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Sealioning (lemmy.world)
submitted 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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[–] [email protected] 16 points 8 months ago (1 children)

The difference is intention. The intention of the sea lion is not to convince you that your claim is wrong or immoral; it's to shut you up, by draining your desire to make the claim, since every time that you do it, a sea lion pops up to annoy the shit out of you.

Hexbear in a nutshell.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 8 months ago (2 children)

I don't know, really. But I feel that Hexbear is mostly misinterpreted - I don't think that they're trying to sealion, it's more like an out-of-place "debate me~" childish cringe. I might be wrong though, as I mentioned in the second paragraph nobody knows the others' intentions.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (2 children)

Hexbear has the same problem as Reddit: it's home to a handful of active, loud, incredibly toxic communities that like to go into other people's online spaces and be assholes.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 8 months ago

Also: if you go there and do what they do elsewhere, you get banned.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

If these spaces have a rule like “no talking if you’re a man” that’s understandable, but what other kinds of “other people’s” spaces are you referring to?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago

Yeah, Hexbear wants hearts and minds, they're just really bad at it.