Am I in the minority of users when I pick communities I’m interested in to subscribe to and never look at “all”? I’ve never even seen the communities that people are talking about here.
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MrMonkey@lemm.ee 10 months ago
Hexbear is making Lemmy unbearable for me. There’s no function for a user to block everything from a server. I don’t want to see their communities, their users, their posts, their messages, or their votes showing up.
I block communities as they come up, I block individuals as they post, but it’s never ending.
Every popular post is over-run with tankies shitposting, griding real conversation to a halt.
They’re not people open to having a conversation in good faith.
A first timer looking would see 90% tankie crap and would leave and not come back.
I’ve contributed less since they were joined simply because I don’t want a herd of tankies yelling at me with nobody else even reading it.
Until such a time that I, as a user, can bock everything from a server I support defederation. Or at the very least put a giant poop emoji next to everything from that server so it’s easier to skip. They seem to like poop.
EinfachUnersetzlich@lemm.ee 10 months ago
torknorggren@lemm.ee 10 months ago
I don’t get enough content in my subbed communities, so I usually look at All. There’s definitely a lot of hexbear, but I don’t find it overwhelming. Over the last day, it’s been dwarfed by the LTT drama.
WarmSoda@lemm.ee 10 months ago
If you’re going to look at All, that’s what you’re going to see. All.
If your subs aren’t providing enough content then sub to more comms. I barely ever look at All anymore. When I do though I hopefully find some new comm to sub to. That’s basically what it’s good for.
NuPNuA@lemm.ee 10 months ago
I had noticed everyone seems to be talking about LTT all of a sudden. Bizarre for what seems like a mid tech entertainment channel when I’ve stumbled on them.
OldFartPhil@lemm.ee 10 months ago
I use the All feed to discover communities I’d like to subscribe to. I know there are other resources for that, but they all require you to know what content you’re looking for. Sometimes i just like free-range exploring.
diablexical@lemm.ee 10 months ago
They show up in other communities though, when I see a low effort/meme shitpost and check the user it seems the majority are coming from there.
diablexical@lemm.ee 10 months ago
They show up in other communities though, when I see a low effort/meme shitpost and check the user it seems the majority are coming from there.
limelight79@lemm.ee 10 months ago
I really wish there was something between “all” and “subscribed”. Reddit had “popular”, and it was the default view, I think.
Jaded@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 months ago
Kind of crazy to see the red scare back in full force
MrMonkey@lemm.ee 10 months ago
What part of “toxic shitposters with toxic mods should be defederated” is “red scare”?
Jaded@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 months ago
The part where he uses the word tankie every sentence and bans anyone from that instance arbitrarily.
Tankie is the new derogatory word for any socialist/communist. Yes I know what it actually means but clearly not every member of hexbear is a Stalin apologist and most of them aren’t shit posters. Yet here we are, with certain users so scared of the red they block users on sight regardless of what they are saying.
If you used an app that doesn’t show you what instance people belong too, you wouldn’t be able to tell them from other users.
lukini@beehaw.org 10 months ago
When I say tankie, I’m referring to the people toeing the party line of the CCP and Putin. That isn’t communism; that’s a specific breed of “communism” that’s mostly capitalism surrounding cults of personality.
If you used an app that doesn’t show you what instance people belong too, you wouldn’t be able to tell them from other users.
If half the people I saw from hexbear weren’t spamming their huge emotes every other comment, I might be inclined to agree. If they weren’t the only people in threads (besides lemmygrad) supporting authoritarian regimes, I might be inclined to agree. Sadly, both of those happen often in my experience.
You’re free to disagree with me on the comments I just made, that’s what’s great about discussions online, but hexbear members are very confrontational, to a trollish degree, in how they discuss these topics from what I’ve seen. It doesn’t need to be “every member” of hexbear as you say. It just has to be a big enough problem that the mods and users want it gone. That is happening fairly often recently based on the posts showing up when I browse lemmy. Hell, that’s how I ended up here.
lukini@beehaw.org 10 months ago
Don’t conflate communism with tankie shitposting. I’m fine with communists. I don’t want troll comments. But this isn’t my instance.
limelight79@lemm.ee 10 months ago
I agree with you. I’ve read thread after thread where they show up and start insulting people for not knowing about some minor event that happened in South America 50 years ago that means Ukraine is in the wrong now, or something like that. Then they start piling on each other, and the noise drives out the actual conversation.
I had the exact same thought as you - they are not commenting in good faith. They flat out admit they are here to just argue with people (it was in a post in one of their communities that I’ve now blocked). They will not respect your viewpoint if it at all disagrees with them. I’ve seen that time and time again over the past few days.
Honestly, it’s makes me want to go back to reddit. I assume they were banned there for brigading, because sure as hell that’s what it looks like is happening here. If you see one hexbear user comment in a thread, you’ll see at least 100 more.
Defederate them, at least until I can wholesale block them myself. They are not contributing.