Comment on Hexbear federation megathread
booty@hexbear.net 1 year agoI’m going to engage you in good faith, even though I don’t truly think you deserve it. Of course we want to “propagandize the fediverse” because we think our opinions are correct. If we didn’t think our opinions were correct we’d hold different opinions and want to propagandize the fediverse with those other opinions (like you do). Being a “centrist” or “apolitical” or whatever is itself an ideology, and you are no less trying to push your ideology than we are trying to push ours.
For what it’s worth, Reddit already tried to “nip this in the bud” by “defederating” us years ago. That’s essentially what the quarantine system on Reddit is. It’s supposed to be a death sentence for a subreddit, because you can’t view the sub on mobile or without a verified email, it never gets advertised anywhere, and any time you try to navigate to it you get a “this subreddit is bad and very no good, you should go elsewhere, are you sure you want to see this terrible content?” And we kept growing during the quarantine so much that the admins had to make up an excuse to ban the sub entirely (and then many other subs which overlapped in userbase, as well as a couple subs that were basically unrelated, just to really stamp out any hint of our userbase).
Defederating from us won’t solve the problem. Just like on Reddit, we will continue our legitimate criticisms of the system and we will continue to grow and influence the political climate of the fediverse and, unfortunately for the likes of you, there are no Reddit admins here to ban us. Basically what I’m saying is, it’s impossible to get rid of us so you might as well just get used to being called out when you say bigoted shit
dmrzl@programming.dev 1 year ago
“I’m going to engage you in good faith, even though I don’t truly think you deserve it.”
Wall of text introduced by poisoning the well. Exactly the reason I find it hard to take anything from hexbear serious.
booty@hexbear.net 1 year ago
300 words is a wall of text?
And I was proven right that the user in question did not deserve good faith engagement. They dismissed everything I said and refused to actually take part in any sort of conversation, while throwing insults at me.
dmrzl@programming.dev 1 year ago
Exactly the intended effect of poisoning the well. So your method of communication works as intended, whether you realize it or not.
booty@hexbear.net 1 year ago
It was just part of my honesty. Laying all my cards on the table. I was saying that even though I am an asshole and would rather just reply to you all with pigpoopballs, I’ve gone out of my way to open a respectful dialogue. I’m not going to lie to you and say that I like being civil with liberals who constantly post genocide denial and western propaganda and homophobia and racism. I hate you. But I’m willing to set that aside to have a conversation. Liberals are not.