I go by “test” on live.hexbear.net, or “tset” or “tst” or some other variant when I’m not logged in.
We watch movies on the weekends and sometimes also hang out during the week, you should drop by.
hexbears are abrasive because we expect most liberals to be venomous and dismissive toward us and not listen to anything we say, even if we operate in good faith. so instead of wasting a lot of energy on a response that will be thrown back at us like dogshit, we’re flippant and cursory. for my part, I actually still respond in good faith most of the time, but I pick my battles.
what the fuck does that even mean, “left wing version of /r/TheDonald”
like the donald but believing the exact opposite things?
I have a different answer than blakeus12
the two factors are
An ambient sense of how unreceptive the instance is toward us. If the distribution of responses we get is skewed too far toward “I don’t give a fuck what you have to say, I’m not reading that, fuck you you disgusting tankie,” that’s a reason to not federate. And I mean… I’ll be the first one to admit hexbears can be annoying and too eager to dunk on people, but on the flip side I also think our views are often misrepresented and demonized, and it’s frustrating when people won’t even bother to understand what we actually think or why.
If any of our users feel harrassed or unsafe, even if the culprits are a small minority of the instance, we are liable to defederate. And this shouldn’t be taken personally! We all know lemmy still has limited mod tools. But we prioritize each other over federation, we’re a close-knit community who have been together for years.
when a majority white community mocks a chinese man by comparing his appearance to a yellow bear, it’s a little weird
You ever notice how America seems unable to meaningfully damage China’s economy?
This is because China’s economy is integral to everyone else’s. You can’t really hurt China without hurting yourself. Their annual trade volume is in the trillions of dollars.
China paid a price for this leverage. The price was allowing capitalists to operate within China. That is how you do business with the rest of the capitalist world.
that’s stupid, then, why would you bother to make a comment like that. Who gives a shit?