• daftantimony@lemm.eeOP
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    It’s an affectionate nickname for Hexbear. You might know that they behave like a bunch of 4channers, throwing and smearing their poop around; and Hexagon=>6 sides (must spell it out clearly, else the smart kids won’t understand)… both combined make 6chan.

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      1 year ago

      can anyone explain why I keep seeing their garbage after attempting to block everything hexbear related? I don’t even mind the occasional tankie that much, but this lot is fucking bonkers.

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        1 year ago

        Change your instance, i’m on lemmy.world which has defederated hexbear and I see no tankie posts.

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          had issues with lemmy.world for a while and went to lemmy.ee, will give that a try I suppose.

          I just can’t fathom why I can’t eliminate .hex from my feed lol

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            1 year ago

            As a stopgap measure you can use the Connect app, which has instance blocking.

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        Lemmy and federation is very buggy. I’m from an instance which hexbear defederated from, but I sometimes still see posts from hexbear when browsing all+new. It seems like it doesn’t always get around to checking defederation when fetching new threads.

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        I never said anything about political inclinations, it’s the trollish and toxic behaviors that are comparable. You even quote me saying “behave”. Don’t be *a Hexbear please…

        *Thanks for pointing out the typo, dear 6channers, much appreciated :)

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        Of most extremists, Tankies are actually quite active in their reading material… Unfortunately, they don’t read to learn opposing views or even what historically occurred, but instead to bolster themselves in an attempt to appear smarter-than-thou, ‘Look at how many books I’ve read!’ – As if that means anything.

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          Isn’t that like saying not all cops are bad, the bad cops are just the ones you always hear about. (In the US)

          For sure, pretty much every individual cop I’ve interacted with has been very reasonable. Doesn’t mean the policing system isn’t rotten to the core when it’s protecting the bad cops.

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          Most tankies are not reasonable, no. A few of them have legitimately put forth effort in engaging in this community, but when faced with the reality of Stalin specifically sending queers to gulags, they broke and reverted to their trollish behaviour, later returning to hexbear about their worries so their fellow tankies can feed them a false narrative about gays in gulags.

          They are not reasonable, or else they would’ve already tried engaging here–We have threads dedicated as semi-safespaces for them.