The U.S. government puts out travel advisories for countries, informing its citizens about the relative safety of those places.
For the really bad ones, there are dire warnings about how likely death is.
There are probably many places people shouldn’t visit on the fediverse, and I think what’s missing is a way of warning people that they might be stumbling into one of those places. If instances could issue “advisories” to let people know that they’re about to visit a hive of shit posters and putlerbots, and flagging accounts as belonging to such hives, it would go a long way toward solving the problem.
I say this because defederation is tantamount to a travel ban, and that’s a big step.
pythonoob@programming.dev 1 year ago
That’s my main concern as well. I’ve asked a couple basic questions about their terminology and that is usually answered mostly straight, but with vocab that is so leftist and so foreign I don’t even understand it. And I think that’s the heart of the problem really. They have their own culture and own language over there and they come over here using it and antagonizing people who respond speaking essentially a different language. They claim to want to spread leftism but what I mostly see is them harassing people that were just doing their own thing before all this.
I’m fine with interacting with people of different ideologies and cultures, but I feel like the hexbears mostly just want to harass us “tankies”.
MolotovHalfEmpty@hexbear.net 1 year ago
A lot of Hexbear users are well versed in political theory and philosophy and to some degree the instance serve as a big reading group (as well as fun, hobbies, and shitposting) so I can definitely see how that could be a bit intimidating to stumble into. But in general people are passionate about sharing information, books, articles etc so if you’re unsure of anything just ask for an explanation and you’ll find plenty of people eager to help.
pythonoob@programming.dev 1 year ago
I appreciate that.
MolotovHalfEmpty@hexbear.net 1 year ago
No problem. Hope to see you in the future!
oregoncom@hexbear.net 1 year ago
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pythonoob@programming.dev 1 year ago
Yeah see, why the flame and anger? We’re here having a discussion. Case in point.
420blazeit69@hexbear.net 1 year ago
You’re coming into a thread after it has 1000+ comments, which itself is subsequent to a lot of informal discussion. There’s context here.
Part of that context is repeated accusations of Hexbear users brigading. The concept of brigading has its own issues, but to whatever degree it’s a real problem, users from other instances dropping in because a thread pops up in their feed (as you presumably did) is not brigading. Users from many instances have said they aren’t always sure where they are in every thread post-federation, and Hexbear users have said that, too.
oregoncom@hexbear.net 1 year ago
GarbageShoot@hexbear.net 1 year ago
Huh? Do you mean “liberals”? Hexbears are the ones liberals and leftcoms call “tankies”