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[–] Snowpix@lemmy.ca 74 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (6 children)

I knew from reading the headline that Hexbear's horde of mouthbreathers would show up to brigade and spread their propaganda. Sure enough, here we are

Edit: You guys really are just proving my point lmao

[–] Taako_Tuesday@lemmy.ca 18 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Hexbear users rushing to bombard this comment with image reactions to say they're not brigading

[–] Snowpix@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

You're exactly correct! Lmao

[–] UFODivebomb@programming.dev 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I play "count the fallacies" with the comments. So far I've seen: ad homonim; what-about-ism; strawman ; appeal to popularity ; appeal to authority ; hasty generalization / ecological fallacy

I get bored well before I stop counting

[–] Snowpix@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 years ago

Lol I don't even bother with reading anything they say at all. I just block anyone who's on Hexbear, I must have half the instance blocked. And my experience browsing Lemmy has been so much better for it!

[–] LeateWonceslace@lemm.ee 10 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Who's Hexbear?

[–] Hubi@feddit.de 14 points 2 years ago (3 children)

It's not a who, it's an instance: hexbear.net. It's also full of pro-Russia tankies.

[–] PersnickityPenguin@lemm.ee 6 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Uh… Is there a reason why I’ve never heard of this?

[–] Gsus4@feddit.nl 10 points 2 years ago

They were not federated before. They did around 9 days ago.

[–] Snowpix@lemmy.ca -1 points 2 years ago

They only were recently federated, and got defederated from some large instances like lemmy.world for their explicit intent to brigade other instances and communities to spread their "anti-liberal" nonsense.

[–] FaeDrifter@midwest.social 6 points 2 years ago

Russian troll farms have hit lemmy = lemmy has made it to the social media big leagues now!

[+] maxcorbetti@lemmy.ml -9 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Crying about "tankies" is just calling everything "woke" with extra steps. Not everyone there automatically supports NATO/Ukraine but it's far from what you describe.

[–] Hubi@feddit.de 17 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

There are still significant numbers of people denying the genocide currently happening and actively rooting for the invaders, which is why I pointed it out. There's a reason they have been defederated by so many large instances. This has nothing to do at all with anything "woke" and I don't see why you'd even bring it up.

Edit: I just had a look at their frontpage and the first post there is about how the "western MSM" lied about the counteroffensive and how "Stalin shouldn't have stopped at Berlin". Yeah, alright. lmao

[–] maxcorbetti@lemmy.ml 0 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Republican: "Everything to the left of me is woke."

Republican pretending to be liberal online: "Everything to the left of me is tankie."

At the end of the day it's a word that can mean anything you want, and is only useful as a tactic to divide resistance against right wingers.

[–] Murvel@lemm.ee 8 points 2 years ago

I've been interacting with them recently to see what they are all about and lmao I don't think I've ever had a dumber discussion in my life. Truly they are uniquely stupid.

[–] UFODivebomb@programming.dev 4 points 2 years ago

My cats have learned the wirr motor sound of the feeder means food. So they'll run from whereever in the house at an motor sound. Suddenly like "it's food time right? Right? But the noise means food...." Regardless of any further context.

Same same but different with hexbear.