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The last few posts made here, they've shown up, made the most inane, idiotic, and pointless comments, upvoted each other in a frenzy of circle jerking, and generally made a pest of themselves.

They're a nuisance, and add nothing of value to the Lemmy experience.

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[–] Fizz@lemmy.nz 28 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Every time I read a stupid comment and then check the instance 100% of the time it's hexbear.

So far I've not seen any rule breaking posts.

Edit: I made this comment after only seeing hexbear users in few nz thread but after seeing more and seeing how the partcipate. I think we should defederate. They will never participate in good faith as they are an extremist instance. Majority of the big instances have already defederated with them so its not like we will be singling them out. On the point of "diverse viewpoints", policy so far bans extreme right wing instances and extreme leftwing instances. All the reasonable view points that a hexbear user could provide can be provided by the many leftists across other instances.

[–] Ilovethebomb@lemmy.nz 13 points 1 year ago

Yeah, that's exactly the issue. Nothing of value comes from their instance, but they do follow the rules.

[–] Ilovethebomb@lemmy.nz 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Regarding the edit, what is their instance actually about, what are their leanings? I haven't been to visit, and don't really want to.

[–] Fizz@lemmy.nz 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

They're anti nato communists and some socialists. I took a geez at their "why does everyone hate our instance thread" and it seems that in their words, since they have been on the platform for 3 years they have a strong instance culture. They are used to fighting and battling trolls so when they see something they don't like they swarm on it and argue aggressively.

From my opinion its a political community that focuses on pushing extreme left wing views. They are anti western, anti capitalism and anti racism and bigotry. I laughed because one of the reasons they keep giving for being hated is because "they're always right".

[–] Ilovethebomb@lemmy.nz 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Being anti NATO, I suspect they're also on Russia's side regarding Ukraine? Yeah, fuck em.

[–] Snowpix@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They LOVE Putin and the CCP. They'll dogpile anyone who disagrees.

[–] Ilovethebomb@lemmy.nz 5 points 1 year ago

Euww. Yeah, they can fuck right off.

[–] Snowpix@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago

They're authoritarians. The communist stuff is just an excuse to worship authoritarian regimes like the CCP.

[–] biddy@feddit.nl 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Tankies. They are pro authoritarian communist or socialist regimes like China and USSR, and anti western liberal capitalist democracies like US and NZ.

They got banned from Reddit and moved to an isolated Lemmy instance long before the rest of Lemmy got big, but decided to experiment with federation fairly recently.

[–] Ilovethebomb@lemmy.nz 1 points 1 year ago

The only person in this thread that's not engaging in good faith and trying to cause trouble is you.

So what's with the attitude in your other comment? Clearly these people have no plans to engage in good faith.