spiderplant

At least own it dude

You are an outsider to this instance and the info you chose to share clearly tries to paint hexbears in a bad light. You gave no counter to that narrative such as a screen shot of good discussion that is happening in this post.

I've believe you should be able to post on our instance and will not call to defederate from your instance because I disagree with you. I also don't expect everyone to post balanced arguments because I don't more often than not. I will however call people out for hypocrisy.

The narrative is never as black and white as either US or Russian sources would have you believe.

The Ukraine is publicly against any peace talks and the US arms industry is making bank off the war so the US puts very little pressure on the Ukraine to sue for peace.

Russia claims that the US blocked early peace talks. Not sure if Russia would have gone to them in good faith but I guess we'll never know.

Any articles dehumanising Russians such as calling them orcs(this was everywhere) helps justify the continuation of the war. Any articles not calling for an immediate end to the war on humanitarian grounds should be considered propaganda for either side.

I'd argue MSM is not balanced either in the opposite direction and shits on Russia enough that bexbears don't need to join in. Countering the current narrative on anti war grounds or being anti US/NATO can be easily misunderstood as being pro Russia.

Obviously I'm not saying pro Russia accounts don't exist on hexbear but I don't think its as big a thing as you think.

On the trans thing, yeah it would be nice if they could exist everywhere without issues but I've seen plenty of transphobia coming from different instances including our own. Having a mod team that understands their struggle and protects them is worth a lot.

The non ideological crown doesn't exist. Being middle of the road centrist is ideological. Political apathy and voter abstention is ideological. I don't want to create an echo chamber here by banning leftist spaces and allow liberal and right wing views to go unchallenged.

You coming to this instance and trying to influence our opinion is no different than what you are complaining about.

Everyone has their biases and agendas when writing posts or comments and to be expected to be protected from views that don't match you own is not really compatible with the federated model.

50% of their mod team is trans and they are one of the few instances with pronouns built in to it. They have a good argument that of the biggest instances they are the most trans friendly. Can't speak for smaller instances or individual communities though.

I've mostly seen anti war takes from them which IMO is much better than all the pro war news and views in the lib instances. Most leftists are anti Russia since its a capitilaist, imerialist, oligarchal shit hole, but they also are anti US and NATO for similar reasons.

If I wanted to be in a echo chamber I wouldn't be on Lemmy

(edit) downviting if you disagree is a terrible reddit holdover, be more like hexbearians and start a discussion

Bit weird you commenting on this post and accusing others of brigading.

Brigading doesn't exist on Lemmy unless there is a centralised effort to harass a community or individual.

• viewing a post in your feed from a different instance is not brigading
• commenting on a post from another instance is not brigading
• linking to a post from another instances is not brigading

As you found this post in your feed so to will others. To expect one of the biggest instances to not contribute more is silly especially when they have a culture of commenting over votes.

Also don't conflate hexbears as a whole with fashists and Tankies, hexbear is a broad left instance and that includes including anarchists, libertarians, socialists, and communists.

On the propaganda point, countering the lack of honest reporting and information on a lot of topics that benefits those in power and the status-quo is perfectly fine. A lot of MSM can be considered pro-capatilist propaganda.