They have less than 500 MAU. It’s just a bunch of losers yelling at each other.
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NOT_RICK@lemmy.world 5 months ago
I knew hexbear was big but not that big
TexMexBazooka@lemm.ee 5 months ago
Blaze@sopuli.xyz 5 months ago
Interesting, I expected them to be much larger
TexMexBazooka@lemm.ee 5 months ago
Yeah I was surprised too, but if you go by MAU hexbear and Lemmy.Ml combined are just under 3k last I checked.
Lemm.ee alone has about that many, and Lemmy.world has many times that
FundMECFSResearch@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 months ago
They’ve existed for a while. A lot of subscribers are inactive users. Kind of like reddit where a sub can have 5k people and still be inactive.
flamingos@feddit.uk 5 months ago
It’s less that they’re big, but old.
WalrusDragonOnABike@lemmy.today 5 months ago
Not really surprising. 10 out of the 10 most commented posts in the past year are on hexbear (the top 2 being the weekly trans mega threads). Granted, a lot of that is just the hyper-active posting of a few users. Regardless, if you want a trans community, there’s basically no active alternative to hexbear’s traaa here.
NOT_RICK@lemmy.world 5 months ago
What about blahaj?
WalrusDragonOnABike@lemmy.today 5 months ago
I’m subscribed to pretty much all the trans coms I know of and traa is 90% of the trans content that shows up. Another 5% are other hexbear trans subs. Traa has as many comments in half a month as mtf@blajah has had in its entire existance and as many in a week as trans@blahaj has made in total (the two largest non-hexbear trans subs afaik).
ericjmorey@discuss.online 5 months ago
This reads like someone telling me that the nazi bar is the only place to go because the nazi bar has people there all the time and the other bars are mostly empty.
Alk@lemmy.world 5 months ago
What is hexbear? I never see it in my feed.
sunglocto@lemmy.zip 5 months ago
Your instance is defederated from them
JohnDClay@sh.itjust.works 5 months ago
It’s an instance mostly based around authoritarian communism. They got banished from Reddit quite a bit before the black out.
NOT_RICK@lemmy.world 5 months ago
It’s a leftist server. LW defederated from them months ago because they have some, well, interesting takes on things like the war in Ukraine. I can’t recall the exact cited reasons for defederation but I’m sure you could find the defederation post on lemmy world’s announcements page.
cows_are_underrated@feddit.org 5 months ago
Most instance defederated from because they are tankies that talk a lot of bullshit. However, im not entirely sure if I would really call them leftists. More like communistic Authoritarians, yes, communism is something mound mostly in left communities, but not to sure if their takes on human rights for people with other opinions and stuff like that makes them really left.
NOT_RICK@lemmy.world 5 months ago
I’d be comfortable calling many of them red fash but I was trying to be diplomatic.
thoro@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 months ago
.world never federated with Hexbear from what I remember. I’m pretty sure they were on the block list before Hexbear got federation completed. There was no single incident as far as I know.
Pandantic@midwest.social 5 months ago
Wrong. They federated with them then had a big discussion on if they should defederate (you can probably still find it in meta). It’s why I left - I prefer to make my own defederation decisions (and I like Hexbear, and Piracy too).
Source: I was there.
ByteMe@lemmy.world 5 months ago
I haven’t even heard of it xd
7U5K3N@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 months ago
I only scroll all for now… Hexbear is the only thing I have blocked. I just got tired of trolly garbage.
Kroxx@lemm.ee 5 months ago
. world is defederated with hexbear iirc
ByteMe@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Oh. Why?
moody@lemmings.world 5 months ago
You could go visit hexbear and you’d find out pretty quickly. It’s definitely not for everyone.
Kroxx@lemm.ee 5 months ago
Other comments hit on this but I’ll add a little more. There is a good bit of trolls/trolling, some extreme views, and authoritarian government praise. Things like that.
Lemm.ee (my instance) is still federated so I see hexbear post/ comments. It’s definitely a more problematic instance imo.
TachyonTele@lemm.ee 5 months ago
It’s an entire instance of teenage trolls
kenkenken@sh.itjust.works 5 months ago
Gab also was big, but its role for the fediverse wasn’t.
cmgvd3lw@discuss.tchncs.de 5 months ago
OFL, what is going on with this hexbear? And is there any reason behind the name?
WalrusDragonOnABike@lemmy.today 5 months ago
And is there any reason behind the name? A bear, but hexagon shaped, is their mascot.
Emmie@lemm.ee 5 months ago
It’s big enough to feel their presence in every corner of the platform
NOT_RICK@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Yeah I can’t say I was bothered when LW defederated. I’ve gotten in way fewer stupid arguments since they did the same with Lemmygrad. IIRC LW didn’t even let hexbear federate in the first place.
Emmie@lemm.ee 5 months ago
I don’t like to make myself blind to the things so to say. I prefer to see everything, every post and comment.
knatschus@discuss.tchncs.de 5 months ago
Sounds like you waste alot of time with people who don’t deserve it
li10@feddit.uk 5 months ago
I would much rather signup to an instance that handles that for me.
As long as the instance is clear about what they defederate from and their reasons, then I’m happy with that. And if I wasn’t, I could choose a different instance.
Blackmist@feddit.uk 5 months ago
I think ideally a Lemmy client could connect to a number of instances, and you could add the more contentious ones yourself.
Some of these places are literally hosting child porn. You don’t want that mirrored to a server that you’re responsible for.
TomSelleck@lemm.ee 5 months ago
Same here. I’ll curate my personal feed but I’ll occasionally scroll everything just to see what random new instance I’ll find, and to keep myself aware of what the current rhetoric is with the various groups.
conditional_soup@lemm.ee 5 months ago
You’re not really using the fediverse until you’ve been told that you’ll get the bullet, too.
Transporter_Room_3@startrek.website 5 months ago
Can you truly say you’ve had the HB experience if you haven’t recieved emoji/sticker/gif spam from people who weren’t alive for 9/11, have never been outside their country, and refuse to listen to opposing views, but know with full certainty that all western countries are 100% full of genociders and colonial rapists who all deserve the glorious death the super benign, extremely peaceful and misunderstood countries of North Korea, China, and Russia who have never once been correctly accused of human rights violations…
And of course, if they point out that your country has dipped into those things in the past, well your entire worldview is shattered and their whataboutism has solved everything and proves you deserve the death they crave for you.
geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml 5 months ago
On the flipside there is the .World experience. Where Julian Assagne is a war criminal. And the destruction of Iraq, Libya and Afghanistan was good because it killed a lot of Muslims and liberated those savage hijab wearing women from being alive.
Emmie@lemm.ee 5 months ago
I am genuinely sad for HB. There are lgbt ppl there, generally dear to me and seeing them enjoy such cesspit lured in by cultish atmosphere, supporting the very forces that can only destroy but not build anything. It is personal.
joyhunter@lemmy.zip 5 months ago
I can see why folk don’t like hexbear as they come off as leftist 4chan, but you don’t need to make things up. They often talk about traveling. I agree with a lot of their content and disagree with some, I’ve been to 10 countries. In the plane to France, an African told me how their country is still enslaved to France. Personally I don’t see the value in the immediate destruction of the west, but with their leaderships ardent support for Nazi Germany, Apartheid, the Climate Crisis and assassination of climate activists, others, and now Zionism, they should lose influence through any means necessary.
OprahsedCreature@lemmy.ml 5 months ago
Hey, aren’t you the one who dropped a diaper load because Hexbear removed your comments justifying supporting candidates who were pro genocide?
hexbear.net/modlog?page=1&actionType=All&userId=2…
conditional_soup@lemm.ee 5 months ago
Yep, that’s me. You could probably find a few more good examples of me stepping in shit on Hexbear, that’s hardly the first.
Schmoo@slrpnk.net 5 months ago
I disagree with those comments, but they seem pretty mild to have been banned. I just don’t see how it’s productive to ban all liberals the moment they try to explain their views. All that does is push people away who could potentially have been a future ally.
SteveFromMySpace@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 months ago
Join an instance that’s defederated from them. I haven’t seen their nonsense in months.
muix@lemmy.sdf.org 5 months ago
You can block instances yourself, I personally don’t like when an instance makes that decision for me.
SorteKanin@feddit.dk 5 months ago
Blocking an instance is just equivalent to blocking all the communities on that instance. You’ll still see the blocked instance’s posts and comments in other instances and (maybe more importantly) the instance will still influence your feed via voting. So if hexbear collectively upvotes or downvotes some post, that will influence your feed. Defederation is the only way to prevent that kind of influence.
SteveFromMySpace@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 months ago
Then block hexbear? Same result.
OprahsedCreature@lemmy.ml 5 months ago
I mean, I don’t know enough about North Korea here but Lenin decriminalized homosexuality in like 1920. Stalin recriminalized it in 1932-33 but for a bit there the Soviet Union was the most LGBT friendly country in the world.
Emmie@lemm.ee 5 months ago
Lemme rest, my palm is all sore
OprahsedCreature@lemmy.ml 5 months ago
So do your googling on this. I’ll wait.
jumjummy@lemmy.world 5 months ago
What is the point of this, uh, argument? Since then it’s illegal to be LGBT in Russia, so you’re admitting that Russia sucks now? Agreed!
OprahsedCreature@lemmy.ml 5 months ago
Russia began to suck hardest when the US succeeded in turning it into a supercharged version of itself. Every bad bit about Russia you don’t like? It’s where the US is headed, thanks to its own imperialism. “Rainbow Capitalism” is as unsustainable as Rainbow Slavery or Rainbow Fascism.
Sootius@lemmy.world 5 months ago
I cannot facepalm hard enough when I see lgbt people (or anyone) who praise western genocidal military alliances either. What’s your point?
Socsa@sh.itjust.works 5 months ago
Western alliances which are the only places in the world with a robust LGBT framework?
“Nooooo you can’t just give people rights because it makes you look good!”
Sootius@lemmy.world 5 months ago
I didn’t realise committing genocide made people look good, I guess.
cows_are_underrated@feddit.org 5 months ago
That’s why I’m glad my instance blocked them.