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hexbear was unfederated for three years, are you saying they just sat around all that time pretending to be queer communists to each other with no audience? Would thousands of people really check in to a website daily or weekly for years just to do that?
Sure. Fellowship is an important part of maintaining a weird cult-like ideological stance.
Also we can't ignore the fact that there's some national interest juice behind this. China being a fascist country that's claiming to be communist to maintain legitimacy (and maintain power for the elites in that country) means there's significant resources that can be used to maintain the narrative that fascism branded as socialism is a good thing.
And dumb people love the idea that they're the small group that is getting things right, it's just the rest of the world that's wrong. See flat earthers, qanon, etc. They get in their little community where (unlike the rest of the world) no one tells them they're an idiot when they say their stupid bullshit. All they have to do is conform to the overall narrative the community is centered around and they don't need to do any critical thinking, and gain a sense of acceptance despite being an idiot.
imagine how awful it would be to spend hours in a long back and forth with someone like this trying to convince them that you have a nuanced perspective and justifications for it and you are not a stupid, monstrous, cult-like fanatic, all while they do not listen to you because they already know you are those things and therefore nothing you say is worth considering
Kind of what political discourse is on social media. Saying things to appease with the network your account is in so you can continue to accepted by them. Most prominent social media "personalities" don't care about the issues, but only want to appear to care about the issues.
I'd much prefer to talk to someone that honestly disagrees with me rather than someone who's disagreement is performative in order to please their friend network. It's possible (though maybe still unlikely) to convince someone who is honest about their views. Someone that's performative will continue to disagree because you aren't the one they're really talking to. It's the "friend" network they're always speaking to regardless of who's comment they're placing theirs under.
Such is social media.
it's not performative when hexbear disagrees with you, that's just you assuming things again.