As time passes I become increasingly convinced that dbzer0 is a tankie instance. I wonder if I’ll receive any notification that My posts are removed if these people remove them. We don’t federate .ml
Not that I’m a hugely active community member, but I haven’t noticed a lot of tanks around. Certainly more left unity than other instances, but we do have a vote to defed from hexbear every three months it seems like.
Db0 is federated with Hexbear? The owner of Blahaj tried to stay federated with them due to the large trans community there but eventually had to put it to a vote and defederated because their users were harassing and brigading Blahaj users on our own instance for not being “socialist” enough. Then Hexbear played the victim card after the fact and claimed that it was Blahaj users who were harassing their trans community.
I haven’t witnessed any direct brigading, but I can always tell when a post or comment is from them. I like seeing radically different ideas and opinions on occasion, but it would be a lot less irritating if they would drop the “it’s not my job to educate you” stance. The majority of responses to elaboration are just name calling.
Honestly, that whole aspect seems pretty antithetic to communism.
Anytime I’ve seen anything from there, it’s always been abrasive at best and outright aggressive or hostile at worst. I’ve started likening it to the leftist 4chan of Lemmy.
Sometimes I wonder if they’re an ancap psyop to make leftists as a whole look bad.
They are not rational people engaging in good-faith discussions. They even use some of the same lingo as alt-right cesspools (“shitlib,” “glowie,” etc.)
You can still find the posts on the whole saga on Blahaj somewhere, but my recollection is that Blahaj users got harassed, Ada said something to the admins on Hexbear to try to resolve the issue, they either refused to do anything or went full no contact, and then when Blahaj voted to defederate, they defederated first before Blahaj could and then claimed that Blahaj users were transphobic towards their users and that Ada or any of the other admins never contacted them, etc.
Basically went “You can’t block me if I block you first!” and then played the victim/transphobia card…against the instance largely created for trans people, by trans people.
I’ve noticed more as time goes on, but it’s because -bear and -grad are spreading to (mostly .ml) other instances to evangelise to those who attempt to block their horse shit. We’re not largely defederated yet so we’re a target for that expansion.
They’re very draconic about not criticizing genAI. I don’t know if they’re tankies per se, but they’re definitely authoritarian about people that disagree with them.
Considering the fediverse has like 3 topics they talk about and the one that is spammed for the most upvotes is purity testing how much someone hates AI, I think it’s fair to shut it up in a place that publicly stated they are pro-AI.
They are free to defederate from every instance where people are anti-AI, but they want to have their filter bubble and preach it too. Pretending to have only heard a set of straw man arguments and then laboriously deleting every comment that points out it’s a straw man.
As time passes I become increasingly convinced that dbzer0 is a tankie instance. I wonder if I’ll receive any notification that My posts are removed if these people remove them. We don’t federate .ml
Not that I’m a hugely active community member, but I haven’t noticed a lot of tanks around. Certainly more left unity than other instances, but we do have a vote to defed from hexbear every three months it seems like.
I’m seeing dbzer0 lose the information war to ml and adopt more tankie stances on issues over time.
Db0 is federated with Hexbear? The owner of Blahaj tried to stay federated with them due to the large trans community there but eventually had to put it to a vote and defederated because their users were harassing and brigading Blahaj users on our own instance for not being “socialist” enough. Then Hexbear played the victim card after the fact and claimed that it was Blahaj users who were harassing their trans community.
I haven’t witnessed any direct brigading, but I can always tell when a post or comment is from them. I like seeing radically different ideas and opinions on occasion, but it would be a lot less irritating if they would drop the “it’s not my job to educate you” stance. The majority of responses to elaboration are just name calling. Honestly, that whole aspect seems pretty antithetic to communism.
Anytime I’ve seen anything from there, it’s always been abrasive at best and outright aggressive or hostile at worst. I’ve started likening it to the leftist 4chan of Lemmy.
Sometimes I wonder if they’re an ancap psyop to make leftists as a whole look bad.
They are not rational people engaging in good-faith discussions. They even use some of the same lingo as alt-right cesspools (“shitlib,” “glowie,” etc.)
Was it not hexbear that defederated blahaj first?
You can still find the posts on the whole saga on Blahaj somewhere, but my recollection is that Blahaj users got harassed, Ada said something to the admins on Hexbear to try to resolve the issue, they either refused to do anything or went full no contact, and then when Blahaj voted to defederate, they defederated first before Blahaj could and then claimed that Blahaj users were transphobic towards their users and that Ada or any of the other admins never contacted them, etc.
Basically went “You can’t block me if I block you first!” and then played the victim/transphobia card…against the instance largely created for trans people, by trans people.
I’ve noticed more as time goes on, but it’s because -bear and -grad are spreading to (mostly .ml) other instances to evangelise to those who attempt to block their horse shit. We’re not largely defederated yet so we’re a target for that expansion.
They’re very draconic about not criticizing genAI. I don’t know if they’re tankies per se, but they’re definitely authoritarian about people that disagree with them.
Considering the fediverse has like 3 topics they talk about and the one that is spammed for the most upvotes is purity testing how much someone hates AI, I think it’s fair to shut it up in a place that publicly stated they are pro-AI.
They are free to defederate from every instance where people are anti-AI, but they want to have their filter bubble and preach it too. Pretending to have only heard a set of straw man arguments and then laboriously deleting every comment that points out it’s a straw man.