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well, at least there will be a positive effect from them for once
AFAIK it's the third such fundraiser from over there
that's genuinely nice
I've never heard of Hexbear. Care to explain?
Many instances defederated from them because a large chunk of the user base was abusive and brigading. To an extent even the worst right wing instances federated couldn't match.
Not disputing your claim, as it doesn't surprise me at all, but I'm curious: What are "the worst right wing instances" ?
I haven't paid enough attention to notice any instances with a consistent and noticeable right-wing lean.
There used to be exploding-heads.com, it was right-wing but not particularly active IIRC
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They are authoritarian left and even though Russia is not a leftist country they will refuse to say a single thing bad about Russia, China, and some will even say nothing is wrong with north Korea. If you search the instance for 'Ukraine' you will see them saying Russia is the good guy in the Ukrainian war. They will say things like authoritarianism doesn't actually exist. I legitimately wonder how many posts are state sponsored lol. There are a lot of them on lemmy.ml as well
Just a week ago I had a conversation with someone that is thinking that Russia is a still a communist country and was arguing if I was sure about the opposite
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It's a leftist instance that's very active and will argue with people that post anticommunist popaganda.
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Good work Hexbear!
Good shit indeed
goddamn this entire thread is annoying:
- yes the hexbears are annoying and create problems
- no they're not just as bad as overt fascists. their hearts are in the right place, as demonstrated by this post
- being a scold when they do something good won't get them to do more good, it will entrench them further into the things they do that are problematic
so good job hexbears. you did something good this week. keep stuff like this going
Thanks for the candid words. It seems that people get more bothered over theoretical ideological points than the results of the theory. I'll be very happy if .world users decide to own hexbear epic style and do a 10 times larger fundraiser for Palestine
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Maybe a good thing they did.
I hope they verified well. There‘s a whole industry of scammers in this sector.
You can check the comments in the linked previous post in which they organized the fundraiser, I believe someone left a tool for verifying the accounts in the comments
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Hexbear has always been really good at supporting fedizens.
Nice
Sounds good, but make sure the money really goes into the hands who needs it the most: the vulnerable rather than those wanting to fight to the death.
Have to add that while zakat and jizya are normal practices in Islam, nonetheless the issue is the charity money is rarely ever accounted properly.
BTW, food not bombs.
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Great news!
Broken clock effect.
At the end of the day, they're still authoritarian bootlickers, and they should not be given any slack because they did one good deed. Fuck Hexbear. They're as evil as MAGA as far as I'm concerned.
havent come across hexbear much so im not really aware of their stances but i think calling a lemmy instance "as evil as MAGA" is kind of a stretch
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