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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[–] NOT_RICK@lemmy.world 100 points 10 months ago (2 children)

You’re better off, they suck.

[–] miss_demeanour@lemmy.dbzer0.com 30 points 10 months ago

Indeed, nothing has been lost.

[–] Lemminary@lemmy.world 13 points 10 months ago

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

[–] deegeese@sopuli.xyz 81 points 10 months ago (34 children)

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

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[–] megopie@lemmy.blahaj.zone 50 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (10 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 31 points 10 months 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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[–] schwim@lemm.ee 41 points 10 months ago

It sounds like you finally learned about hexbear firsthand and don't have to rely on others' reports on their behavior.

[–] Gsus4@mander.xyz 34 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (3 children)

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

[–] Merva@sh.itjust.works 10 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

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

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[–] viking@infosec.pub 28 points 10 months 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 11 points 10 months ago (2 children)

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

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[–] Skiluros@sh.itjust.works 26 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

Hexbear is a septic tank of degenerates.

[–] pinto@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Oh hey, anti-communist uses nazi words. What a shocker. Screenshotted so you can't delete this.

[–] Skiluros@sh.itjust.works 1 points 21 minutes ago

The word degenerate has a meaning.

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[–] anachronist@midwest.social 25 points 10 months ago (10 children)

Hexbear tankies really are something incredible. I've been around left-wing politics most of my life and in the real world I've met like one or two people actually like them. Difficult to understand where they all came from. I'm thinking maybe it's a r/Pyongyang where it started as a joke and then they started taking it seriously.

[–] AllHailTheSheep@sh.itjust.works 13 points 10 months ago (2 children)

I agree, most of the tankies we're plagued with online simply don't exist in irl leftist spaces, because no one likes them and most people in irl spaces understand that you don't get to call yourself a leftist and support authoritarianism in the same sentence.

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[–] Alpha71@lemmy.world 12 points 10 months ago (2 children)

I’m thinking maybe it’s a r/Pyongyang where it started as a joke and then they started taking it seriously.

I know. The same thing happened with The_Donald. It started out as a meme space. It's where Donnie as "The God Emperor" all started. But then people actually started taking it seriously.

So I guess we have Reddit to blame for the situation that America is in right now.

Thanks Reddit!

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[–] lesserprophet@lemmy.world 24 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Post this over at !meanwhileongrad@sh.itjust.works they love this kind of content.

[–] Rose@lemmy.zip 18 points 10 months ago

Never heard of that, but I'll crosspost. Thanks! 😄

[–] SoftestSapphic@lemmy.world 19 points 10 months ago

It will be a great day when the fediverse defederates from all the tankie instances.

[–] sidtirouluca@lemm.ee 18 points 10 months ago (7 children)

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

[–] Lupus@feddit.org 13 points 10 months 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.

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[–] Hubi@feddit.org 17 points 10 months ago

Do yourself a favor and just block the entire instance from your profile settings. It's irredeemable.

[–] Seasoned_Greetings@lemm.ee 15 points 10 months ago

Getting banned from hexbear is your initiation into the broader world of lemmy. It happens to everyone who isn't a tankie at some point. Wear it with pride

[–] thorhop@sopuli.xyz 11 points 10 months ago (2 children)

...but tankies are fascists.

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