Comment on Hexbear federation megathread
NuPNuA@lemm.ee 1 year agoI mean, I was kind of talking the other way around, if I go from the west to a Middle Eastern country I’d have to change my behaviour, what I wear, etc.
Tipping is a good example here, in the UK we don’t do tipping in the same way as the US, but if we travel there we would be expected to and “we don’t do it like that in our country” isn’t an acceptable answer. Same here, I don’t buy, “we don’t have downvotes so have to send a picture of a pig having a Tom tit” as a valid excuse for behaviour either.
NailBunny@hexbear.net 1 year ago
Sure one might change their behaviors when traveling accordingly, but I think people would be generally understanding if an American tried to tip in the UK, and I would hope a waitress in America would understand why someone from the UK might not tip. With federation that lapse of culture is even more understandable because it’s not like I’m getting on a plane and traveling across the ocean, I’m just clicking a link that was already on my all on Hexbear. We’re also a lot larger/more active of an instance with almost quadruple the active monthly users of lemm.ee, and Hexbear has been around for about 3 years. A lot of the “brigading” people see is just the result of there being many active bears + this stuff showing up on our feeds + it being directly about us. When you consider all of these things, does it make a bit more sense why we might show up like a swarm of locusts throwing around our own inside jokes?