I’ve seen several references to some sort of rift between the users of these instances today. What’s happening?
Actual communists here are on Threadiverse seem quite emotionally capable and are among the more pleasant to chat with. Examples there include slrpnk.net. I used to also say db0 though there always seems pushback nowadays whenever I include it, but I can’t get anyone to give me a solid answer as to why besides unsubstantiated accusations that even on their face looks like pure BS to me. So I guess I’ll keep saying it, just noting that it is a controversial point.:-)
Hexbears on the other hand are trolls, pure and simple, with zero regard for anything other than “the dunk” process of pwning someone - or rather, appearing to, from their own extremely childish POV.
Lemmy.ml and lemmygrad.ml then are the leftist MAGAs, believing in alternative facts rather than living in reality. e.g. most claim that they would move to the likes of North Korea in a heartbeat, except, you know… I guess they took an arrow to the knee or some such. 🤪
I am so glad that I can block people from an entire instance. If I could, I would make an exception to the devs Nutomic and Dessalines out of respect for having offered the Lemmy sourcecode as FOSS, but other than that, I have not missed a single interaction with anyone on Lemmy.ml since I have done so, every time I’ve checked to see what I might be missing. They are the most batshit insane comments across the entirety of the Threadiverse, after Hexbear obviously.
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They only think that because they deserve to get dunked on. We didn’t have any federation for years and years, and so couldn’t really do any dunking. Currently we have very minimal federation, and so can’t do all that much dunking. So really, dunking is a very small amount of our culture, and most of our criticism of people is against things not on lemmmy, about people that will likely never see that criticism, which isn’t really dunking, and definitely isn’t trolling.
They are viewing it through the myopic lens of their own self-actualization. They get dunked on, they get trolled, so they think Hexbear is all about trolling and dunking. They don’t actually engage with us, so they don’t see that we have a massive chunk of people focused almost exclusively on news. We are probably 1/3 news posting and analysis site, with no trolling at all. For the rest of our posting, the vast majority of it is still internal, and we generally don’t troll each other. So badposting, the trans mega, the daily mega, it all counters their narrative. We also have a book club (two sorta, lol), and a big movie club.
We dunk in Slop, and troll in other instances (generally counter-trolling, often we don’t troll first). Slop is tiny compared to News and the rest of our site. Hexbear could stop dunking and trolling completely, and the vast majority of Hexbears would barely notice the difference.
If anyone actually wants to understand Hexbear, they should lurk Hexbear for a good long while. They would see we aren’t trolls, we barely care about the rest of Lemmy, we care about communism.
I do have to admit that’s fun to watch clueless libs wandering in here having shyte takes and then getting dunked on, though.
But ofc they fire the first shot.