As someone who has gotten many, many, many rude comments from hexbears, I felt the need to share my experience. (Some of the comments from hexbears were polite though.) These comments had me brooding over them all day long for a couple of days. (I have since then moved on.) I listed the links to the rude comments below, but I think I should make it clear that while I used to support the idea of defederating from them, I have changed my stance since I heard about the upcoming changes to Lemmy allowing users to block instances. I am no longer in favor of defederating from hexbear.net. People should be able to decide this for themselves, but it is too much effort to switch instances to decide which instances you don’t want to see.
Please do also note that I chose to leave out the polite comments in the list below. If you don’t want to click on every link, just check out the first one and the last one.
(roughly in chronological order)
(very long list, click to expand)
The majority of the comments below are from this post. Observe the amount of self-important emojis from hexbears. Also observe how there are more than 1000 comments and that how downvoted the pro-China comments from lemmy.world users are compared to the ones from hexbears.
https://lemm.ee/comment/2072476 (said something about my "paranoid conspiracy theories in response to my comment “I know right! How come there are so, so many people defending China here? I thought they were the minority. Ugh. When I was back on Reddit comments like those would always be downvoted to hell.” (a few layers up the thread) I do admit that my comment was a bit arrogant though.)
https://lemm.ee/comment/2072476 (saying that I brought the stormfront (reddit) with me when I expressed my concerns about the number of pro-china comments)
https://lemm.ee/comment/2071603 (horrible, horrible spelling mistakes, randomly capitalized words, and misuse of punctuation marks. the comment did not make much sense as a whole either.)
https://lemm.ee/comment/2072444 (mocked me for calling another hexbear out for calling someone a “paranoid weirdo.” I just commented that this behavior is “plain rude and disrespectful.”)
https://lemm.ee/comment/2097415 (if you decide to click this link, please don’t actually wait for the countdown. It is just the same old disturbing pig emoji. honestly, f*ck this pig emoji.)
https://lemm.ee/comment/2107858 (I guess now I’m a “dopey politically uneducated liberals who think that viewing MSNBC+breadtube a few times makes them experts on a particular subject”)
https://lemm.ee/post/3837993 (Seriously? A post of a screenshot of my comment with the second most upvoted comment outright admitting that what they are doing is “communists bullying liberals”? BTW I now believe that the more than 10 upvotes each of their comments get are actually legitimate. I should not have called their upvote counts “sketchy.” Sorry.)
There are so many people who believe that the ideology suppressed by the government is always bad. While this is sometimes the case, this is definitely not the case for authoritarianism. (Edit: what I meant was that the ideology suppressed by the government is authoritarianism, which many hexbears seem to support)
Edit 2: Before this is inevitably pointed out, I should admit that some of my comments were rude as well. I apologize for those comments.
As someone who has gotten many, many, many rude comments from hexbears, I felt the need to share my experience. (Some of the comments from hexbears were polite though.) These comments had me brooding over them all day long for a couple of days. (I have since then moved on.) I listed the links to the rude comments below, but I think I should make it clear that while I used to support the idea of defederating from them, I have changed my stance since I heard about the upcoming changes to Lemmy allowing users to block instances. I am no longer in favor of defederating from hexbear.net. People should be able to decide this for themselves, but it is too much effort to switch instances to decide which instances you don’t want to see.
Please do also note that I chose to leave out the polite comments in the list below. If you don’t want to click on every link, just check out the first one and the last one.
(roughly in chronological order)
(very long list, click to expand)
There are so many people who believe that the ideology suppressed by the government is always bad. While this is sometimes the case, this is definitely not the case for authoritarianism. (Edit: what I meant was that the ideology suppressed by the government is authoritarianism, which many hexbears seem to support)
Edit 2: Before this is inevitably pointed out, I should admit that some of my comments were rude as well. I apologize for those comments.