The mods of all the major communities there remove comments criticism Hexbear and usually follow it up with a ban. It's absolutely clear what is happening and it shouldn't be allowed to continue.

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[–] Badeendje@lemmy.world 99 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (39 children)

Asking for proof of what is an open secret on lemmy seems disingenuous.

I think that instances like hexbear, lemmygrad, and lemmy.ml are very bad advocates for Lemmy and will most likely end up damaging it more than anything else, keeping the "normies" out.

They argue in Bad faith, say the most radical stuff they can think of, and purge anything bad said about totalitarian regimes they idolize. China, Russia, Iran, all considered victims of the evil west..

Uyghur camps > not happening
Tiannamen square > Just some peaceful protests
invasion of Ukraine > NATO forced Russia to do it

[–] Lemminary@lemmy.world 41 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (3 children)

Hexbear loves to dogpile as well. I've seen a couple of raiding threads linking to other threads in Lemmy.ml making fun of whoever. But in reality they're just directing people over there to shit on someone. At least, that's what I saw last year, so I'm very distrusting of them.

That and the Lemmy.ml AMA thread where one admin was all buddy buddy with Hexabear users during their federation.

[–] fuckingkangaroos@lemm.ee 5 points 8 months ago (2 children)

I abandoned an old account because Hexbear bullies followed me around and downvoted everything. Come to think of it, I haven't posted a single thing since then, and I had a bunch of posts with hundreds of votes.

[–] Sootius@lemmy.world 4 points 8 months ago (1 children)

This literally cannot be true, because hexbear accounts cannot downvote.

[–] fuckingkangaroos@lemm.ee 3 points 8 months ago

If so maybe it was lemmy.ml, I get them confused sometimes

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