Seems people frequently talk about negative experiences of them then end up banned shortly after

Also seems like people are weirdly quick to jump to their defense for the internet

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    In short, tankies that won’t shut up and stop shoehorning themselves into every conversation. Feel free to block every user that will inevitably reply to this comment about how I’m not Trotskij-pilled and really a bourgeoisie Jeff Bezos semen demon, or some stupid shit like that.

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    They’re annoying as fuck with a toxic culture, which is why they were running as isolated instance for so long

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    They’re just trolls. They say their communist, but I haven’t seen any evidence other than they say they hate capitalism. But who doesn’t nowadays? Really they’re anarchists with nothing more to do.

    Imagine the worst right wing trump supporter spouting off crazy shit and trying to get you pissed off. That’s them, but the left side.

    They also like to team up and have multiple accounts.

    Buuut… they usually hate all the same things I do, so it’s hard to hate them too. 🤷‍♂️

    Don’t feed the bear.

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    The place is awful. Waiting for individual instance banning.

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    Lemmy is mostly leftists and communists and it seems that patience is running thin on how some very active reactionary HB’s behave against the ideologies. There are also cool & funny leftists there but they get lost in noise.

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      Lemmy isn’t mostly leftists and commies, it’s that the leftist and commie instances defederated with the right wing instances

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        It’s both true that Lemmy is mostly leftists and communists, and which have defederated from right wingers

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    I jump to the defense of hexbear because, well … I like them.

    They’re spicy.

    I’ve seen some truly heinous, ignorant, repugnant shit on here but it’s never actually been from hexbear users.

    (it’s been from lemmygrad users)

    hexbear users have been outspoken and unapologetically staunch in defending their positions, but never outright bloodthirsty or antagonistic.

    or at least, maybe my sarcasm detection is being more generous than it’s supposed to be, and registering false positives…? because to my view I’ve seen hexbears JOKE about some dark shit, but it never came across as unironically hostile to me.

    but anyway, my opinion alone won’t sway the outcome. if the consensus forms firmly against hexbear, i’ll just have to roll with that outcome. But i’d miss 'em, I would.