PugJesusThis goes out to my homies on .ml instances!
TWeaKIt’s reassuring that most people have forgotten about hexbear.
What happened to them anyway?
They defederated from everyone because people were being mean to them (after they brigaded numerous threads, were horrifically caustic and annoying, and posted a pig shitting on its own balls everywhere).
Given that “the dunk tank” is still one of their bigger subs, id say theyre still brigading.
They absolutely do, but they come in with .world and .ml alts now.
Yup! Thats exactly how it goes. Then they argue with shifting goalposts or gish gallop you into the dregs of a thread before they finally catch u misspeaking or not addressing one of their shifted goalposts and go, “ha! Look how full of shit u are!” Theyre incredibly toxic as they do it, and get mad if u preach any amount of unity on the left.
oatscoopBack when blahaj.zone defederated from hexbear the tankies started in about how “transphobic” blahaj’s mods/admin are. I pointed out how absurd this argument was given they’re actual trans people. This upset some moron and they posted me to the c/dunktank.
Instance blocking wasn’t a thing then: but blocking everyone that commented in that thread and pretending to be a land lord so they’d ban be was.
Yup, sounds about right. And then they circlejerk over how righteous they are 🙄
.world defederated with hexbear preemptively, but i’m sure hexbear would have defederated with .world pretty quickly anyway.
But i shouldn’t speculate, and you shouldn’t lie.
Preemptively? It should’ve happened even sooner. They should lose .ml also.
Instance blocking was implemented
bdonvrHexbear still federates just a lot of the big ones cut them off (or vice versa)
Your instance still federates
Isn’t lemm.ee still federated with hexbear? I used to have an account over there and fled to .world when the admin refused to stop apologizing for their God awful behavior.
We are but I just use a Lemmy viewer that can block entire instances, problem solved.
You don’t need a lemmy viewer or app anymore, lemmy itself lets you block instances entirely now.
Even better!
If they’re blocked form your feed, it doesn’t really matter.
Yes lemm.ee is still federated with hexbear, which is frankly fine by me (at least ever since blocking instances was introduced).
randintYes, they are. In fact I made a multiple-page-long post (on my old lemm.ee account) to the lemm.ee meta community asking to defederate from hexbear.net.
Cowbee [he/they]Isn’t the point of Lemm.ee to be very light on the block list, so users can create their own experience? Other than CSAM, I think the point was that users would be able to do what they want.
Yes, that is what they’re aiming for.
*Blocked
BlackmistThink a lot of big places defeated with lemmygrad and hexbear. .ml slipped under the radar, so you have to block it manually.
Nah lemmy.ml didn’t slip under the radar, it’s intentionally still federated with because it’s the main instance of the core lemmy developers. Said developers also own and operate lemmygrad, but lemmy.ml is meant to be neutral ground.
lemmy.ml never really used to be that bad, either. It was only after the mass defederation of hexbear that users from there started making alt accounts in other instances, lemmy.ml being one of the main ones and, unfortunatley, lemm.ee getting its share also. lemmy.ml is still ostensibly neutral ground, however now it has a pack of refugee users skewing how its perceived.
Yeah, I block all three.
i left .ml because i kept getting banned when arguing with tankies
I think it was primarily /c/worldnews over there that has that issue, what really doesn’t help is they use the same font and colour as the same community from lemmy.world.
Nah man, I’ve been banned twice now simply for mentioning that time Russia shot down a civilian airliner over Ukraine. .ml is very fucking far from neutral.
If it is, they’ve sure been awfully quiet for a long time…
Nah ml isn’t neutral. I was banned for saying NATO is a defence alliance.
explodicleWhat’s wrong with shitjustworks? I just moved my account there because they seemed nice IMHO.
I think a lot of trolls set up accounts there.
Nothing. It’s a good stable spot. Stays updated. It has the best instance name too.
YeetPicsYou have the block it manually for now.
I give it a week before some dolt there calls for violence and it gets axed from the zeitgeist like the rest of the auth-right drivel.
It’s the same as that shit I took last week. The memory isn’t worth the paper that wiped it away.