• lmmarsano@lemmynsfw.comEnglish
    32·
    1 hour ago

    Hexbear.net now at 710$ (Update: it’s now 1921$)

    figure before $

    image shows conventional placement of $ before figure

    Can someone explain selective blindness of where to place the dollar sign ($) when correct examples stare people right in the face?

    • morbidcactus@lemmy.ca
      3·
      52 minutes ago

      Convention is different everywhere, $ value and value $ are both seen in Canada for example, former being more common in English, latter in French

      Like . vs , for decimal notation, people are going to use what they’re familiar with.

    • Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.comOP
      31·
      59 minutes ago

      At least it reflects the way the number is said. How would you “it would cost them dollars 1921”?

  • Lvxferre [he/him]@mander.xyz
    15·
    4 hours ago

    Update: it’s now US$1921.00. Some PP (p_p_822628) is trying to outbid JS (j_s_0e6b87), who has been competing since the start.

  • hddsx@lemmy.ca
    145·
    5 hours ago

    I’m kind of tempted to buy it…

    Edit: you can’t tell me it wouldn’t be funny to host an instance the exact opposite of what hexbear stands for right now at its URL

  • PhilipTheBucket@ponder.cat
    342·
    9 hours ago

    Guys, they already switched to chapo.chat, all you’re doing is emptying your pockets to give to some criminals.

  • Lvxferre [he/him]@mander.xyz
    641·
    10 hours ago

    Relevant to note that every other bid comes from the same bidder, j_s_0e6b87. Here’s what I’m guessing about them:

    • They likely know about Hexbear, since they were bidding on the address right off the bat.
    • They aren’t a domain squatter. A domain squatter would try to minimise the amount of money spent on a domain; and yet they’re bidding too early, too frequently, and values considerably higher than the necessary to be the top bidder.
    • They aren’t using automated tools, since the the times and values between the others’ bids and theirs are too erratic.
    • Either they don’t plan to actually win the bid, OR they have lots of money (to the point that US$710 is pocket change for them) and really, really bad blood against Hexbear.
    • ArxCyberwolf@lemmy.ca
      128·
      5 hours ago

      Hexbear is (was) an instance that’s become infamous for the awful behaviour of its users in other instances in the past. They are mainly authoritarian communists (often known as Tankies) who like to yell at people for having different opinions and especially love to troll.

      To expand on this for those who weren’t around during the days when they were federated with most instances, Hexbear’s users are needlessly hostile towards anyone who disagrees with them, they had a bug that caused their emotes to become oversized on Lemmy which quickly flooded threads when their users spam them, and they have a reputation for brigading threads to “dunk” on people. They also really like to flood threads with graphic images of pigs shitting on their own testicles, because that’s definitely what normal people do.

      It’s worth noting that they don’t federate with other instances to participate in good faith, they do so in order to dunk on people and “dismantle Western propaganda” and “plant the beans of truth in other instances fields” and in general act in bad faith. Worse, their instance admins did little to stop this.

      They were defederated from many instances for good reason, as their behaviour drove away a lot of new users. A lot of Hexbear users have alts on lemmy.ml and midwest.social, so the defederation doesn’t stop their users from continuing to be dickheads.

      And if you’d like some receipts, I have plenty of examples. Best viewed from an instance that federates with Hexbear, so you can see their behaviour for yourself.

      https://lemmy.ca/post/3326347 https://lemm.ee/post/4543536 https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/2017079 https://lemmy.world/post/2498330

      Edit: A tankie already got upset about this post, love to see it! :P

    • Miles O'Brien@startrek.websiteEnglish
      2212·
      55 minutes ago

      An extremely outspoken instance filled with people who simp for fascist dictatorships but ultimately consider themselves communist and some socialists.

      Most would call them “tankies” due to their willful denial of the 198(9) Tiananmen square massacre as “western propaganda” despite non-western sources agreeing it happened outside of China.

      Imagine if super outspoken trump supporters had an instance and spent a lot of time trying to lecture other people about how they’re wrong when nobody spoke to them in the first place, then when presented with facts and logic they would respond with gifs, emojis, and a lot of claims that you’re a CIA front/shill.

      • Cowbee [he/they]@lemmy.ml
        102·
        2 hours ago

        The “June 4th incident” was in 1989, not 1984, and neither Hexbear nor China says it never happened. Hexbear’s stance, and most Marxists in general, on Tian’anmen is that hundreds of protestors and PLA officers were killed in Beijing that day as the PLA advanced towards the square, but that the square itself was evacuated peacefully, which matches leaked US cables and the CPC’s official stance on what it calls the “June 4th incident”. This is a rejection of the commonly reported story of 10,000 people being killed on the square itself, which originated from a British diplomat’s cable. Said diplomat was later confirmed to have evacuated well before.

        I reiterate, Hexbear’s stance isn’t that the massacre didn’t happen, but that Western nations intentionally sensationalize the quantity of deaths and the character of the events. This is also why Western Nations don’t frequently report on the South Korean Gwang-Ju massacre that occured around the same era, where the South Korean millitary murdered thousands of High School and College students protesting against Chun Do-Hwan’s dictatorship. All of what I said is backed up by the Wikipedia page for Tian’anmen Square Protests and Massacre, such as Alan Donald revising his estimate from 10,000 to the low thousands yet BBC continuing to report the 10,000 figure:

        In a disputed cable sent in the aftermath of the events at Tiananmen, British Ambassador Alan Donald initially claimed, based on information from a “good friend” in the State Council of China, that a minimum of 10,000 civilians died,[237] claims which were repeated in a speech by Australian Prime Minister Bob Hawke,[238] but which is an estimated number much higher than other sources provided.[239][240] After the declassification, former student protest leader Feng Congde pointed out that Donald later revised his estimate to 2,700–3,400 deaths, a number closer to, but still much higher than, other estimates.[241]

        You’re also just wrong about what fascism is and what AES states were structured as, so I recommend Blackshirts and Reds.

      • OBJECTION!@lemmy.ml
        32·
        1 hour ago

        1984 massacre 700 gorzillion dead gommunism no iphone Animal Farm vuvuzela.

        Checkmate tankies.

    • Ledivin@lemmy.world
      106·
      6 hours ago

      Specifically authoritarian communists, to be clear. They aren’t fighting for everyone to have what they need, they just want to be leaders of repressed people.

      • SeducingCamel@lemm.ee
        12·
        21 minutes ago

        Lmao someone’s never actually been there. You basically just described the democrat party

        • Ledivin@lemmy.world
          1·
          6 minutes ago

          Awwww, someone went as far as making an alt to attack people instead of defend themselves! It’s almost as if what I said is true and you can’t argue against it, only deflect 🤔

    • Lad@reddthat.com
      1712·
      9 hours ago

      It’s an instance for Communists. Unpopular with the liberal/moderate Lemmy crowd.

      • millie@beehaw.orgEnglish
        249·
        8 hours ago

        It’s unpopular with actual leftists as well. Because it’s a toxic mess.

          • oce 🐆@jlai.lu
            116·
            6 hours ago

            Because leftists usually defend human rights, and the authoritarian regimes defended by some people on Hexbear (but also lemmygrad and ml) tend to attack those human rights when they are in the way of their ideology (not unlike the far right politicians).

            • Cowbee [he/they]@lemmy.ml
              97·
              6 hours ago

              That’s very vague and doesn’t really say anything though. Why should someone listen to your take on it?

              • Lad@reddthat.com
                104·
                5 hours ago

                It’s complete nonsense. Hexbear/lemmygrad/.ml have views that are consistent with pretty much every real life communist party, especially those in the global south.

                If you don’t like communism that’s fine, but these textbook social democrats proclaiming themselves to be the true leftists are a joke. I think they just like the leftist label without having to actually walk the walk.

                • Cowbee [he/they]@lemmy.ml
                  96·
                  5 hours ago

                  I’m aware. The “tankie” instances have stances that are overwhelmingly in line with Marxist orgs and parties worldwide, so the “anti-tankie” users either need to admit to just being anti-Marxist or try to honestly learn more.

              • Snoopy@peculiar.florist
                52·
                5 hours ago

                @Cowbee From what i saw, i don’t see why you define yourself as leftist because your upvotes say otherwise and you didn’t apologize nor tried to amend for it because it wasn’t your. But you upvoted it.

                It was a post where some hexbear account insulted me.

              • oce 🐆@jlai.lu
                31·
                5 hours ago

                Not much more reasons that listening to yours, we are just some pseudonyms sharing opinions on a public forum.

          • EldritchFeminity@lemmy.blahaj.zone
            4·
            5 hours ago

            Pretty sure they mean “actual leftist” as in “not just liberals and moderates.” Because there are plenty of instances with an axe to grind against Hexbear for their bad behavior.

          • millie@beehaw.orgEnglish
            33·
            3 hours ago

            Personally I suspect that Hexbear is inundated with bot farm trolls, but that’s not what I was getting at. I meant that despite what said trolls insist, one does not have to approve of Hexbear to be a leftist. Many leftists (not centrists or liberals, but proper leftists) take issue with Hexbear.

            But yeah, Hexbear also gives zero shits about human rights. They mostly seem to be about breaking up any left-of-center coalitions that they can.

            • Cowbee [he/they]@lemmy.ml
              5·
              3 hours ago

              I haven’t seen any evidence for “bot farm trolls” on Hexbear and I use it, but either way the framing of the statement implies directly that Hexbear aren’t real Leftists, and that if one is a “real” Leftist that they should take issue with Hexbear.