Comment on can we please defederate from hexbear
Cavemanfreak@lemm.ee 1 year ago
This comment section is a prime example. They brigade every single post about China/Russia or about them, and if you find one there are ten others there as well. If you think lemmygrad is bad, hexbear is way worse.
Parsani@hexbear.net 1 year ago
PM_ME_YOUR_FOUCAULTS@hexbear.net 1 year ago
BeamBrain@hexbear.net 1 year ago
Removed Comment specter by PM_ME_YOUR_FOUCAULTS [he/him, they/them]
reason: I hope you’re just trying to make an edgy joke, but even so, Soviet symbolism has no place on lemm.ee.PM_ME_YOUR_FOUCAULTS@hexbear.net 1 year ago
Must have missed that in the rules 🙄
BeamBrain@hexbear.net 1 year ago
You’re only allowed to post the symbolism of good wholesome nations like the US (don’t ask what happened to all the Native Americans)
Freeanotherday@hexbear.net 1 year ago
booty@hexbear.net 1 year ago
Elon_Musk@hexbear.net 1 year ago
sunaurus@lemm.ee 1 year ago
The above users in this thread are posting (and then re-posting) soviet symbolism (and apparently calling me a Nazi for removing said content). I am banning the second user, as they are clearly aware that they are re-posting removed content.
Not sure if I actually have to justify removing soviet and/or nazi symbolism, but I have lived my whole life in a country on the border of Russia. My country been ravaged by both Nazis and Soviets in very recent history. I want to be clear that while I think criticising capitalism is totally normal and necessary, I am also extremely aware of constant Kremlin propaganda. Propaganda which is spread both in their media, but also crucially in online channels. Propaganda which includes things like downplaying horrifying actions of the soviet union, portraying their “enemies” (the west) in the worst possible light, and mixing in soviet symbolism wherever possible. I have no intention of allowing anything which resembles this propaganda to be spread through lemm.ee. If banning offending users does not work, then further steps will definitely be taken.
To the Hexbear users who are in this thread: I’m not sure what your goals are, but I’m sure you realize that this is the meta community of another instance, not some meme community. Are you trying to make your instance look bad? I see very few good faith posts from you guys here.
Odo@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Equating Nazi symbolism with Soviet ones just feels like such a weird thing to do, there’s a reason Nazi symbols are banned in several (if not a majority) of European countries, but is not the case at all when it comes to soviet symbols. I think it’s specially disappointing because the image that was originally shared was a reference to the “spectre” line in the communist manifesto. The hammer and sickle symbol has a long history that supersedes the history of the Soviet Union as a state, even my “third-world country” in Latin America (I’m sure you can see in the logs where I’m posting from) has a history of using the symbol for liberatory causes.
Starlet@hexbear.net 1 year ago
I see very few good faith posts from you guys here.
Complaining about bad faith communists after you ban communist symbols lenin-sure
marx_mentat@hexbear.net 1 year ago
You kinda do have to justify it because it’s not normal to equate nazi and Soviet symbols. That’s not something an average user would anticipate to encounter from an instance.
ShareThatBread@hexbear.net 1 year ago
Name your country, coward.
5ublimation@hexbear.net 1 year ago
I got paid millions of rubles by putin himself to post hammer-and-vibe
acastcandream@beehaw.org 1 year ago
It’s mind blowing the admins won’t defederate. This happens over and over again. Every single time a new forum builds traction the alt right freeze peach warriors roll through demanding civility and openness as they carpet bomb the area. I’m so tired of watching it. It’s beyond predictable. 
GarbageShoot@hexbear.net 1 year ago
“When we shit talk a community, members of the community respond. Must be a brigade.”