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[–] JaymesRS@literature.cafe 4 points 2 years ago
[–] ikilledtheradiostar@hexbear.net 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Sounds like they unified against you fairly well.

[–] db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] GlitchyDigiBun@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 years ago (27 children)

I've only experienced that from them since I've known them. Not one wants a good faith discussion until you grovel to their fundamentalist tripe. Unity to them means blindly following their half-understood theories of centuries-dead men, and anyone who questions a lick of it gets the 4chan swarm treatment.

[–] GalaxyBrain@hexbear.net 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

You're a dweeb and should quit posting.

[–] GlitchyDigiBun@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 years ago

When they don't have a counterargument, they attack your character. It shows just how strong their foundation of understanding is that a simple debate or differing viewpoint is a dire threat to their entire worldview. It's extremely pathetic tbh.

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[–] Stoneykins@mander.xyz 1 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I'm not sure I really agree with your first point, I think finding a way to find allys in all leftists would be worth it, even if it has a dark history. Things can be better.

But holy shit their reaction was intense. And the idea that their arguments were in defense of left unity was pretty silly... 99% of it was just "anarchists wrong and evil", and there is wild amounts of sectarianism going on just within hexbear that I'm sure lent energy to this.

I respect how you reacted under pressure. I really respect any admin of a website that can show that much restraint when dealing with personal attacks and people you explicitly disagree with.

But yeah the lethality of leftist infighting is maybe a topic that deserves more delicate conversations than memes.

[–] db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Thanks for your kind words. I will admit I did get snappy towards the end of the day as I was getting tired and they had gone to straight up brigading tactics with half a dozen hexbears shitposting random replies, so there wasn't even any point to reply anymore. It had just become a classic pile on situation because I hurt their feelings.

I’m not sure I really agree with your first point, I think finding a way to find allys in all leftists would be worth it, even if it has a dark history. Things can be better.

I'm not here to stop anyone. MLs can be allies when they act like anarchists, which they tend to do when they're not in power. But you have to be cognizant who you're getting in bed with.

[–] ProfessorOwl_PhD@hexbear.net 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

MLs can be allies when they act like anarchists

Uh, sure, and Nazis can be allies if they act like communists. You ever wonder if the reason MLs keep shooting anarchists is because instead of trying to work together the anarchists just insist the MLs become anarchists?

[–] db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

You ever wonder if the reason MLs keep shooting anarchists...

gasp he said the silent part out loud!

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[–] Ram_The_Manparts@hexbear.net 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Do you think that all ML's harbor some innate desire to just start murdering anarchists for no particular reason when given the chance or something?

This weird self-induced paranoia can't be good for you.

[–] db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

No. I think that the praxis of MLs eventually leads to ice axes in heads "for the good of the revolution". I believe you currently never would imagine you would make such an action. I also believe that your hierarchical states will inevitably lead to it

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[–] iie@hexbear.net 0 points 2 years ago (9 children)

anarchists wrong and evil

not only is that not what we said, but db0 actually said that about us

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[–] naevaTheRat@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Hey so I think you're pretty rad person who's obviously investing a lot of effort in setting up cool communities and making tools to keep them safe.

I also think you got unfairly dogpiled in a pretty frustrating way.

But further, it seemed to me you were not trying to de-escalate there. I know the hexbear dogpile can be a bit ridiculous (honestly that place confuses me, I see both the absolute sanest and most unhinged posts coming out of hexbear users) but at this point you are definitely feeding the trolls.

I get that this might be fun for you, but it does use up a lot of bandwidth in the community and I worry it harms the quality of conversations we might be able to have in the future.

Once again I want to be clear that this remark comes from a place of respect, you obviously care about fostering online community and hence this last couple of days is confusing to me.

[–] db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 years ago (6 children)

It's understand the concern. This is just how I deal with this stuff myself. I can absorb a lot off abusive behaviour but I have to blow off some steam somehow, and this is my way.

Unlike what hexbears might say, I'm not trying to goad them. Notice that I never went out of my way to invite their dogpiles.

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[–] GarbageShoot@hexbear.net 0 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

I appreciate your effort to be diplomatic

You might want to reconsider your idea of what they care about, though.

[–] naevaTheRat@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

I'm not sure if you're aware but db0 has been working on CSAM filtering, safe federation lists and similar.

Maybe cut them some slack? That's certainly more work than I put in.

[–] GarbageShoot@hexbear.net 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I didn't remember, though if this is the AI guy then I did read the post. I still need to question the deeply antisocial behavior patterns when it comes to anything having to do with communication, though.

Not that we shouldn't give them credit for whatever good they do, we should.

[–] naevaTheRat@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 years ago

I think you're being a bit hyperbolic generalising deeply antisocial communication habits from a stupid flame war.

[–] bigboig@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 years ago (7 children)

Tankies would never hurt a leftist. Everyone they attack is actually a lib. Or so I've heard

[–] ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 years ago

Yes, of course they're the only real leftists and if you disagree you're a libnazi.

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[–] Utter_Karate@hexbear.net 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I don't get it. Not saying that in a sarcastic way, I literally do not understand if this meme is for or against leftist/anarchist unity. Maybe I'm just old?

[–] db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

This meme in the op isn't about leftist unity at all

[–] Utter_Karate@hexbear.net 1 points 2 years ago

Ok. As I said I truly do not understand what it is trying to say. Is it bad?

[–] Kuori@hexbear.net 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

does the work of the feds by intentionally seeding distrust between leftists

gets called a fed by leftists

"time to fill my diaper about it!"

[–] db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

The fact that you numbskulls don't even realize how significant fedjacketing is and why we don't do it, just says everything one needs to know.

[–] AlpineSteakHouse@hexbear.net 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Thanks for single handily crashing the housing market by allowing millions of hexbear users to live rent free in your head.

[–] Jax@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 years ago

"Millions" 😂

[–] blakeus12@hexbear.net 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

how can you seriously call anybody a smuglord in that convo except you

[–] db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 years ago

"Uh uh, I'm not the smuglord, you're the smuglord!"

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