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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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[–] scytale@lemm.ee 27 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

We are like Fremen

As in Fremen from Dune? But they were fooled into a religion and belief by a powerful political organization, and then manipulated again by their messiah. I’m not arguing with you, just noticed the comparison with fremen. lol

[–] nohaybanda@hexbear.net 79 points 1 year ago (2 children)

No, we’re like Fremen cause we drink our own piss

[–] Kuori@hexbear.net 55 points 1 year ago (1 children)

they mean we do cool drugs and have sweet orgies and drain outsiders of their precious vital fluids for sustenance comfy

[–] macabrett@hexbear.net 39 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

And we ride really cool worms. Emphasis on really cool.

[–] sharedburdens@hexbear.net 29 points 1 year ago

Riding the lib brainworms, meow-shining getting high off the poop dust (dunking on their dogshit posts) brainworms

[–] Commiejones@hexbear.net 12 points 1 year ago

Almost any analogy can be taken to an extreme where it ceases to make the point it is intoned to illustrate.