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.
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.
cowbee you are legitimately the goat, you are our patient bridge to those willing to learn
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 don’t think much about them at all unless they’re brought up. I do find the fact that they need to lie about us in order to make us look bad very telling though.
it’s not just lie; they tag every prolific leftist poster has tankies and share lists among themselves to help poison the well.
oh wow that’s…actually pretty pathetic. i guess in their minds they are fighting evil red fascists so any means make sense, but damn that is just sad.
it’s worse than just sad; it’s choking off their engagement and turning the non-political/technical communities into a sea of multiple inactive communities despite their significantly larger user base. if the leftists stopped commenting in their political communities, those would die off too.
Thank you, I agree, it’s difficult to view a truthful look into hexbear unless you are a part of an instance that is not defederating them or intentionally go onto the hexbear instance to check for yourself!
I’m honestly shocked with how much they would rather say just because of ideological differences .~.
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 just want to thank you for being open minded enough to give us a chance after how they talked shit about us
