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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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[–] Nagarjuna@hexbear.net 72 points 1 year ago (2 children)

We were a lifeboat for /r/chapotraphouse since it's been banned. We were running a proprietary version of lemmy for most of that time and only joined the main fork a month ago.

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[–] CA0311@hexbear.net 68 points 1 year ago (1 children)

my account is three years old and has 13 posts and 101 (i guess now 102) comments

as a bot, i am ashamed by my inefficiency

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[–] ThomasMuentzner@hexbear.net 68 points 1 year ago

to much liberalism still ... but were getting there ,..

[–] flan@hexbear.net 68 points 1 year ago

Do it, cowards.

[–] trudge@hexbear.net 64 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

My quarterly KPI numbers were down and my handler was not pleased but the party always provides.

Thank Xi for the federation. This has been the best thing that happened to my social credit score since the coverup for the failure of the Three Gorges Dam.

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[–] Flyberius@hexbear.net 64 points 1 year ago
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