Memes

People who think being a jackass is a form of activism. That's all you really need to know.

Weirdly intense and antagonistic internet communists.

Like, picture that guy you avoided conversations with when you were 19.

A social network that was formed as a fork of lemmy, before lemmy had really entered the fediverse (tho they were planning to). Both Lemmy and Hexbear had communists among their founders, but the Hexbear devs found it more... Central to their objectives. When Lemmy federated, Hexbear didn't. It planned to initially, but ended up being pretty satisfied of being a small, yet centralized social network, basically a communist Reddit. But the idea of joining the Fediverse appeared tempting once again with the boom that happened on Mastodon when the muskrat ate the bird, and to a greater extent when Reddit changed their API policy and lost a lot of the user's trust, causing many redditors to move to Lemmy.

Hexbear devs then worked to essentially make it a Lemmy instance, but there were always disagreements about who to federate with. They first federated with Lemmygrad and Lemmy .ml. Lemmy .world quickly blocked them. They temporarily federated with sh .itjust .works, but this wasn't well received on either side, so this was soon undone.

Ideology wise, pretty much everyone on Hexbear is some kind of communist. However, altho the "tankie", pro-russia type is often seen, it's not that homogeneous (there are even anarchist channels over there), arguably less than lemmygrad.

Ever wanted to be talked down to by a 14 year old alt-right sociopath who pretends to support lgbt so they can stealthily insult liberals and blame western whites for how China is?

Edit; downvote more, at the end of the day you're still a hexbear 🤢

A lemmy instance full of trolls and people celebrating chinese and russian fascism in the name of socialism

Its a 6 sided bear, the peak of the polygonal phylogeny.

Monomouse

Duodugong

Traye-aye

Quadferret

Pentacoyote

Hexbear

Heptaherpeton - this is the furthest we've discovered in the polygonal phylogeny but research indicates the likely existence of an octorca as well

I've read all the comments here and still don't have a clue what a hexbear is

my problem with this thread; u can't tell who is actually communist and authoritarian, and who is just authoritarian

I don't really care about the hexbears either way, the ones I've seen haven't been too bad though I've heard there are some really bad ones

What bothers me more is how quick mods seem to be to shut down any discussion about them whatsoever

Went on the Lemmy matrix to ask about them one time and I just got one guy flooding the chat with "you should observe for yourself and form your own opinions"

A large part of it is a fanbase of Chapo Trap House which has a particular brand of humor that is rampant with esoteric inside jokes that are vulgar as a point, let alone to the extreme.

That humor, especially without that frame of reference, usually offends your average internet denizen.

Edge lords who couldn't handle someone telling them they were wrong, so they had big sook and defedederated after a day.

Ay man if your client lets you block entire instances maybe consider blocking this one