Due to the severity of the situation and the fast flowing news cycle, we have decided to create a general megathread for discussion regarding the conflict.

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  • @CmdrShepard@lemmy.one
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    02 years ago

    As a counterpoint, I don’t mind the hexbear and lemmygrad posts being hidden from view. These people have no interest in good faith arguments and instead derail every post into irrelevant arguments filled with half-truths or outright disinformation.

    Server instances deciding independently whether or not to defederate gives people the option to either use an instance where they won’t see this garbage or one where they do. Sounds like a win-win to me.

    • @OurToothbrush@lemmy.mlM
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      -12 years ago

      These people have no interest in good faith arguments and instead derail every post into irrelevant arguments filled with half-truths or outright disinformation.

      I haven’t really seen any evidence of this and worldnews gets a lot of hexbear and lemmygrad posters. It just comes off as red-scaring to me.

      • @CmdrShepard@lemmy.one
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        12 years ago

        Well a lot of the rest of Lemmy have seen numerous examples of it which is why they keep getting defederated from instances. This being about communism is a red herring as the lemmy.ml is run by self-proclaimed communists.

        Furthermore, I rarely ever see hexbear users actually discussing communism or any other economic system. Typically it’s just ad hominem remarks about “the west,” strawman arguments, concern trolling as if they’re innocent victims, and carrying water for the Chinese and Russian governments.

    • @zerfuffle@lemmy.ml
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      02 years ago

      Damn hexbear and lemmygrad really became the new “commie”

      It’s really shone a light on how little the West actually understands communism tbh

      Y’all are talking past each other because you’re operating on entirely different assumptions about what the same words mean