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:
One thing to keep in mind is they don’t federate with kbin.social; so they can’t see your posts or replies, and can’t reply to you. I believe your upvotes won’t federate (maybe to other instances, but not to theirs at least). Downvotes work the same as they do for any other post as those don’t federate in kbin to begin with. One-sided federation in the fediverse seems like it can be a bit confusing to users, I’m not sure in what case it’s a good idea in since it can be like talking to a void.
It’s more so not wanting to see those kind of comments in the first place. It’s not really feasible for me to block every hexbear user.
I choose kbin as my instance since it seemed mostly leftward leaning and full of chill people.
They’re needlessly antagonistic
Edit: I also chose Kbin for it’s superior mobile web UI <3 Ernest
I certainly wasn’t trying to counter your post in any way or anything (especially as a non-kbin.social user), just provide information for people who might not be aware. kbin.social users basically have to see all of their posts with no way to interact or exchange with the other party, giving them little options. And for people who are unaware of this, they might be replying to their users in hopes of discussion or debate that will never happen
Oh no, not at all! I appreciate the knowledge. I’ve been here for a bit but haven’t worked it all out yet and I’m sure others haven’t either.
Even if you had been disagreeing, it would have at least been a constructive conversation unlike the ones started by HB 😜
Ooooh, that’s why they haven’t attacked me yet! Hahahahaha yaay I can call them tankie meme-trash all I like and even support defederating them and they won’t dump six thousand inane meme-posts on me for it . 🎵
Exactly! I vote to defederate from them on our end, because otherwise they can just decide to federate themselves and brigade and troll their way through our magazines. Some Kbin magazines might not be prepared for that.
Nothing they do is in good faith, so why bother with them?