Can we not devolve into shit talking other communities and childish in-fighting? Drama like this is exactly what made Reddit awful, and I hate seeing stuff like this here.

Don't get me wrong, I'm not condoning toxic communities (as many on here claim hexbear is). If your community actively ascribes to promoting hate, for instance, it should be removed/locked/etc. I am, however, making the distinction that we don't need to witch-hunt other communities because we don't agree with their policies or how they are run.

Downvote, unsubscribe, block, and move on.

[–] CheesyFox@lemmy.sdf.org 25 points 4 days ago

Hexbear does actively promote hate towards any non-socialist political ideologies, and towards any trans- and homophobic people. They're not entirely wrong, it's the means they choose that i hate. They're not reducing the amount of hate, only increasing it. Also, seeing such level of hostility they have is depressing.

[–] dragonfucker@lemmy.nz 5 points 3 days ago

Drag disagrees. Zero mod and admin accountability was what made Reddit awful. Getting your account banned for being slightly left wing and having a robot deny your appeals sucked. Communities like r/fatpeoplehate and r/the_donald and r/politicalcompassmemes that took years for admins to address were the worst parts of reddit.

[–] gamermanh@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Can we not devolve into shit talking other communities

Honestly, no, and we shouldn't. Hexbear actively enjoys ruining other people's experiences here, same as exploding heads and other similar places. We shit talk those guys as a way of spreading warning of known bad actors.

as many on here claim hexbear is

Are you saying you think it isn't (bold claim) or that you are somehow unfamiliar with them?

I am, however, making the distinction that we don't need to witch-hunt other communities

Pointing out that a community is bad when someone links directly to that community is not a witch-hunt

[–] Track_Shovel 1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I think you're thinking that I'm falling into the tolerance paradox. Not what I'm about. Again: if you're actively hostile and harming others, then don't expect others to be tolerant when you're being an asshole.

I'm also getting at not letting the fight spill from the alley into the street.

I've heard of hexbear, just not interacted with them.

[–] Draconic_NEO@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 3 days ago

I’ve heard of hexbear, just not interacted with them.

Your instance has defederated them and spared you the trouble, consider yourself lucky. Hexbear users are known to be some of the most abusive users here all around. They regularly post image spam in comments, make divisive and bad faith accusations, as well as the usual promotion of promotion of pro-Russia and pro-CCP propaganda.

So they really aren't good, not in a "personal opinion" kind of way but in an agreed upon sense, which is why many instances have defederated them or refuse to federate with them. Honestly with how much shit they've done it is disingenuous to give them the benefit of the doubt. I know you haven't seen or interacted with their shit personally but honestly that's all the more reason you shouldn't be trying to defend their actions.