Is it me or is everyone in hexbear insane?
I think a little clarification is needed. No. I don't actually think everyone there is insane. I don't care about the bans so stop trying to use that. HB enthusiasts coming here and trying to call me out achieves nothing besides proving my point
Edit: Feel free to keep trying to brigade me. It's not going to scare me to take this down
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Seeing the ban coming, they financed and suffered alpha and beta of the Lemmy platform we all enjoy. Then, they chose to become the most GLBTQ+ friendly destination on the internet.
As it's always been, they cope with the horrible events with satirical, sarcastic humor. And, in the middle of that will be a well-reasoned, nuanced, and quite serious post.
But, perhaps the part I like most is the struggle sessions. The entire community will heavily focus on a current topic, then hash it out with good faith discussion.
Their shit isn't convenient or comfortable. It's not easy to understand. And, I fucking love them for it.
edit: Lazy coders need choose a randomized target value and timing or be a moderator to avoid detection by the user. Perceiving is easy when your code is trash. Ask for help from an industrial engineer.
Their supposed support of LGBTQ+ is all for naught when they openly fawn after Stalin
Honestly what is with the comrade/them shit they do about? I thought it was ironic like they were making fun of neopronouns or they were the 4chan people who popularised them in the first place
There's much to learn from Stalin. But, advocating his authoritarian means is a bannable offense there just as they are in any meritable leftist forum. They tolerate a minority of revolutionaries ideologically leading the lumpen as it's a historically very well-supoorted position. But, that doesn't extend to physical force as that's also a historically very well supported position.
It's much easier, convenient, and comfortable to demonized them than understand them. They even provided proactive assistance when many were deciding if they should defederate. They voted internally for defederation to defend their community from the medicrity of the masses.
If not enjoying the image posts of young Stalin as some sort of brilliant maverick is mediocrity, well, so be it. They are clowns, and their beliefs structure is just like trump claiming he "loves the gays"
Young Stalin is where the good stuff is. It's his implementation of those idealistic principles that's unethical.
The rest of what you've said is strawman. Most important is the implying that they're all of one mind. Diversity of ideology is perhaps their greatest strength.
Oh yes, they are so funny, misunderstood, thoughtful and nuanced thinkers.
F them and f you for defending them.
This ~1800 comment thread about whether lemm.ee should defederate with them is all you need for some eye opening, in case anyone needs that.
https://lemm.ee/post/4543536
Above screenshot is from said thread.
The comrade in it actually suggests that there is a time and place for such rhetoric, it is just not right here, right now. you have to think politically and wait for your moment!
Yes, please read what the .ee admin says about where the bigoted users originate and the actions of the hexbear mods in response. It certainly speaks for itself.
though, to be fair, kulaks are bad.
fuck off
It's just tankie 4chan
Hello, low effort neolib troll. Thanks for the opportunity to continue to speak truth.
There's a cultural similarity to what 4-chan was prior to the LOIC. But, they're definitely not tankies. Sincere expressions of authoritarian means are soundly defeated and usually result in permabans. The principle and practice is consistent for MAGA, neolibs, and other authoritarians.
Definitely not a neolib, but I'm glad we agree about the similarities of Nazbear with 4chan
Language analysis of your post history says differently. If you're not a neolib troll then perhaps you should stop presenting as such.
I call BS. My post history has mostly been shitting on LLMs lately, mainly for the consequences they have on the environment, which I think is mostly a left-wing concern.
Making shit up, how nice 🤭
Edit you haven't read much, I suppose because My 5th-ish last post was arguing against the liberal appeal to civility, which is definitely not a "neolib" talking point 🤷♀️
Did I fault your content or your presentation of it?
Nice strawman. You just can't help yourself.
Are you arguing for civility, liberal? Do you wish to police my tone? 🤭
Predictable responses, now assigning me intent. I'll no longer disturb your comfortable order. Best of luck, neolib.
The irony 🤣
Yeah they kept being able to back the most ridiculous claims and then suddenly I was like "oh no they were right all along" and got radicalized 🤷
Coming up with theory in an echo chamber isn't hard.
and how they kept being able to back it up?
That's the whole point of an echo chamber yes. You can say whatever you want without being challenged by other viewpoints and make anything seem plausible.
but they are linking a lot of outside sources. That's what I mean by "backing their claims up", studies about covid, about the ukraine war, about Israel, it's not just someone making a claim and then everyone is nodding along.
What I am saying is they were able to completely upend the way I see the world and you just can't do that by claiming thengs and linking to some other claims you make.
What you're not accounting for is how they curate who is allowed to post in the first place.
I was on lemm.ee when I got radicalized, all my life Ive been exposed to people claiming all sorts of things. I was a pro-NATO pro-Ukraine anti-ussr anti-china average reddit lib that they were able to convince otherwise.
It's surprisingly easy to backup horrible ideas, but that shouldn't be your only concern. You also need to think about the morals and what happened last time it was tried.
The ends do not justify the means. The means are the ends.
i don't think they really helped with the financing of lemmy, although their coders did/do make many valuable contributions to lemmy's code base. out of curiosity, do you have an account on another instance? I'm surprised to see a sympathetic comment like this from an account on an instance that has them defederated
All the computational resources the users tested the code base on must've been free.
Identity politics from .ml?
If you're surprised at such small acts of individual praxis, you'd be amazed at what we've accomplished in groups.
fair enough I just think of direct monetary donations or something when I see financing like that but looking at like that isn't incorrect
I mean kinda? I normally expect people who hold sympathies towards hexbear to use an account on like lemm.ee so they don't have to use more than one account to browse everything they want to see
None of the devs got paid. There are no other expenses.
You expect the convenient implementation of MLK's white moderate. But, my content should give no indication of that stereotype.
I'll answer your previous question: I've personal accounts on world, ee, ml, and hexbear. The fediverse doesn't limit viewing content from multiple accounts concurrently. One must only choose an account to post. The only obstacle to such a tool is a means to avoid burdening the fediverse with duplicate responses to content requests. We solved that problem in a few hours.
If you want actual insight communicated properly then you should ask in the correct venue. For example, I'd have no issue explaining in nuance on hexbear because the majority has a strong understanding or conversion of theory to praxis. I'm not even needed. Others would adequately explain on my behalf.
I think my comments have been too ambiguous then, I didn't mean for anything I've said to come across as hostile in any way, I apologize. I'm a lemmygrad user, made this account because I browse through .ml at work and been meaning to make one so i can comment while there.
I've perceived only good faith from your posts. I apologize if I've not demonstrated that in my responses. It's difficult to do here.
all good no worries, tone can be very hard to show through text 😅
Based on this interaction I've realized my perception of lemmygrad is hypocritical: My experience indicates that our shallow, automated and wide scope language analysis likely isn't human truth. I've decided to spend more time there.
Thank you for risking good faith engagement when it's not popular or politic. Iron sharpens iron.