Comment on Hexbear federation megathread

littlecolt@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• Flaps@hexbear.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  ‘They want to be targets of hate’ is pretty yikes when a lot of people in the community are or have been, ya know, actual targets of hate IRL dawg

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  • littlecolt@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    What other reason is there to troll but to make others mad and be hated?

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    • oregoncom@hexbear.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      What other reason is there for you to be a brony other than because you want people to feel disgust at you?

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      • Hexagons@hexbear.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Dude, uncalled for. Liking my little pony isn’t disgusting. Fucking chill out

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    • Flaps@hexbear.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Idk about your experience. Having read other comments I regret that someone is making fun of you for liking my little pony. I don’t care about that. I’ve also read that your insulting previous comment was made while drunk. I don’t care about that either.

      Would it be possible to give a link to the trolling? Just so I know where you’re coming from

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      • littlecolt@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Replying again. Yeah, I will have to keep my eye open. Going back in my inbox, I see some of the trolling that was replies to me, and they are all just removed by mod now.

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• oregoncom@hexbear.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  A brony calling other people childish is uhhhh… something.

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  • alcoholicorn@hexbear.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Is being an asshole back to the guy really productive, here or in general?

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    • oregoncom@hexbear.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      People with no self awareness need to be made fun of. It’s the only way they’ll learn. I’m doing him a service.

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      • alcoholicorn@hexbear.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        This ain’t it chief

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      • Jok3r@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        So hexbear of you. People who think differently should be made fun of. Or dunked on I think you guys call it

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      • very_poggers_gay@hexbear.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        maybe about politics but not about a tv show or harmless interest 🤝

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  • littlecolt@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Well, I was drunk when I posted the above. No filter. It’s ironic, I was generalizing up there pretty badly, and your response is to generalize back about something completely unrelated.

    I know a lot of bronies, and most of them are plenty mature, not childish. I wonder if the same can be said of Hexbear users.

    Those with no self awareness should really think before posting… Though I suppose that is not your strong suit.

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    • oregoncom@hexbear.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      officer I was drunk when I ran over that toddler

      It’s a children’s show, for children. Bronies bullied the actual children the show was for out of the fandom for that show. You deserve the contempt for being a Brony.

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      • littlecolt@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Lol you really know nothing but what people who also hate bronies have told you. Fantastic.

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• Azzu@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I had an entirely pleasant interaction when I brought up exactly what you did just now, but I worded it not quite as negatively as you did, and I didn’t generalize as much.

  Every instance has people of the kind you just described. Could there be a larger percentage of those on hexbear? Sure, but I reckon not by incredibly much. Saying “nothing of value would be lost” is incredibly disrespectful to the majority of people that are not like this, probably only lurking. Of course you notice the negative interactions immediately and they stay in your mind, and if you don’t reattempt civility with other people, and instead immediately come from a place with anger about these negative interactions, then it’s just going to get self-reinforcingly worse and worse.

  It’s quite hard to see the person behind the username, the person behind the group. It’s much easier to just say “all people from hexbear are trolls and childish and nothing of value”, while that is obviously untrue, it’s not all, probably not even most, and starting with “all” just immediately instills a “us vs them” tribalism mentality which inevitably leads to more negative behavior.

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  • littlecolt@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I admit, I was drunk last night and I posted that off the cuff. It’s true, there are probably fine users on Hexbear. I think that perhaps if defed does occur, the users who want to genuinely participate might come make alt accounts on other instances.

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