• magnetosphere@fedia.io
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    20 hours ago

    The hive mind might already be here, depending on who you ask. I was already left/progressive, though, so it just feels like hanging out with like-minded people.

    Jerks I can do without, but they’re unavoidable. Simply not engaging with them seems to work best.

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      20 hours ago

      I feel like to a point it might be, but to a point in today’s age and internet - everything is an echo chamber so it’s turned into a “pick ypur poison” kind of thing.

      That being said, open discourse and actual conversation seems more prevalent and easier to come by here then on reddit which is very nice.

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        19 hours ago

        I think the different instances help with that, as it encourages at least some interaction outside of your direct bubble…

        That said when Hexbear re-enable federation I very much doubt “open discourse” or “actual conversation” will be the results

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          17 hours ago

          Oh I hadn’t heard about that. Could you elaborate at all or point me in the direction of some more info?

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              You are a shameful liar.

              Doxxing is explicitly against their code of conduct: “Do not publish, comment, message, or post personally identifiable information about other users. We also strongly discourage posting any personally identifiable information about yourself.” They are the only instance that doesn’t log IP addresses in their database and scrubs meta-data from any image uploaded there.

              Where are their communities dedicated to brigading? There is no actual proof of them doing anything like that, more so it is the most active instance (4.9 million comments) so anyone posting blatant lies like you will be confronted.

              Hexbears troll and give personal attacks against either those that start it with them or people who are racist, homophobic, transphobic, or ableist.

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                And the US doesn’t torture prisoners. And Russia didn’t invade Ukraine. And nothing happened in China on 4th June 1989…

                The rules are completely unenforced, and also generally don’t apply for actions against people on other instances. Take a look at slop as the biggest example where they link to other instances and swathes of Hexbear users go brigade that post without even taking the time to factcheck, and look around at their other communities and you’ll find plenty of similar ones.