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:
I see a lot of discussions regarding hexbear defederation, but surprisingly not much about lemmingrad. From the surface, the last one seems much shittier place.
They’re both pretty terrible.
I’ve seen their brigading on lemmy communities before. They will also serial downvote anything they don’t like.
Personally, I would vote to defederate from both Hexbear and lemmygrad. Kbin is nice because it feels like the majority of people are posting, commenting, and overall discussing in good faith. It’s a nice culture. Neither of those two instances fit with it.
I agree. Even barring any other factors, the intense toxicity of a community ruining another isn’t exactly a fresh concept. Hexbear and lemmygrad, like 4chan, are more garbage than gold, and they’ll drag you down to the dumps with them.
Pretty sure we’re already defederated from grad. We don’t have an instances page yet where we could check, but that’s been merged into kbin’s code and should be available next time the site gets a version update.
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I think Lemmygrad being larger might also be an issue.
I haven’t seen Lemmygrad brigade or engage in the same 4chan trolling shittery. I’ve seen their genocide denial, though. They’re both bad, but Hexbear, as far as I’ve seen, is much more disruptive.