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[–] roscoe@startrek.website 30 points 9 months ago (1 children)

That's because your instance has blocked hexbear and lemmygrad.

[–] PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca 10 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Maybe. But previously when I engaged with people making this same claim, when they provided their evidence (a link to a hexbear post) and I actually spent the effort to verify it, it was trivially clear that their evidence was wrong, and when I showed that to them, they blew up and blocked me from the entire community (they were a mod).

Since then I've been pretty skeptical of people making this claim.

[–] roscoe@startrek.website 9 points 9 months ago

Don't take my word for it. Even though your instance is defederated from them you can still go to hexbear.net and search locally for posts about Ukraine.

[–] ZombiFrancis@sh.itjust.works 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

If you want context: Hexbear is largely a fanbase of Chapo Trap House. Most people who report on Hexbear usually are unaware of this.

[–] Twelve20two@slrpnk.net 2 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Sorry, what's the context that this provides? I'm honestly not that familiar with the podcast other than it being far left

[–] ZombiFrancis@sh.itjust.works 2 points 9 months ago (2 children)

I often see hexbear users referred to as far-right by those that tend to antagonize.

I've seen many an essayist talk about hexbear and never mention it, so I thought I'd bring it up.

[–] Twelve20two@slrpnk.net 1 points 9 months ago

Ah, thank you.

[–] Twelve20two@slrpnk.net 1 points 9 months ago

Cool, thank you

[–] PugJesus@kbin.social 0 points 9 months ago

The context is that, like the alt-right, they retreat into "H-ha ha, I w-was just trolling" whenever too many eyes are on them.