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Thoughts on defederarion from Hexbear? (kbin.social)

submitted 1 year ago by Whisp@kbin.social to c/kbinMeta@kbin.social

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As many other threads have popped up about this over the last few days, I thought I'd raise a thread on kbin about this too.

From what I've seen, they seem like mainly inflammatory trolls who steadfastly support either Russia or the CCP while adding little of value to actual discussions elsewhere on the site.
Was a vote to federate with them in the first place even had?
What's everyone's thoughts?

Nonscientific strawpoll:

https://strawpoll.com/PbZqREqzNyN

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[–] Pons_Aelius@kbin.social 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I have read a few posts about the hexbear trolls but have not seen a thread were they are present.

Can anyone point me in the direction of what you are talking about?

[–] Whisp@kbin.social 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You can see their pro-russia propaganda in this thread pretty clearly, as an example:

https://kbin.social/m/worldnews@lemmy.ml/t/422878/Ukraine-expands-conscription-removes-medical-exemptions-for-HIV-hepatitis-mental#comments

[–] static@kbin.social 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Do you have any examples of that kind of posting in kbin magazines? For now I don't see a problem.

Once they start spamming kbin I'm all for defederation. Especially because there are few moderation&blocking tools available right now.

[–] cre0@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

“I know he smears shit on the walls but unless you have proof of him smearing shit on your walls I’m letting him in”

[–] tentaclius@kbin.social 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I see a lot of discussions regarding hexbear defederation, but surprisingly not much about lemmingrad. From the surface, the last one seems much shittier place.

[–] CoffeeAddict@artemis.camp 1 points 1 year ago

I’ve seen Hexbear and lemmygrad brigading communities before. They (lemmygrad) will also serial downvote anything they don’t like.

Personally, I would vote to defederate from both Hexbear and lemmygrad. Kbin is nice because it feels like the majority of people are posting, commenting, and overall discussing in good faith. It’s a nice culture. Neither of those two instances fit with it.

Edit: Clarified that lemmygrad serial downvotes.

[–] cacheson@kbin.social 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Pretty sure we're already defederated from grad. We don't have an instances page yet where we could check, but that's been merged into kbin's code and should be available next time the site gets a version update.