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Has anyone else noticed how prevalent Hexbear posters have suddenly become? Maybe sometime last week I noticed nearly every political post had at least one long thread of Hexbear users that do nothing but repeat CCP talking points while waving anyway anything even remotely reliable as Western propaganda. That or getting all excited about trolled libs. The way they tell it, you'd think everything from DW, to Fox, to Propublica, to straight up AP News articles, are all written by the same people.

Not to mention, their info on the Fediverse observer is either straight up wrong or there's some serious botting going on. According to that, the instance is less than a month old, yet somehow they already have one of the largest, most active userbases, along with far and away the most comments of any instance.

Seems to me like Lemmygrad on steroids. Considering we defederated from them, seems like a no-brainer to block Hexbear as well.

So glad this thread could become such a perfect microcosm of why we need to defederate.

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[–] Dirt_Owl@hexbear.net 85 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm explaining, not arguing.

Bots are cheap, and Lemmy is growing. It would be foolish for them not to get in on this early.

All I can say is I'm not a bot. What you want to believe is up to you.

[–] DaSaw@midwest.social -4 points 1 year ago (6 children)

I'm not saying you are a bot, merely that your argument is weak.

[–] silent_water@hexbear.net 104 points 1 year ago

will the debate pervertry never cease

[–] Dirt_Owl@hexbear.net 103 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

What argument? All I've done is politely explain who we are

Jesus Christ libs really think everything is an argument to sell them something. Lmao absolute consumer brain. What capitalism does to a motherfucker. data-laughing

She did a strawman, she did a no true Scotsman, she did an ad hominem

[–] AntiOutsideAktion@hexbear.net 26 points 1 year ago

Purge yourself of this brain rot