And this is the Hexbear reply thread. Please be very wary of the extremism and bigotry and know that they are largely defederated
Could we maybe keep hexbear drama to !meanwhileongrad@sh.itjust.works ?
It’s becoming hard to follow with threads talking about hexbear posted from one community (!meanwhileongrad@sh.itjust.works ) to another (here)
The self-started purpose of hexbear is to “dunk” on people. That’s not a bug - it’s a feature. We need not be shocked, Shocked I say, SHOCKED when they do what they said that they will.
It would help immensely if a label could be applied, so that people do not wander over there without first being warned. Not that it’s mandatory, but it’s like porn: fine if that’s what you wanted, though a bit surprising if not.
Hexbear doesn’t actually dunk on people, though. I’ve never seen them actually explore outside their safespace.
Hehe, they dunked on me when I first joined Lemmy, and accidentally responded to a comment in ChapoTrapHouse, while browsing on All. Never having heard of it, I had no idea what it was.
I said something to the effect that at least Biden was keeping gas prices down, and they DID NOT LIKE THAT ONE BIT!!! It was weird to keep opening my notifications and continue to get replies for WEEKS and WEEKS after I stopped responding (I forget if I deleted the comment even - normally I never do such, especially if I am wrong b/c it helps to preserve a record for posterity, so at most I would put text in strikethrough format and add an Edit statement).
And that’s on me, for going into their space and not even posting but still commenting in a post. Although… we do not control others only ourselves, and isn’t it a bit on us if we federate ChapoTrapHouse, thereby feeding users across the entire Fediverse this content? Like literally, if an instance offers CSAM, then even though hosted elsewhere we would be the ones in trouble for feeding their data to our users.
Anyway, whether their dunks are successful or not is besides the point - they at least like to talk about people in a negative manner, as they themselves claim is their purpose for existing.
Oh man, sorry you went through that. They try to ‘dunk’ on me quite often, but it always backfires on them, funnily enough. Never had any of them actually confront me. Too scared, I suppose.
Meh, I’m not worried about myself, so much as whether the Fediverse itself will survive. Every single person that I’ve recommended it to irl comes back in our next encounter with how much politically extremist - and violent - rhetoric is used. Chapotraphouse is the least of the Fediverse’s troubles, though it too is one of them.
Overall though they seem connected: not wanting to defederate from either lemmy.ml with its constant calls for guillotines (I mean… not that I don’t understand the reason for such:-) or from hexbear.net, mainstream users are being turned away.
And since like 90% of Fediverse content is made by a couple handfuls of people, I do worry about our long-term sustainability. Oh well.
Yeah, the fediverse will die in a few years but I don’t exclusively blame the tankies for this, it was always designed for them in mind to begin with.
I blame the regular users who, upon hearing about conservatives, immediately threw a fit and defederated all conservative instances before they could even get going. I think most Americans are to blame, really, their social divide is too overbearing and not at all willing to mingle with those of opposing political ideology.
The best solution I can think of is a federated chatroom, IRC-type deal. Not entirely sure on the logistics of how such a thing would even be moderated, but yeah, too much politics, not enough porn.
I’m personally willing to put in some effort to grow more content across the fediverse, branch out in topics. Maybe a general/random community will do well, where anything goes, but it’ll need some dedicated members to get a foundation. Up to you, I suppose.