Yea and a couple other comments also, but it seems that hexbear purged the others before they even federated to lemm.ee. They were probably just too slow to purge this one, which is why you can see it.
Misanthrophic cowards living in a censored bubble and being violently hateful towards everyone else while immediately deleting any criticism that comes back their way. What a sad state of affairs.
I think it’s just lemmy.world, and they actually aren’t defederated from dbzer0, they just blocked the piracy community specifically. I think dbzer0 is pretty much fully federated with all the major servers except for lemmygrad. With .world blocking the piracy community, it only affects their users, dbzer0 users can still participate in any lemmy.world content.
There’s also this site, which gives you more options for filtering, but also seems to throw up errors pretty consistently in my experience.
In terms of figuring out which instances are cool with one another, this site is also quite useful. It’s a web of trust model that a majority of major instances participate in.
It shows which instances endorse one another, with those instances obviously being federated. It also shows how instances choose to describe/tag themselves, which can give you a better understanding of their general vibe. And it also shows which instances are viewed with suspicion, as they are hesitated or censured by other instances.
@Martineski pinging you
Oh, did your users decide to let you come back and be an admin again? That’s good, I thought the inmates were running the asylum for a bit there. Although I suppose it’s less of an asylum, and more of a trap house 😂
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They literally made you do a struggle session. Why do you people insist on larping the most reprehensible aspects of communism? Even the CPC quickly realized this kind of shit was more harmful than productive and cleaved heavily towards capitalism 50+ years ago. And yet y’all are still choosing to live out this bizarre fantasy in a diluted digital form. Yikes.
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That was a bit harsh on my part. It’s important for me to tell the truth and not just shamelessly gloat. In my honest opinion, you didn’t do anything wrong with that decision, or at least nothing worthy of the criticism you received. Your problem is that most of your userbase is incredibly toxic and dysfunctional, and no matter what you do, they will attempt to make other people suffer, because that’s the only way they can feel marginally better about themselves. You just happened to get in the way on that occasion, so you became the target.
my joke but worse
Nice one dude
Damn homies, did you really have to chop me up like that? Couldn’t you have at least done me the justice of leaving my prose intact and judging me based on my carefully constructed comments and arguments? Everything is intentionally out of order, that’s such a lame and transparent tactic.
After all, we all know your reaction would have been identical regardless, because conclusions precede arguments when it comes to this server. For you, arguments are just the rubble you fill in to form a shaky foundation to the conclusions which you have already predetermined. Confirmation bias just hits different, am I right?
Tbh I just skimmed this thread, but the only halfway relevant counterpoint I saw was that Russia and China get plenty of hate on Lemmy too. Congratulations, at least one of you is not completely incapable of rational thought. The obvious response is that Russian and Chinese nationals don’t use Lemmy, so it doesn’t matter whether or not they get hate (within the context of my argument), because they’re not reading any of this anyway. They have no impact on the success of Lemmy, aside from their successful infiltration of hexbear, which is fairly transparent to the rest of us.
I also enjoyed that the only one of you with the gumption to grant the slightest point in my favor, although of course hedging with some strong condemnation in the very next sentence, received two lemmygrad downvotes for their trouble. Could it be that the American/European divide exists between hexbear/lemmygrad as well?
On the one hand, many Europeans absolutely do have a moral superiority complex rooted in a salty jealousy and deep insecurity about [America] being the world’s hegemon.
I really struck a nerve with that point, and it’s quite satisfying to see the massive reaction it provoked. Methinks the lady doth protest too much.
But by far my favorite part of this post was the fact that OP mistakenly used the word prosecuted when they meant to say persecuted, and not a single one of you even realized or mentioned it. In fact, one of you replicated the mistake in your comment. Really not beating the allegations of being Russian/Chinese agents here 😂. Or for that matter, the allegations of being larping edgelord teenagers, or even just moderately unintelligent individuals who overcompensate for their abject confusion and insecurity by clinging to a black and white worldview based on a rudimentary conception of Marxism along with dubious claims of solidarity and empathy for the working class.
It’s actually the perfect scenario, because one of my most arrogant claims during that rant has been clearly demonstrated, accidentally, by my staunchest opponents. I claimed that my command of the English language ruled me out as a foreign agent, and the community many suspect to be riddled with foreign agents gave wind to my sails retrospectively by making an elementary definitional mistake in their attempt to mock me. God bless you hexbearians, never change.
Wow, that’s unbelievable that we actually advanced after this shitshow. What a performance from Bayindir. Seems like the football gods smiled on us today, despite the horrendous refereeing. Kai Havertz 😂
Hoping this can be a turning point in our season
Anything that doesn’t put the ENTIRE content discovery engine fully in the hands of the users and that doesn’t make content moderation a crowdsourced-only transparent, auditable endeavor is going to reproduce l’ancien régime.
Aren’t you just describing Lemmy?
Content discovery is fully in the hands of the users, and content moderation is both crowd-sourced and transparent.
Upvotes, downvotes, and reports are all forms of crowd sourced moderation. The modlog is transparent and auditable. What are you on about?
My goodness, that was a roller coaster. Although I found it lacking in cohesiveness (I’m not sure that the evidence supports the conclusions), it’s certainly a thought-provoking article. Thanks for the link.
But the only reason he was being prosecuted was because of his connection to Biden. An average working class person would never have been charged with this crime in the first place.
Damn. I actually thought he might turn things around back when he was brought in. Their engineers have let them down, how did they fall so far behind after being so far ahead just 15 years ago?
It’s called Virginia, not East Virginia.
But in all seriousness it’s because the state was divided during the Civil War and the original Virginia kept on being Virginia. And West Virginia was evidently the most satisfactory name they could come up with for the new state. Could have also gone with North Virginia, but with the context of the civil war (north vs south) they may have avoided that one.
Thanks boss. Looking and running good
It’s remarkable how effective that strategy has been.
Reagan/Bush run up the deficit by 300%+ due to tax cuts and massive military spending, foreign wars
Clinton pays off the deficit, gets the economy booming, scales back military spending and foreign entanglements
GWB campaigns on a platform of tax cuts and increased military spending, along with denying climate change, barely wins
deficit skyrockets due to tax cuts, multi trillion dollar wars, lack of financial regulation collapses global economy
Obama has to save the economy again, extricate us from foreign entanglements again, while fighting against a republican establishment that refuses to pass any legislation
Trump administration completely fails to deal with COVID pandemic and tanks the economy yet again
Biden has to clean up that mess, and the resultant inflation is blamed on the Democrats
How many times are people going to fall for this shit?
Ok I still think it’s wrong to criticize nonviolent resistance but I appreciate the data and links. It is true that I didn’t read the linked article at first.
I’m extremely confused. The civil rights movement in the 1950s and 60s, led by MLK, had massive, sweeping success. Brown v. BOE, Loving v. Virginia, Civil Rights Act of 1964, Voting Rights Act of 1965, Fair Housing Act of 1968, etc. The non-violent strategy succeded in striking down segregation, Jim crow laws, and nearly all forms of legal racial discrimination within a couple decades.
Securing legal rights for minority groups to be treated equally under the law and courts is a losing strategy? What exactly is your objective if you see the civil rights movement as a loss?
I understand that you’re probably not American so you may not have an extensive knowledge of American history. But this is pretty important stuff, and acting like MLK failed because of his non-violent strategy is 1,000,000% wrong. Literally could not be further from the truth.
What did the Black Panthers accomplish with their violent strategy? They committed a few terrorist acts and all ended up dead or in jail. They didn’t secure any major, permanent victories for future generations.
Saying that MLK failed because of his non-violent approach is like saying Julius Caesar failed because he was an ineffective military commander. It’s so incredibly incorrect that I don’t understand how you could ever come to think that.
I’m sure 80% of them are lovely people
Guess again, young one 😂
The toxicity you see when they raid other instances is just the tip of the iceberg. They have created an incubator for hatred in that server and any lovely people were driven away long ago. Would lovely people consistently support and upvote calls for indiscriminate violence, glorifying murderers, denying crimes against humanity, etc? I should hope not.
It’s very sad because initially they probably came with good intentions as leftists. But the hexbear echo chamber warps their perspective and convinces them to adopt positions that run counter to common human decency. Any purportedly leftist space that actively and ruthlessly suppresses healthy intellectual debate should be viewed with extreme suspicion.
It’s quite plausible that they have been co-opted by foreign agents wishing to destabilize western democracies. It would explain their pathological obsession with the Palestinian conflict, the Russian invasion, idolizing the CCP, and trying to convince people not to vote for Kamala. Basically every position that they take is counterproductive in the extreme, and it’s unclear whether they do so simply because they’re myopic idiots or if there is also some direct foreign influence at play.
Fresh idiots are being born every day, unfortunately