They wrote this essay only because a one poweruser left, lol
It was a rather sombering thread, that echoed quite a bit of what I’ve been saying about .ml, the Triad, general toxicity of their Tankie “ideology” for months now.
I know @ptz@dubvee.org was speaking of general toxicity, but the Triad is a huge chunk of it, the culture they create…festers it. They comprise the bulk of the hostility, I’ve personally seen it over and over and over again. All the “Just go back to Reddit” or “just another lib Redditor refugee” comments for someone that dared to have nuance.
Hell, I saw hex users fucking cheering .ee’s shutdown because it was some sort of psyop/CIA/fed/lib/“They didn’t perfectly agree with me” instance. They call feddit.org a “Nazi Zionist” instance for the crime…of not wanting to be arrested and complying with German law…
I haven’t looked to see if they’ve started any “celebratory” posts about Dubvee yet and I also don’t really want to, if they’re there, I already know what they’re going to say in it -_-
Unfortunately, I fear the problem was far worse than I thought.
Ptz speculated that the toxicity has “metastasized”. And you know what? He might be right, it seemed to be a lot better off 2 years ago, now…now I feel we might be losing the battle against the toxicity and I don’t think PieFed will be enough. Complacency has set in
My hope was that with enough instances defederating from .ml and the rest of the Triad, it would be a tad easier to take down toxic Tankies, trolls and their alts. But, few wanted to burn the bridge with the toxic main devs’ instance and now it might be too late. (Cheers to @Illecors@lemmy.cafe and the lemmy.cafe instance, one of the few of note to actually defederate from the entire triad!)
Like ptz said and I fully agree with, this place started with promise 2 years ago, but it appears to be ultimately morphing into 4chan (or like I’ve been saying, Voat 2.0) after all
Oh well, I’ve got some thick ass skin so I’ll probably be here till the end, till the last sane instance shuts down.
I’ll see you there @dessalines@lemmy.ml
/Sadmemerant
Heck, maybe I’ll do a hail Mary and start an instance on a custom fork of lemmy with “normie proof” onboarding while dumping a few hundred in ADs (Maybe even on Reddit itself, HA!). I’ll flood this place with “normies” LMAO
imagine if you had to write a long essay about how this is the end of hexbear everytime a poweruser left
I literally do not visit these people. I do not care about them. They think they are far more important than they actually are.
Why the fuck would I waste my time disagreeing with people that don’t think Israel is all bad 2 years into a genocide when I can be managing communities that get 10million+ visitors per week? Or making stupid tiktoks that sometimes get fucking millions of views in just 24 hours? They’re literally a complete and total waste of time. What impact would I be having by arguing with them every day via alts? Fuck all. We decided to just ban all harry potter nerds on a fucking whim with no real intentions and accidentally caused an internet-wide drama that resulted in mainstream media reporting on “the boycott” (lmao), there’s so many better ways to generate massive impact that don’t involve arguing with debate perverts on servers with a few tens of thousands of members.
They’ve convinced themselves that they’re important when they’re not. The real political theater of operations are the platforms filled with people whose brains haven’t been cooked by propaganda, or in spaces where media heads are using as cultural touchposts to take cues for stories. It’s not fucking liberal instances on lemmy.
I classify my time spent interacting with most of the power users there as a form of self-harm which I try to minimize, generally.
I don’t get the alt fixation with so many users, the first thing that I ran into starting on lemmy was getting accused of being a hexbear alt. I mean I made an account here eventually, but more as a consequence of all the fearmongering than anything else.
Yes exactly.
My time is spent on the people that I can actually turn into socialists.
There is absolutely zero point in spending any time whatsoever in a space full of idiots that will never, ever, ever become socialists. My filter for whether someone is a waste of my time or not is whether they think there’s a genocide happening right now. I immediately stop communicating with anyone that indicates otherwise, they are a total waste of time, most of them are committed liars and the rest are gullible fools.
They now position themselves as being oh-so-opposed to genocide but also extremely concerned about the equivalent ‘genocides’ that all of America’s enemies are doing. Then calling anyone who pushes back on equating those things a fascist tankie.
It’s a total waste of time, none of them are sway-able.