I’ve been trying to find a good Marxist instance, but Lemmygrad and Hexbear are widely hated. Why is that? Are there any good leftist instances?

  • Luke@lemmy.ml
    375·
    1 year ago

    Hexbear in particular has been annoying in the past with nonsense comments from users there, and so many unhelpful replies that are just a tiny animated image and nothing else. I’m not even sure they actually are leftist as much as just trolls a lot of times, so I’ve blocked the instance in general so that serious leftist conversations aren’t being drowned out by that nonsense.

    If it looks like someone from hexbear (such as yourself here) is making a real contribution then I’ll reveal that comment and engage. It’s a shame there are so many goofballs on that instance, apparently. Maybe their moderation has improved though?

    • Doubledee [comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
      4011·
      1 year ago

      I think there was a culture shock when federation first hit. We had a ton of ‘engagement’ from people who were using ableist, racist, and transphobic slurs, which brought out strong reactions from our community because we believe its important to shut that stuff down on solidarity with our comrades. And as things got heated I think our willingness to believe people wanted good faith debate eroded.

      We do love a good dunking though, and I think overall the community has a lower threshold for going full pig poop balls on people than I would prefer.

    • spectre [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
      224·
      1 year ago

      Valid criticisms tbh (I even could say the same as a day 0 account lol)

      Moderation isn’t going to “improve” because they generally are fine with everyone being goofballs, so I wouldn’t expect that.

      Some people have the cascade of shitposting and useless emojis coming with their crappy views, but I don’t think our instance is great at propaganda or ROE, which is unfortunate. Would love to see what we could do with a little discipline.

      Also the emojis on every other instance and all mobile apps look more obnoxious because they don’t downscale to their intended resolution.

    • livus@kbin.social
      61·
      1 year ago

      so many unhelpful replies that are just a tiny animated image and nothing else

      Here on kbin I don’t even see that, just text links with names like “pig poop balls”.

    • fred@lemmy.ml
      1·
      1 year ago

      How did you manage to block the instance individually? I thought that feature wasn’t released yet…?

      • Luke@lemmy.ml
        2·
        1 year ago

        I’m using Connect which has the feature to block instances. It shows comments from all users on a blocked instance collapsed behind a spoiler of sorts that can be clicked to reveal if desired.