Watch out, you're Taiwanese so you don't exist to those racism fighters 👍

How dare you try to develop your own opinion. Don't you know that white girls on social media get to tell you what to be offended by?

How dare you not let the, probably also white, tankies decide what is and is not racist towards you. /s i hope they all kick rocks

Yeah as far as I know the Winnie the Pooh thing originated in the PRC. Apparently Xi is really upset about it and did a hard ban on it. But it's kinda a Streisand effect kind of thing so places outside of the CCP's control kinda ran with it.

But the hexbears are just conditioned to say it's racist to try to shut down any conversation about it. I mean it's their tyrant using censorship for an extremely petty reason. I probably wouldn't call him Xi the Pooh myself if it weren't for the fact that this tyrant is so butthurt and petty about it. And that's what makes it hilarious. And fuck that guy.

Kind of reminds me of cultural appropriation gone out of hand, where Westerners feel the need to be angry at other Westerners for wearing Japanese Kimonos or Chinese Quipaos.

Yeah the whole cultural appropriation thing is weird. Sure it's wrong to trivialize something that holds a lot cultural or religious significance to others. But people generally like seeing others participate in their culture, and they'll let you know when something is sacred and not for a casual tourist to participate in.

When I went to Peru I bought a shirt from a tourist shop that was the local style. Everyone seemed happy to see that. One older woman said she was happy to see a westerner wearing the local style and invited me to a wedding. Approval all around... except for one guy that said I probably shouldn't be wearing that shirt. It was a white guy from the UK (judging from the accent).

And the kimono thing is really weird. When I was in Kyoto, anyone could dress up as a samurai or a geisha. Not only was it acceptable, the shops would give discounts to people dressed up this way. Because it made things more fun. This may be shocking to some people, but cosplay is fairly popular in Japan. I also saw some dudes in a park cosplaying as American 1950s geasers. Was I offended by this because they were appropriating our culture? Of course not, they seemed to be having fun and nobody dresses that way anymore anyway.

The idea of a blanket stigmatizing of western people having any participation in other cultures seems like it'll be a problem long term. If it's ok for everyone in the world to adopt western culture, but not ok for westerners to adopt anything from anyone else's culture, then western culture spreads and other cultures don't. Seems to me like what happens with colonialism, but this time with good intentions! But intentions doesn't change the result. And if the result is the spread of western culture while preventing the spread of other cultures, seems like a bad result to me.

嗨，難得可以在 Lemmy 上遇到台灣人。相信我，我懂你的心情。我前幾天也被六熊們搞得很煩。什麼新疆人過得很好、習維尼迷因是種族歧視、台灣是中共領土等巴拉巴拉的。

我家外面風好大，雨也好大，你那邊呢？

It's called Whitesplaining and it's actually in the dictionary.

https://www.dictionary.com/browse/whitesplain

"(of a white person) to comment on the minority experience or explain racism to a person of color in a condescending or blaming way..."

I think it's a key giveaway that someone is a narcissist.

Not really westerners. Pretty much the whole US left with their history of fucked-up race relations and cultural penchant for either pussy-footing or waving their dicks around, nothing in between, and a small splattering of leftist from other countries drawn into their bullshit reasoning and inability to see context that is beyond the brim of their burger.

They are so eager to prove themselves the assholes that people accuse them of being, and then they whine and cry about instances defederating from them.

We will convince them to like us by spamming emojis knowing that they will take up the screens of our opponents! That’ll show ‘em

Don't forget the 5-10% of them who aggressively insult OP and anyone else commenting in the thread.

So, the primary reason that happens, and the primary reason I'd vote defederation on them every time, is because their instance has down votes disabled for some forsaken reason. It's not 100% the users fault, it's because a comment is the only mode of response they have available for something they don't agree with. So a negative image macro is their downvote. Due to this, they end up flooding other instances threads and only see a bunch of people who agree with the op of a thread or a post, which of course makes them feel like they need to show their displeasure way what's been posted. Meanwhile we can see the 500 to 9.2k ratio on the racist hot take.

The way our instances are run is just fundamentally incompatible.

Mind that the two admins of Blahaj.zone are trans women, which makes it extra ridiculous.

That whole thing was a shit show and I somehow was able to stumble across each and every single part of it as it happened.

It all happened merely days after hexbear said Blahaj was somehow not safe for their LGBT members, so then having those new accounts pull this was so obvious as where could the users came from.

Umm... They lie about everything actually.

Hexbear was/is a shit show. Then again, I hate politics and idiots with a burning passion. (Grew up in the South with Far right idiots belching brain dead arguments) It's very hostile. I was semi-fine with hostility on Reddit, I'd happily bite and fight. But, I'm honestly trying to have a good experience, so Hexbear is a no-go for me.

And for the inevitable herd of Hexbearians that will no doubt squawk this post to hell: I am a nonbinary, demisexual, melungeon witch, I can't stand racists or bigots or *phobes, I don't care for politics or politicians, but will happily vote for whoever doesn't try to make my existence illegal!

They are like wasps. If you agitate one, you'll get mobbed by countless others. I tried to reason with one yesterday and I'm still getting notifications from random hexbear users coming at me.

It's sad but kind of funny, but mostly annoying.

I'm not sure there was ever any masquerade.

Eh, we'll probably get there. It will probably take a few days ift complaining about it and the admins will probably defederate.

Connect for Lemmy has a block instance feature

What instances would you recommend? I don’t really want to leave mine since I’ve been on it for awhile but if it gets too annoying I might want to

It is possible on kbin and also many lemmy apps.

Defederating is core to the fediverse. Lemmy just uses a shared protocol to exchange content. And as others have said, Kbin has instancr blocking, community/magazine blocking, and user blocking. You could just create an account on a Kbin instance if it's important enough. You still get to see the same things.

It will be a much smaller thing once user based instance blocking is available

Lemmy maintainers admin lemmy.ml and don't want to give users the ability to easily block it all lol

I'm not interested in polarising, divisive, toxic content and I really don't care if it's coming from the left or from the right.

The extremist propaganda has mostly killed the considerable excitement I had about Lemmy.

Why not join another instance that blocks hexbear? I mean that is the advantage of Lemmy, isn't it

You can block instances if you use certain apps. I know connect allows you to block instances.

Thank fucking god, I can't stand these 14 year olds.

Connect for Lemmy (Android app) has an option to block by instance. Now I see that they commented, but by default I don't see the comment.

No, they're worse. They are true believers in their political ideology and that's all they care about.

Halle-fucking-lujah!

Did they defederate or did you defederate? And why?

Really ? How do you know ?

I can't find us in their blocked list, seems like they might've gone back on that decision.

As a left-leaning person that would be nice to believe, but I have seen young teenagers who get a taste of shitty capitalism just run to the other side of the spectrum and become 'communists who know nothing about communism except that it's better than capitalism'.

I think actually building a working system of governance that doesn't concentrate corruptible levels of power in a few hands is hard, and many people lack the patience and intelligence to work out the problem. So they run to 'easy answers' that make them feel morally superior and offer the chance of something different (even if worse), especially when they are young and reactionary.

Its the same way some Bernie fans ran to Trump because they lacked the patience to dismantle the duopoly for real, so they hoped he'd do it somehow. We're all feeling worse off, but at least they got to 'show the democrats, right?

Compelling concecture. I also wonder if there are really groups of people like that (i mean, how do they behave in physical, that must be sort of punks?) -- or if it is part of an orchestrated disruption and possibly false flag. I read it's only about 15 accounts to block if one wanted to get rid of the obnoxious ones.

Have any hints that back it up?
Edit: do not mind, i have read farther down. It also seems to have deviated from the original CTH community, as in "unfriendly take-over", which was even stated by a HB account.

Besides, this helped me to finally understand the confusion about the "liberal" adjective. It's understood differently in USA, from most everywhere else. :-)

Lmao do you actually believe this?

Thanks, I’ll check it out. Thank you for giving a helpful answer instead of spamming emojis

I was gonna mention this. The best part too is that if a user is "defederated" by the app then you can simply click show and then the comment pops up if they are a hexbear user.

I honestly 99 percent of the time have little to no issue with their users but I don't want tankie spam on my instance so it works well.

It’s definitely not just a dozen. Hundreds

I also use sync. And i also use the option to block certain words in titles. If you use this list, your feed gets a lot less toxic. Don't judge me from this list, it works for me and a lot less first world problems.

In sync you can block entire instances, no need to block every single community...

doesn't work for comments though

This kind of thing reminds me of the early 2010s /r/atheism. There's definitely some meaningful discussion to be had, but it quickly got overwhelmed by edgy teenagers and culminated in the infamous "In this moment I am euphoric"" quote and things simmered down.

I expect there's going to be some batshit insane development in this space that'll make things calmer. However looking at the state of the world it might be WW3 making things calmer because most of the edgy teenagers will get drafted /s.

Yep, SJW never defederated from hexbear, hexbear just whitelisted us two days ago so they were the reason why we didn't see them before that.

In your case your instance is defederated from them so you'll never see their content no matter what their instance does.

Yeah lemmy.world defederated them a while back. They defederated dbzero too so I guess you can't read this either.

Connect for Lemmy app has a block instance option.

The problem is that there apparently currently is a limit of 1000 blocks per user. With the inevitable spambots and trolls going to appear over the years it is annoying having to spend a lot of those on these guys.

Most people won't bother doing that, they'll just go back to another social media platform.

Wait how do I do this

Extremist propaganda shouldn't be "part of the deal"

People don’t want to block hexbear because they disagree with them, they want to block that instance because they often act like they’ve got the social skills of a neglected 5-year-old on meth. Further, because that’s who they’ve surrounded themselves with they have convinced themselves it’s normal or even appreciated.

I don’t want to ban them I just want to not see them personally

No one on lemmy can ban anyone on hexbear what are you talking about

Nah fuck fascists and nazis. Hexscists are some of the worst of both.