Sorry (🍁) we did this without making a post, but after receiving several complaints we defederated from hexbear.net yesterday.

Here’s a few quick examples of poor conduct by hexbear users:

They warned their users to behave themselves, but that didn’t work: https://hexbear.net/post/280770?scrollToComments=false

Please read and respect the rules of the community instance in which you are posting/commenting. Please try to keep the dirtbag lib-dunking to hexbear itself. Do not follow the Chapo Rules of Posting, instead try to engage utilizing informed rhetoric with sources to dismantle western propaganda. Posting the western atrocity propaganda and pig poop balls is hilarious but will pretty quickly get you banned and if enough of us do it defederated. Realize that you are a representative of the hexbear instance when you post on other instances.

  • @[email protected]English
    12•2 years ago

    This seems like it could have been solved at the instance level by banning some emojis… So I guess I’m confused?

    I still don’t agree with censoring political views that we disagree with. It’s a slippery slope, especially when these are REAL people that DO exist. They deserve to have their voice heard, even if it’s so they can be shit on.

    Edit: is there no way to block individual users without defederation? It sounds like taking the nuclear option against a few bad actors. We should want to have our worldview challenged since that’s a core component of democracy.

    • @[email protected]English
      40•2 years ago

      views that we disagree with

      a few bad actors

      Please stop with all those disingenous takes. OP makes it quite clear that it was not based on differences in viewpoint but toxic and trolling behaviour. And it is not “a few bad actors” from that instance behaving in such a way, it is everyone, since that is their publicly stated main purpose for existing.

        • Jerkface (any/all)English
          17•2 years ago

          Blatant indifference to their own community policies is an excellent reason to defederate.

          • @[email protected]English
            1•2 years ago

            And everyone on lemmy.ca follows community guidelines? Let’s be realistic. It’s a few bad actors (that we’ve already isolated!), just ban them.

        • MapleEngineerEnglish
          22•2 years ago

          Please read and respect the rules of the community instance in which you are posting/commenting. Please try to keep the dirtbag lib-dunking to hexbear itself. Do not follow the Chapo Rules of Posting, instead try to engage utilizing informed rhetoric with sources to dismantle western propaganda. Posting the western atrocity propaganda and pig poop balls is hilarious but will pretty quickly get you banned and if enough of us do it defederated. Realize that you are a representative of the hexbear instance when you post on other instances.

          “Come on guys. [Wink] [Wink] Cool it or we’re going to get defederated. [Wink] [Wink]”

    • MapleEngineerEnglish
      22•2 years ago

      The great thing about the fediverse is that you can vote with your feet. If you’re really dedicated to their nonsense you can create an account there and read and participate as much as you like. The reason no one is leaving to go there is that we all know that they produce nothing of any value.

    • amio
      21•2 years ago

      I don’t think massive trolling that happens to use an emoji would be solved by blocking that specific emoji.

    • Avid AmoebaEnglish
      12•2 years ago

      It’s not about political views. There are plenty of comrades around here who just don’t ask for killing of fellow Canadians or parrot obvious Russian propaganda. I have quite enjoyed some thought provoking or educational comments from Hexbears but we have to pay for those with enduring the rest of the low effort vomit.