The mods of all the major communities there remove comments criticism Hexbear and usually follow it up with a ban. It’s absolutely clear what is happening and it shouldn’t be allowed to continue.

    • Hubi@feddit.deEnglish
      394·
      8 months ago

      This is less about the instance as a whole. The !worldnews@lemmy.ml mods are notoriously terrible. It’s best to just avoid the community altogether.

    • Lemminary@lemmy.worldEnglish
      292·
      8 months ago

      Lmao I’ve also been banned by rimjob from World News over the stupidest shit. And yes, he did cite some bullshit even thought I was clearly within the rules and arguing in good faith. How dare someone stand their ground against Bruce Almighty from World News! Not surprised.

      • fuckingkangaroos@lemm.eeEnglish
        32·
        8 months ago

        I had a bunch of reasonable posts deleted from World News. I just blocked it but defederating would be way better because then we can rebuild a healthier news community somewhere else.

    • kbal@fedia.io
      1657·
      8 months ago

      While I agree that hexbear generally sucks, they and I do at least have an enemy in common. That ban is not so undeserved as I was led to expect.

      • Klause@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
        5814·
        8 months ago

        Is your common enemy the People? Because Hexbear promotes authoritarianism and genocide denial.

        • kbal@fedia.io
          1544·
          8 months ago

          Tankies say all kinds of stupid things, but even if we grant the thus-far unproven assumption that the person being addressed there is among them, when they’re telling nazis to fuck off that is not an appropriate moment to try and start a pointless fight by asserting that they’re wrong about every single thing.