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 just realized mine is gonna be 5 years old next january too. Didn't realize it had been that long lol. Why do they think lemmy is 2 years old tho? im confused.
Its been 2 years since the reddit migrations so to them thats when lemmy started
Are they seriously so self centered they just assume the site started when they showed up? Thats... wow.
some do think hexbear just suddently appeared one day, so yes they probably think lemmy went live when they migrated here
I wonder if that's why they always have these conspiracy narratives about armies of alts - "can't be other people, must be single bad actors botting"
Others have pointed out that was when the great reddit migration took place, but also I just clicked the link and this person is some Tankie obsessed loser. They are not a serious person.
Syril Karn was an actual threat to Andor tho.
Cm0002 has been shadowboxing lemmy.ml for months to no end other than the annoyance of their fellow radlibs.
Eh, for like a second. Grand scheme of things they're both just know nothing little boot licker tools who haven't the slightest clue how the world is working around them.
That fuck cm000002 and PugJesus are by far the biggest and most annoying trolls on this platform
thats when they joined due to the reddit thing