TL;DR: I called out a defederation evader from hexbear.

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[–] 7 points 8 months ago (4 children)

Db0 is federated with Hexbear? The owner of Blahaj tried to stay federated with them due to the large trans community there but eventually had to put it to a vote and defederated because their users were harassing and brigading Blahaj users on our own instance for not being "socialist" enough. Then Hexbear played the victim card after the fact and claimed that it was Blahaj users who were harassing their trans community.

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  • [+] 2 points 8 months ago (1 child)
  • You can still find the posts on the whole saga on Blahaj somewhere, but my recollection is that Blahaj users got harassed, Ada said something to the admins on Hexbear to try to resolve the issue, they either refused to do anything or went full no contact, and then when Blahaj voted to defederate, they defederated first before Blahaj could and then claimed that Blahaj users were transphobic towards their users and that Ada or any of the other admins never contacted them, etc.

    Basically went "You can't block me if I block you first!" and then played the victim/transphobia card...against the instance largely created for trans people, by trans people.

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  • [–] 2 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    I haven't witnessed any direct brigading, but I can always tell when a post or comment is from them. I like seeing radically different ideas and opinions on occasion, but it would be a lot less irritating if they would drop the "it's not my job to educate you" stance. The majority of responses to elaboration are just name calling. Honestly, that whole aspect seems pretty antithetic to communism.

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  • [–] 2 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    Anytime I've seen anything from there, it's always been abrasive at best and outright aggressive or hostile at worst. I've started likening it to the leftist 4chan of Lemmy.

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  • [–] 5 points 8 months ago

    Sometimes I wonder if they're an ancap psyop to make leftists as a whole look bad.

    They are not rational people engaging in good-faith discussions. They even use some of the same lingo as alt-right cesspools ("shitlib," "glowie," etc.)

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