover” at this point. They are openly fantasizing about exterminating normal people.

        It’s actually a pretty interesting view of how extremism kind of always evolves into the same crab eventually.

    • AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world
      15·
      1 year ago

      FIFA needs to be defederated from the real world. Soccer is cool, and y’all should definitely keep that around, but damn, I think the cocaine cartels in Bolivia are a bit less corrupt than FIFA