Menachem

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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by Menachem@midwest.social to c/main@midwest.social
 

Has anyone else noticed how prevalent Hexbear posters have suddenly become? Maybe sometime last week I noticed nearly every political post had at least one long thread of Hexbear users that do nothing but repeat CCP talking points while waving anyway anything even remotely reliable as Western propaganda. That or getting all excited about trolled libs. The way they tell it, you'd think everything from DW, to Fox, to Propublica, to straight up AP News articles, are all written by the same people.

Not to mention, their info on the Fediverse observer is either straight up wrong or there's some serious botting going on. According to that, the instance is less than a month old, yet somehow they already have one of the largest, most active userbases, along with far and away the most comments of any instance.

Seems to me like Lemmygrad on steroids. Considering we defederated from them, seems like a no-brainer to block Hexbear as well.

So glad this thread could become such a perfect microcosm of why we need to defederate.

[–] Menachem@midwest.social 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

It's definitely all of the above.

Hexbear is particularly vexing to me. According to the fediverse observer they're less than a month old and yet have already become one of the most active instances.

[–] Menachem@midwest.social 6 points 1 year ago

outside of running your own instance, asking your instance's owner to block them, or joining one that already has the offender on the blocklist, no. It's requested a lot though so it's probably on the todo list

[–] Menachem@midwest.social 179 points 1 year ago (18 children)

of course the one person in europe who owns a pickup would park it on the sidewalk

[–] Menachem@midwest.social 4 points 1 year ago

the only restaurant chili with cinnamon is skyline, which is specifically why i dont like it

[–] Menachem@midwest.social 8 points 1 year ago (7 children)

i mean it's spiced differently and usually has beans but the main ingredient is still tomatoes. not that different from having a meat sauce

[–] Menachem@midwest.social 10 points 1 year ago (14 children)

chili spaghetti is extremely normal tho ?

i mean skyline sux and all but like

[–] Menachem@midwest.social 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

Maybe I've just spent too long arguing with aholes on the internet but to me calling someone "friend" comes across as very sarcastic and condescending

Edit, it's like calling someone you don't know "buddy" or "pal"

[–] Menachem@midwest.social 11 points 1 year ago

twitter. thats as deep as it goes. like how they try to get people to put hashtags in their titles despite no one using hashtags to find videos. corporations try not to turn everything into a homogeneous blob challenge: impossible.

it's funny because they tried to do this push a few years ago too where everyone new had an @ and they eventually dropped it because it was dumb. i guess whichever exec thought that was a good idea never actually left

[–] Menachem@midwest.social 2 points 1 year ago

yeah the site wouldnt load for me at the time but it does now

[–] Menachem@midwest.social 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I bet we fall just outside the top 10. Seems pretty busy here to me, plus our LOTR memes make top upvoted pretty frequently. Honestly I'm wondering if the user distribution might be pretty dang good below the top 5 servers or so; 234k could be a serious underestimation of the actual active userbase if the next 20 servers all have 1k+

[–] Menachem@midwest.social 27 points 1 year ago (2 children)

idk, im surprised it took this long. there's a huge variety of admin teams with varying degrees of security awareness and it's been over a month since the first big influx of users started. it'll happen again too and probably not before too long

[–] Menachem@midwest.social 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Unless you actually somehow think this was a genuine misunderstanding of the test directions, then they were clear and the student provided useless answers on purpose.

Getting points is a reward for giving right answers. If the student wants to play language games on his math exam, let em fuck around and find out. But they do have to find out. Literally all I've suggested is making the student demonstrate actual understanding. Thinking even that is somehow going too far is absolutely ludicrous.

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