My first time experience here had been very politically charged and I asked about it in askLemmy and I was told to immediately block you people in the options I was given
I had the opportunity to browse around and found out that you folk were decent and weren’t as awful as told in that post I made
How do you view .world and by extension other instances that defederate (and view negatively) towards you?
The biggest divide between Hexbear and the instances hostile towards Hexbear (not all instances are hostile to Hexbear, despite what many try to claim) is analysis of Imperialism. Hexbear largely agrees with Lenin when he analyzed how Capitalism eventually evolves into a form of international exploitation in the book Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism. Not everyone here is a Marxist, many are Anarchists, Syndicalists, or other forms of Leftist, but this central critique of Imperialism forms the basis of Hexbear’s overall foreign policy. There are other divides, of course, such as Hexbear’s unapologetic support for trans rights, veganism, opposition of the settler-colonial genocide in Palestine, and more, but the Imperialist critique is the biggest divide.
How do I view Lemmy.world? Fairly negatively. The Admins have admitted open hostility towards Marxism, and censor comments and posts that point to the Democrats being complicit in the genocide of Palestine. In addition, many users have been guilty of bigotry, and open transphobia I report seems to stay up as long as it’s directed towards Leftists.
Overall, if you’re chill, you’ll be fine here. Really, despite the fearmongering on other instances, my time on Hexbear is the most enjoyable. The News thread is informative, the general thread is fun to chill out in, the gaming comm is great for talking about Fallout: New Vegas (my hyperfixation, lol), and more. The people here are the friendliest on the Fediverse if you’re a Leftist, and the scariest if you’re a bigot.
Hope that about does it!
Fallout: New Vegas (my hyperfixation, lol)
Makes sense, 50% of hb is trans or questioning
We’ll get you, eventually. Fallout NV is just the beginning.
Jk it’s your journey and I was just memeing about FNV being THE Trans videogame.
cowbee you are legitimately the goat, you are our patient bridge to those willing to learn
I ran out of it on the Lemmy.world version of this post
Plus the mod banned me from the comm for a week for saying questioning trans users identities is transphobic by calling that “aggressively intentional misinterpretation.” Meanwhile open transphobia is left up and users unpunished. It is the oned calling out transphobia that are banned.
Lemmy World defederated from Hexbear for political reasons. They didn’t like explicitly socialist content. They are incapable of accepting its existence. They did this in tandem with banning leftists that were vocal and active on their platform at the time.
This is extremely obvious because at the time this occurred the reasong they claimed for the defederation was because that Hexbear does hate speech. This is blatantly bullshit to anyone that spends even the slightest amount of time here, Hexbear is probably the LEAST tolerant of reactionary behaviour and views of every lemmy that exists.
That however does not agree with the turbo neoliberals who run lemmyworld, who can not tolerate any views to the left of their own.
How do you view .world
Dot world has trended rightwards ever since the defederation of Hexbear and banning of leftists on it. They will continue to trend rightwards. If you remove left wing voices from your space the result is a right wing space that increasingly alienates everyone as it becomes more and more reactionary, with more and more people leaving because they can not tolerate how obnoxious the right is, and leadership increasingly will pander to the right when left with the choice of doing so or dying as a site as those are the only users they will still have.
I personally wanted to remain federated with lemmyworld in order to continue to engage liberals, educate them, and pull those that I could leftwards. The truth is that lemmyworld defederated because they knew I and others would have been successful in doing that. The majority of Hexbear would probably oppose federation now.
I’m shocked at how often people there claim that all our Communism and Trans posting is some sort of front and that we are actually secret right-wingers.
I have never been able to get a straight answer when I ask why a group of supposed right wingers would make a largely isolated instance to talk about theory, shitpost, support trans rights, foster a welcoming community, and create mutual aid comms to raise money for community members and Palestinians, but all ironically of course.
We literally did the Long March on a hopelessly incompatible fork of Lemmy years before the Reddit Exodus took place
constructing an intricate fantasy world is more appealing than acknowledging you’ve spent decades being wrong
I mean, kinda? Many right wingers will critique Capitalism but call it “corporatism,” AnCaps in a nutshell.
Fascists will claim to be against capitalism (citing Judeo-Bolshevism as the reason its not working), then turn everything over to capitalists so long as they help with genocide. AnCaps are just fascists too chickenshit to identify themselves as such.
I feel like the rest of the fediverse thinks about us a lot more than we think about them. We were here for years before most of the big Reddit-clone instances started up, and had already developed a significant site culture and norms. Many of us were ambivalent about federation in the first place, and .world and others defederating from us as a “preemptive last resort” was pretty much just funny. The hysterical propaganda about how insane and abusive we are is also funny; this is one of the friendliest and most supportive places on the internet as long as you’re not a fascist. We’re happy over here doing our thing away from all the Redditors.
I think a lot of the reddit clones really can’t conceive that anyone was here before they were and therefore thinks it must be bots or people using multiple accounts or Putin’s personal bodyguards
I’ve had mostly bad experiences with world users. Lots of blue MAGA liberal types, who think any criticism of democrats is a vote for trump (and now look what’s going on with the Gaza ceasefire…). I got banned over sharing the fact that democrat senator joe Lieberman single handedly tanked the public option of obamacare. And they really don’t like it when you support Luigi.
Honestly they’re “centrists” but leave racist and anti semitic (not anti Zionist, straight up anti semitic) content up while removing leftist content.
I’m over at the anarchist instance dbzer0 after my original account hosted on world got banned.
