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Its just an instance where tankies can exist in an echo chamber without having to critically think.

If you want you can read some of my comments here and watch these morons make fallacious argument after falacious argument, put words in my mouth, and project some person who makes similarly bad takes which exists inside their head onto me: https://lemmy.today/comment/17304484

Edit: there's also this thread: https://lemmy.today/post/32415724/17304693

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[–] Flickerby@lemm.ee 11 points 3 days ago (2 children)

No guys, Hexbear TOTALLY doesn't brigade threads, whaaaaat?

[–] BrainInABox@lemmy.ml 11 points 3 days ago

I'm shocked that Redditorsstill haven't learnt how Federation works.

Well not that shocked

[–] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 33 points 4 days ago (4 children)

I don't consider Hexbear to be an "echo chamber." A true echo chamber, isolating oneself from views that go against someone's current viewpoints, is only possible if your viewpoint aligns with the dominant views of the society you live in. Communism in the english-speaking internet and world is fringe. Nobody on Hexbear can truly avoid engaging with liberalism as a daily requirement for their existence, everyone has to exist in the outside world and touch grass at some point, be it for work, errands, engaging with friends, family, etc.

What is possible to create an echo chamber around, is blocking off leftist viewpoints. Blocking Hexbear just reduces the chances of yourself running into views that challenge your existing viewpoints. The reason why Hexbear bans liberalism and anti-communist viewpoints is because you can find them anywhere on the English-speaking internet, it gets pushed heavily by mainstream media and permeates discussions even about social reforms like healthcare. Hexbear making a space safe to engage with other communists who just want to hang out doesn't actually close off viewpoints.

Looking into your comments you linked, you threw around words like "authoritarianism" and "technofeudalism," without really describing or understanding each. It comes across as you trying to figure out a way to describe a Socialist system that restricts the rights of capital owners in a negative way, without trying to understand why the overwhelming majority of Chinese citizens support their system and believe it to be generally on the right track. I recommend glancing through this Socialism with Chinese Characteristics Study Guide to see how and why the Chinese system works, and why one would support it.

All in all, I think blocking Hexbear if you don't like echo chambers is actually counter-productive, as you cut yourself off of a large portion of the Leftist userbase on Lemmy, thus restricting what you see to a more narrow subset of generally "progressive liberalism."

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[–] Ram_The_Manparts@hexbear.net 69 points 5 days ago (4 children)

-Complains about "echo chambers"

-Blocks comm because of diverging views

classic

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[–] OldSoulHippie@hexbear.net 26 points 4 days ago
[–] Assian_Candor@hexbear.net 48 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Come back baby we didn't mean it

[–] corgiwithalaptop@hexbear.net 44 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Im sorry for what i said when I was dunking

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[–] Amnesigenic@lemmy.ml 23 points 4 days ago

If you had any self-awareness at all you'd have died of embarassment by now

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