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[–] LeateWonceslace@lemm.ee 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] Hubi@feddit.de 14 points 1 year ago (3 children)

It's not a who, it's an instance: hexbear.net. It's also full of pro-Russia tankies.

[–] FaeDrifter@midwest.social 7 points 1 year ago

Russian troll farms have hit lemmy = lemmy has made it to the social media big leagues now!

[–] PersnickityPenguin@lemm.ee 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Uh… Is there a reason why I’ve never heard of this?

[–] Gsus4@feddit.nl 10 points 1 year ago

They were not federated before. They did around 9 days ago.

[–] Snowpix@lemmy.ca -1 points 1 year ago

They only were recently federated, and got defederated from some large instances like lemmy.world for their explicit intent to brigade other instances and communities to spread their "anti-liberal" nonsense.