Having seen how they acted before my instance defederated with them, I disagree. They’re intentionally disruptive and not easy to ignore when they constantly post oversized emojis, brigade threads, and harass users who dare disagree with them. They’re not federating with servers to be nice, they’re federating with servers to “dunk”. They’ve explicitly said so themselves.
Users can block instances now, or they can block the worst offenders from that instance. I’ve had pleasant conversations w/ people from hexbear, so they’re not all bad.
That’s the same as saying that Hitler wasn’t all bad because he liked dogs and built highways. You’re kind of ignoring the big point that is poking you in the butt…
Not all people from hexbear are bad. Those that are can be blocked by community mods or instance admins. It seems that once they get a bit of pushback, they block the instances pushing back on them, so it’s a self-solving problem IMO.
Having seen how they acted before my instance defederated with them, I disagree. They’re intentionally disruptive and not easy to ignore when they constantly post oversized emojis, brigade threads, and harass users who dare disagree with them. They’re not federating with servers to be nice, they’re federating with servers to “dunk”. They’ve explicitly said so themselves.
Users can block instances now, or they can block the worst offenders from that instance. I’ve had pleasant conversations w/ people from hexbear, so they’re not all bad.
That’s the same as saying that Hitler wasn’t all bad because he liked dogs and built highways. You’re kind of ignoring the big point that is poking you in the butt…
And what exactly is that point?
Not all people from hexbear are bad. Those that are can be blocked by community mods or instance admins. It seems that once they get a bit of pushback, they block the instances pushing back on them, so it’s a self-solving problem IMO.