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These bigoted, ignorant scum will never listen to anything. They are politically illiterate infants with an allergic reaction to reading.

They have ruined a safe space cultivated and cared for, they have turned this place into a new reddit.

I had a dude in my private messages going on about how I was both mutilating myself and other children. Many more people on hexbear have had similar experiences, with these worthless ignorant scum popping in to deliver the political equivalent of a giant shit.

As your friends, comrades, and people you say you defend get slurred at, dehumanized, and harassed please ask yourself:

Is it worth it?

I have the answer, I know you know it as well:

No its not

I used to think otherwise

I was a fool

its not worth a few laughs

even if you dunk all you want, that doesn't take away the knife those people put in our backs.

These bigots, fascists, and NATO liberals are as worthless offline as they are here, why should we give them any attention. They are worth less than the dirt beneath our fingernails. Why should we poison ourselves with their influence? We don't make any room for them offline, why should we not online?

And really

How many essays have your written?

How many sources have you combed through?

How many times have you explained the most basic facts of reality?

How many attempts at good faith?

Only for them to dismiss it in their stupidity. They don't read it, they just crumble and divert back to the programming these little shits trust in more than God.

For every time there is a good faith user, there are a dozen scumbag fascists. And most of the time, the "good faith one" just reverts back to their old shit.

Do you really think losing any member of the hexbear or lemmygrad community, longtime members or not, is worth a few good dunks?

I don't believe a small chance of gaining a new user is worth alienating an entire section of the community. The vast majority of those idiots are lost causes. If they are interested, the can just make an account and ask in good faith.

Is posting a meme to "own the liberals" worth your comrades getting more trauma from bigots harassing them?

No its not.

you've had your laugh, but it should end

Ban them all, SJW, lemm.ee, lemmy, the programmer nazi edglords. Keep Lemmygrad.

Defederate from those communities. We shouldn't sacrifice our own for more clicks. For having to subject ourselves to the opinions of people thoroughly brainwashed? We aren't reddit. We came here to get away from that. I'm sick of this. We are sick of this.

End it now

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[–] Acute_Engles@hexbear.net 58 points 1 year ago (4 children)

I'm glad some of y'all are having fun but I like the website a lot less since federation

[–] Catradora_Stalinism@hexbear.net 43 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

The memers can make seperate lemmygrad accounts if they want to interact with liberals. I want to go back to intelligent hexbear conversations, and dumb hexbear ones that aren't about the right to existence of minorities.

[–] Acute_Engles@hexbear.net 24 points 1 year ago
[–] Clippy@hexbear.net 16 points 1 year ago

I joined with the reddit exodus on lemmygrad.ml but made a hexbear for the well constructed dunks but I would also be interested in seeing active well thought out local conversations

[–] invalidusernamelol@hexbear.net 26 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The only positive is the influx of good users we've gotten over the past month. I think going dark again is a good idea since now we're the Lemmy Boogeyman and people know we exist.

If we keep new accounts application based for a while to keep trolls out, I think we can still turn this into a net positive.

Staying federated with some instances (grad) is good, but federating so aggressively is rough because while we're still the largest instance, we can't handle attacks from 50 fronts.

[–] Acute_Engles@hexbear.net 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm not going to ever claim to speak for any amount of the userbase but good users found this site just fine before. I'll take the increased activity if the fediverse discussions and arguments and brigades die down

[–] invalidusernamelol@hexbear.net 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Oh totally, I just meant that since the federation I've seen a massive influx of people who immediately left their instances for here. Mostly trans folk who like our community.

That's the part that was worth it

[–] Acute_Engles@hexbear.net 2 points 1 year ago

I'm glad people have found a safe place, too. My personal tastes are not nearly as important as that

[–] sooper_dooper_roofer@hexbear.net 24 points 1 year ago (1 children)

same. If I wanted to interact with dummies I'd go to any other website

[–] Acute_Engles@hexbear.net 12 points 1 year ago

Which is why i literally only use this website for online social interactions

[–] star_wraith@hexbear.net 20 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah, me too. I mean, I probably have a bigger issue with the new algorithm but I’m not really seeing any positives with federation.

[–] Acute_Engles@hexbear.net 9 points 1 year ago

I also dislike the sort but i can handle having to fiddle with that