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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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[–] RoomAndBored@hexbear.net 27 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Welcome! I love your Super Monkey Ball pfp :) we have one site tag line (a little funny sentence or paragraph at the top of page which changes every time you load) and one of them is shit talking SMB so I hope you don't get it and get turned off.

[–] bdonvr@thelemmy.club 20 points 1 year ago (1 children)

and one of them is shit talking SMB so I hope you don't get it and get turned off.

Oh did I mention I'm also the admin of this instance? DEFED

[–] RoomAndBored@hexbear.net 22 points 1 year ago

I have done my home instance a great dishonour kitty-cri-texas