My first months on Lemmy were spent on Lemmy.world, which was the biggest instance at the time. I had no experience with Hexbear because .world had defederated that instance. I sometimes saw it being described as a "tankie" instance, but it was nothing specific.

After I moved to .zip, I came across !games@hexbear.net, which seemed to be free from anything overtly political and reminded me of r/Gamingcirclejerk, so I subscribed to it and occasionally made comments related to gaming.

Today I made multiple comments to a post about an article on the STALKER game developers having removed the Soviet symbols and the Russian audio in the remastered edition of the game. I would argue that in the thread, there were no comments from me that could be construed by a reasonable person as defensive of Nazism, fascism, or even hinting at it. For example, in one of the comments, I linked a Ukrainian law that prohibits the use of Nazi symbols, though I highly advise looking through all my ten comments as to avoid any misunderstanding or false impressions.

Conversely, one comment posted by another user dismissed Holodomor as Nazi propaganda, which I reported, but a moderator of that community just ended up calling me out for that and taking no action, followed by them banning me.

The thread containing all of my untouched posts is still available via lemmy.zip. My comments are also available for viewing via my user page. They are not available on hexbear due to the ban.

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[–] Gsus4@mander.xyz 9 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 1 hour ago) (1 children)

putin sympathizes with elon nazi musk. I wonder what they think about him.

[–] Merva@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

They will claim to hate him (and Trump), and then keep on regurgitating propaganda constructed in favour of him.

[–] GolfNovemberUniform@infosec.pub -4 points 2 hours ago (2 children)

Honestly the entirety of Lemmy is far left so for them anything not far left is nazi. If you're not far left, switch to a different platform or don't talk about anything even remotely connected to politics.

[–] Merva@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 hour ago

Tankies are primarily authoritarians, not really far left in any useful sense of that term. And even though they are vocal, they definitely don't constitute "the entirety of Lemmy".

[–] Vikthor@lemmy.world 4 points 1 hour ago

Fuck that, I will gladly use Lemmy to tell tankies to fuck off. And if I get banned on some instances then so be it.

[–] viking@infosec.pub 10 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Well, now you know why sensible admins defederate from this trash. I'd suggest using an app that allows you to block instances from your side and ignore them.

[–] KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

You don’t need an app, it’s a native Lemmy feature.

[–] viking@infosec.pub 2 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

Only since 0.19.1, many instances haven't updated yet.

[–] KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 6 hours ago

That’s a year and a half. If you’re on an instance that is that outdated, you should consider migrating.

[–] sidtirouluca@lemm.ee 13 points 11 hours ago (3 children)

how can i remove hexbear, grad and ml from my lemmy? i use boost app. thx

[–] Lupus@feddit.org 9 points 10 hours ago

In the app you can mute posts from instances, to also get rid of the users you need to use the webpage as someone else mentioned.

To mute the instance in the boost app go on the profile icon, lower right, settings (upper right), "Filters & blocks", there you should see the option "mute instances", type in the instance handle and posts from that instance shouldn't show up anymore.

[–] walktheplank@lemmy.world 6 points 10 hours ago (3 children)

Log into the web version and block the instance. I just did this for lemmy.org yesterday and couldn't find a way to do it through the app. I also use boost.

[–] sidtirouluca@lemm.ee 1 points 7 hours ago

thanks. :)

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[–] khannie@lemmy.world 3 points 10 hours ago

Your Lemmy experience is about to get so much better.

[–] harrys_balzac@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 11 hours ago

Sounds about right for them. Sorry you had to go through that.

[–] NOT_RICK@lemmy.world 62 points 16 hours ago (2 children)

You’re better off, they suck.

[–] Lemminary@lemmy.world 6 points 8 hours ago

I'm reading through the comments and, yeah, they really do. Holy shit what an insufferable bunch, especially that Seasonal_Peace guy.

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[–] deegeese@sopuli.xyz 52 points 16 hours ago (11 children)

What do you expect, it’s HexBear. They make ML look like neoliberals.

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[–] floo@retrolemmy.com 43 points 16 hours ago (16 children)

And now you know why most instances have defeated from hexbear. It’s extremely toxic.

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[–] megopie@lemmy.blahaj.zone 36 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago) (4 children)

Yah, that’s why people call them tankies. Any criticism of the USSR, or even acknowledging why people criticize it, is a banable offense.

The term tankie get’s thrown around a lot, to the point of dilution, but the origin of it comes from western communist who defended the Soviet Union putting down the 1956 Hungarian revolution, notably using T-54/55 tanks. It later came to mean western communist that would ignore or downplay any criticism of the USSR, as “propaganda”. These days it could even be applied more broadly to “People who call them selves left wing or communists but who will defend the actions of any authoritarian regime so long as it is notionally in opposition to the US and it’s allies” IE people who defended Assad and Putin.

I think hexbear fits even a fairly narrow older definition. Which is why most major instances are defederated from them.

[–] rocket_dragon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 21 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

long as it is notionally in opposition to the US and it’s allies

Man, I know I'm preaching to the choir here, but Russia isn't even opposed to the US, as long as the Christian white supremacist fascists are ruling things.

The sheer irony of people playing defense for a white supremacist fascist state and then accusing someone else of being a "fascist sympathizer". Like dawg the call is coming from inside the house.

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[–] Skiluros@sh.itjust.works 20 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago)

Hexbear is a septic tank of degenerates.

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