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:
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.