It's an affectionate nickname for Hexbear. You might know that they behave like a bunch of 4channers, throwing and smearing their poop around; and Hexagon=>6 sides (must spell it out clearly, else the smart kids won't understand)... both combined make 6chan.
can anyone explain why I keep seeing their garbage after attempting to block everything hexbear related? I don't even mind the occasional tankie that much, but this lot is fucking bonkers.
Lemmy and federation is very buggy. I'm from an instance which hexbear defederated from, but I sometimes still see posts from hexbear when browsing all+new. It seems like it doesn't always get around to checking defederation when fetching new threads.
4chan isn't tankies and 4chan isn't just /pol/ there are plenty of boards on there that have no equivalent anywhere including reddit or lemmy like /lit/. I bet people on hexbear haven't even read a book in the last decade.
I never said anything about political inclinations, it's the trollish and toxic behaviors that are comparable. You even quote me saying "behave". Don't be *a Hexbear please...
*Thanks for pointing out the typo, dear 6channers, much appreciated :)
True, the majority of 4chan users definitely seem to lean right, at the very least in a trolling manner, so the comparison isn't very apt. I honestly just thought 6chan was another chan at first. I know 8chan was a thing.
Hexbear can be annoying, but the a lot of them are reasonable, it's just that the obnoxious ones always seem to be the loudest.
Isn't that like saying not all cops are bad, the bad cops are just the ones you always hear about. (In the US)
For sure, pretty much every individual cop I've interacted with has been very reasonable. Doesn't mean the policing system isn't rotten to the core when it's protecting the bad cops.