I apologize. I acquired that term from hexbear users within the past month and I hoped to send them some kind of signal that our server was receptive to their users and not immediately hostile. Unfortunately, they still chose to be immediately hostile, so that didn’t work out. I was not aware of the derivation of the term, I thought it was just a zoomer term for a thread where people were flaming each other.
The discussion should be an integral part of the vote and decision making process and to me, dismissing it or shitting on in kinda stinks up the whole thing.
I completely agree. My assumption at the time was that the discussion was yet to unfold, and the thread I was linking was merely a flame war with no productive outcome. Which is technically true.
I shouldn’t have used that term without researching what it means, and I probably shouldn’t have agreed to federate with hexbear in the first place. But I wanted to give them a chance, because I believe in leftist ideals and I hoped they could help us.
Honestly at this point I feel like just leaving Lemmy entirely, because I’m trying to guide this community and it’s just an uphill battle that I will never win. Things have gotten distinctly more tedious in the past month, and I was hoping hexbear could inject new life into the rest of Lemmy. Now, I worry about whether there even is a viable path to relevancy for us.
I appreciate the fact that at least you give me the benefit of the doubt, unlike many others.
InEnduringGrowStrong@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
I think you’re an alright person fwiw and being a mod is a very ungrateful job.
It’s easy to see the stuff you wanna see and tell yourself you can just ignore the more extreme stuff.
But that’s dangerously insidious.
I’m somewhat of a leftist myself, at least in today’s Overton window, but I like my socialism to be bound by democracy rather than wielded as a weapon by authoritarians. I think what they’re doing, especially here, is not really in good faith.
They honestly give off a lot of the same vibes as the alt-right, and it kinda reminds me of the_donald, except they’re authoritarian leftists. I will always distrust authoritarians, even those I could otherwise agree with.
There’s a lot of othering, a lot of brigading, a lot of populism and nationalism and very cultist vibe.
When I came here, I enjoyed the smaller communities (than reddit) and people more talking with each other and less at each other. A more human interaction, so to speak, certainly more nuanced.
Some of that is bound to degrade as the feddiverse grows in numbers, but hexbears have definitely not been a positive in that regard these last few days, certainly not the loud ones who come here.