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:
While the comments are shit (they came across a lame trolls), I don’t see them as bad enough to defederate.
If this is the worst, I would vote no at the moment.
That’s not really the worst, I’ve seen people calling others racist for making fun of Xi Jinping with a Winnie the Pooh meme and intentionally trying to rile others up by acting like their community is above others, but the common thread here is that every Hexbear post I’ve seen is bad faith trolling and there’s no reason they need to be allowed into normal communities. Defederating gets rid of a bunch of wackos in one fell swoop.
Does it though?
For how long?
If hexbear is cut off won’t the trolls just migrate to different instances?
Not likely. They’d been bottled up in hexbear not bothering anybody for a while before they decided to federate. They spend so much time circlejerking it makes sense they wouldn’t even notice going back to that.
Counterpoint: There is no fun being a troll when everyone agrees with you.
The whole point is to say bad things to spark outrage among normies.
That is why the trolls want to be on Twitter and not Truth Social.
If hexbear gets cut off, it becomes boring to the trolls and they will move on.
This wasn’t meant to highlight the worst I’ve seen, just the first one I found afterPons_Aelius asked for an example.
As gk99 said, none of their arguments are in good faith and they don’t contribute worthwhile content of their own to make it seem worth federating with them.
Then what was the point of the link?
If you are not willing to provide evidence of what you think is the problem with the instance, there is no way for me or others to judge.
Trust me bro, they are bad., is all I am seeing in this thread.
Because you asked for a link where they were acting in bad faith? Its Russian propanda
And all you came up with was a few troll comments.
Again, I have herd multiple accounts saying how bad they are, yet yours is the only link.
You say they are bad, prove it.
Otherwise it is just a call to your authority saying they are bad.
Again, post some links rather than replying without them.
Edit: @Whisp
downvoting me without providing evidence kind of proves my point.
Nah I don’t owe you shit lol. Go find it on your own
So it is trust me bro!!!