• daftantimony@lemm.eeOP
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    1 year ago

    It’s an affectionate nickname for Hexbear. You might know that they behave like a bunch of 4channers, throwing and smearing their poop around; and Hexagon=>6 sides (must spell it out clearly, else the smart kids won’t understand)… both combined make 6chan.

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      1 year ago

      can anyone explain why I keep seeing their garbage after attempting to block everything hexbear related? I don’t even mind the occasional tankie that much, but this lot is fucking bonkers.

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        1 year ago

        Lemmy and federation is very buggy. I’m from an instance which hexbear defederated from, but I sometimes still see posts from hexbear when browsing all+new. It seems like it doesn’t always get around to checking defederation when fetching new threads.

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      1 year ago

      behave like a bunch of 4channers,

      4chan isn’t tankies and 4chan isn’t just /pol/ there are plenty of boards on there that have no equivalent anywhere including reddit or lemmy like /lit/. I bet people on hexbear haven’t even read a book in the last decade.

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        I never said anything about political inclinations, it’s the trollish and toxic behaviors that are comparable. You even quote me saying “behave”. Don’t be *a Hexbear please…

        *Thanks for pointing out the typo, dear 6channers, much appreciated :)

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        Of most extremists, Tankies are actually quite active in their reading material… Unfortunately, they don’t read to learn opposing views or even what historically occurred, but instead to bolster themselves in an attempt to appear smarter-than-thou, ‘Look at how many books I’ve read!’ – As if that means anything.