The wokes are ruining my Lemmy!

Regardless of whether you're politically left or right, I feel like the hexbear crowd is just tremendously unfriendly. Even when I agree with them, I usually feel bad reading what they have to say. Being unwelcoming is not a good strategy for proliferating one's politics.

Am I taking crazy pills? Last I heard hexbear doesn't even exist anymore.

Are yall so laser focused on feudposting you missed that piece of news?

hexbear

the wokes

Okay now that's hilarious

This whole instance-tribalism seems very self-defeating to me. Why be decentralised if everyone ends up so boxed off that there are just a handful of isolated instance-clusters talking amongst themselves? It's like how email (SMTP) is decentralised but the mega-hosts act like a cabal, gatekeeping so strongly (and virtually doing blocklist-by-default for unrecognised servers - even of good standing) ultimately capturing the user-base by undermining the decentralisation. Luckily with DKIM/SPF/DMARC/ARC/etc and stronger anti-trust regulations email seems to be slowly climbing back out of that hole. Unfortunately with all the banal tribalism it feels like much of the new Activitypub based tech users are willfully climbing into that same hole, without even being corralled there by mega-hosts.

Tankies shit my pants.

You're right, we should focus on Lemmy.ml instead.

Lol, the pro China, pro putin folks who let pedo-Don win the election are woke?

Hexbear is also just straight up dead rn, can't see their shit til they secure a new domain

This thread brought out a ton of tone police lol

Wait, what do you mean .World isn't Federated???

I got permabanned from Hexbear for simply denouncing ageism. Apparently not falling for the divisive labels they stick on every generation so they can blame each other is not tolerated.

That's why the folks really worried about tankies make alt accounts to go hunting for bad takes to share with the unfederated.

Aren't world the wokes/libs/whatever is the current pejorative

Yeah, I have "All" filter turned on and I don't see any Hexbear posts. Now that I think about maybe that those who complain about Hexbear intentionally go there?

In my view, horseshoe theory is pretty accurate

For example, people in the middle recognise that Ukraine was the victim of an invasion, but people on the far-right and far-left both insist that Russia is the real victim for some reason

Maybe it's because both the far-right and far-left envy the state power that Putin has?