SeborrheicDermatitis

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⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hexbear federation megathread⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:
It’s more so that stuff just appears on the hexbear.net front page and people comment on it (like this one). I don’t even know what Lemmy really is so I just comment on whatever’s there! There is no organised brigading effort as such, it’s just how Lemmy works combined with the unexpected introduction of an active community changing the pre-existing community balances.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hexbear federation megathread⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:
At the end of the day ‘evil’ is not a particularly valuable analytical framing if we are being proper social scientists (since, of course, “the capitalist becomes capital personified”, e.g., their actual personality traits don’t matter and they needn’t be sociopathic to do horrible things. Though a disproportionate of landlords are horrible people ofc). On a social media site, however, there’s nothing wrong with using emotive language like ‘evil’ and using venting memes like the guillotine pictures and I guess there is a disconnect in how it’s perceived to the ‘materialist’ mode of analysis that does not focus on individual personality traits + does not see the individual as the supreme and singular unit of analysis.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hexbear federation megathread⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:
This is on the front page of chapo.chat/Hexbear.net. Isn’t the whole deal w/ federation that the communities merge their posts and their commenters? I apologise if I am misunderstanding. Personally I just comment on whatever things I think are worth commenting on regardless of what community it’s on as I think my comments never violate any particular rules anyhow. It’s not brigading it’s just people wanting to comment on what’s in front of them and directly referring to them, IMO. I understand how it would feel that way when it has come so suddenly, though. It’s just what happens when an old and active group suddenly joins a bunch of smaller and/or less active ones (or, at least, larger to a small enough extent that the new commenters are still noticeable).