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Maybe also got some growth from other communists on fedi seeing us and joining ig

Idk, I'm just not built for dunking ig
o7 to all of you who've gone through the effort to write big explanations of stuff for passing liberals to see though

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[–] [email protected] 58 points 2 years ago (1 children)

We have found old comrades and new ones.

Yes the libs outnumber those we find, and yes it is an endless battle. But it's worth it.

[–] [email protected] 53 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I don't personally want to dunk, but it is entertaining watching the dunk. And there's always more for me to learn from my comrades because I am a LIB

[–] [email protected] 41 points 2 years ago

student always

[–] [email protected] 50 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

Idk, I'm just not built for dunking ig o7 to all of you who've gone through the effort to write big explanations of stuff for passing liberals to see though

Yeah, honestly this is anxiety-inducing for me. I am simply not built for twitter-like endless arguing/dunking. It did bring out a bit of effortposting out of me, but at what cost? Especially since I have to watch out for what I say in case I say something horrifically wrong (because there's libs watching) or when there's a reply notification it could be some 🌐 bozo ready to fight.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 2 years ago

I don't think you have to worry about saying something wrong: libs will find ways to shit on the most well rounded and honed arguments. Like yeah it feels bad when you're wrong but at the end of the day it's not a huge deal if you lose an argument. I definetly get the latter fear, it isn't something I've had to deal with since I haven't been fighting the libs this past week 😔

[–] [email protected] 25 points 2 years ago

Trust that if some bozo is trying to start a fight, your comrades will be there to dunk on them.

[–] [email protected] 43 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I had a feeling this would really mess with the community which had developed here and it did, the thing I used this site for was to be able to hear from people outside the lib/fash echo chambers everywhere else online and now the coziness of that is gone and replaced with a bro troll energy. I don't care who you dunked on or how hard you did it, spreading the word of your great victory over some internet moron just means I get stuck hearing another stupid opinion even if you epically tear it apart, and if I wanted to just read stupid opinions I can do that on reddit-logo or twitter

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Exactly. I'm tired of forum drama. I don't give a shit what random liberals on the internet say. Imagine if I posted every single fucking tweet from random Elon reply guys.

Are they all dumb and easy to dunk on? Yeah. Does that mean everyone else needs to see them? Absolutely not. Please let us talk about systemic issues and global politics again instead of "oooh another lemmy user posted cringe" as if anyone cared.

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[–] [email protected] 42 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

I've seen 3 libs so far stop and question their assumptions and the systems around them, and then disengage from their debate-broing

have patience!

We'll convert the ones who are able to be saved and the lost causes will segregate themselves by banning and blocking and defeding us while shitting and crying and turning into a corn cob

[–] [email protected] 34 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I managed to persuade one to read on authority by just being nice to them so I count that as a personal dub for me

[–] [email protected] 24 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Being nice works sometimes, its important to know when to go hard and when to be gentle

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 years ago (1 children)

From my observation, both at the same time gets the best results. I hesitate to call it good cop/bad cop but maybe that's what it is ooooooooooooooh NOOOOO

[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 years ago (1 children)

nice comrade/naughty comrade

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[–] [email protected] 39 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I just wanted an environment away from the redditification that the rest of the internet has become. Sticking to local instances is kinda helping until one of those fucking goobers comes in with their welll akshully bullshit

[–] [email protected] 23 points 2 years ago (1 children)

the good part of that is that when they come into our territory we can just shell them with impunity

[–] [email protected] 26 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Yeah that's hillarious and all, but i can see how people still get tired of all the shitlib dinguses waltzing into our space being redditor debatelords. That they shrivel and turn into a corncob and drop gems like "i've got like 200 messages from insane tankies in my inbox" is amusing, but doesn't change the fact that we've lost having a niche to ourselves where we could completely avoid that particular way of starting self-aggrandizing internet fights.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I think we will have local-only comms before too long which will help things out

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[–] [email protected] 33 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Did the Star Trek instance defed or something? I remember seeing their posts at first but haven’t seen them recently.

I’m also still wishing there were more hobbyist instances/communities to interact with, since this has always been a little lacking.

[–] [email protected] 36 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Looks like there are a bunch in the instances list. How it works, from my understanding, is that someone has to search for a comm and/or subscribe before the content actually syncs. I ended up subbing to all the hexbear comms so they show up on Mander but I’m the only one subbed to most of them.

Unfortunately, someone in the home instance has to find and interact first.

There’s also a bot that some instances run which automatically subs to all linked comms so they are searchable from within a home instance but not many run it.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 years ago (11 children)

:0 Could you link to the got repo for this bot? I wouldn't mind running for Hexbear

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[–] [email protected] 31 points 2 years ago

I think the novelty of dunking on those losers will wear out around the same time they begin defedding from us. The lib instances are already complaining about us, and barring a firm stance from their admins which will also lead to its own drama, they'll will eventually defed from us. I don't see the current vibe lasting for very long.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Please don't stop we need you

[–] [email protected] 30 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Eh I wasnt dunking that much anyway, the rest of hexbear was already doing a good enough job

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[–] [email protected] 29 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I know I shouldn't think of Hexbear as /r/chapotraphouse 2 but we did bring the best-in-class shitposting along with us. Now we also have retrieved the ability to evangelize

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[–] [email protected] 26 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I mainly don't want hexbear have a reputation of being annoying and pestilential, instead of funny, welcoming, unwelcoming to bigots, and very far left.

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (7 children)

Honest question, do y'all not like hobby communities? I can understand if this venue is purely an outlet for sociopolitical discussion for y'all. But there are a lot of smaller communities now at your fingertips, for quirky hobbies and topical discussion. Ones that'd totally welcome you if you want to take a break from dunking and just want to talk about music, or VHS, or rabbits, or JavaScript.

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 years ago

Best thing to do is not comment on a thread about how that thread is still on active or has a lot of comments, because that'll keep it on active

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 years ago

Star Trek website is good

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 years ago

Its annoying that every thread turns into muh china/russia debate. The libs will never understand it.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

isnt 196 holed up on blahaj? makes it insufferable and hostile to trans people

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