Hexbear is where r/ChapoTrapHouse went after they got banned from reddit for being too cringe even for reddit.
Political Compass Memes
Rules
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Political Compass Memes only
All posts must relate to the Political Compass. Meta Content and Quality OC relating to the community is allowed.
Not everything with 4 colored squares is a PCM. So called “Get out of my head” posts are not allowed.
Orange by itself isn't part of the Political Compass and must be accompanied by another quadrant. -
NSFW content
NSFW material is allowed so long as it is legal in the USA and properly marked. -
Negative interactions with other communities
a. Advocating, inciting, or participating in brigading is not allowed.
b. For any content from other social medias, all names and usernames, except those of public figures, must be fully blocked out.
c. Posts centered around bans from other sites are not allowed. -
Low effort content
IS NOW ALLOWED so long as it actually relates to the compass. -
Misinformation
Properly label your post with a tag contained in square brackets[tag]
if it contains fabricated or edited information. This is not to be considered as denial or support for the truthfulness of the base material.Example: [Fake news] Research shows the Earth is flat.
This rule applies to any image/twitter post/news article/etc that has been falsified or modified beyond its original form for any reason.
As a poster, it's your responsibility to know what you are posting. Ignorance is no defense here. -
Reposts
Reposting content is not allowed for 6 months after the post was last made Reports should come with a link to the previous post. -
Spam
General spam isn't allowed.
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Wojaks
All hexbear people need to be banned.
Many of them strike me as CCP propaganda peddlers. These types should be banned. If there are others that legitimately have opinions, I'd say leave them and let them be corrected by the larger community.
That said... If they abuse accounts and voting to pump their opinions (it feels like this may be happening), then ban them.
Tl;dr: Ban all shilling, astroturfing, and organized propaganda peddling.
That sounds a bit extreme.
Nope.
Hexbear kinda just seem like trolls? Like no normal person seriously thinks making fun of a single dictator is equivalent to racism, it reads more like they're genocide apologists who don't want China's government questioned.
This tracks with what I found when looking into defederation. Calling them leftists is kinda falling for their deception.
They are authoritarians and use the cloak of leftism to defend authoritarian governments. They do not argue honestly and they brigade, coordinating on hexbear in plain sight. I defederated my two instances a while back for these reasons.
Being left and auth aren't mutually exclusive. Look at Stalin for example.
Fair! These folks do not actually believe in any of the leftist policies they claim to like, however.
If you claim the PRC is anything but an authoritarian capitalist hellscape, you have nothing of value to contribute. The world is filled with authoritarians who use the popularity of leftist policies to get into power, then put those people in camps.
As someone who leans left and generally supports socialism, Hexbear is hot fucking garbage. Lemmygrad is only slightly better.
They're slowly killing the fediverse as reasonable people see their authoritarian propaganda and leave.
I'm sure fucking tired of it, it's definitely making my experience here not as worthwhile
I don't think the problem with Hexbear is political. Some of their points are questionable, but that's of course up for debate.
What tends to annoy me about their users is how obnoxious they can be. Between the flooding of comments and replies, the weird emojis and the numerous attempts at provocating people from outside of their little cicle (which happens both in their domestic communities as well as the federated ones), it all makes you wonder if they even care about the health of the fediverse
Nah. They rather live in echo chamber than create a healthy community. Same thing happened on Reddit. The history repeats itself.