New account but I’ve been using burner accounts and lurking since the sub got banned. I’ve been seeing all the standard liberal brainworms again for the first time since reddit-logo and everytime it’s an account from another federation. I was tepidly against federation at first but this has been entertaining, like the old days of pigpoop people who wandered into the sub.

I gotta imagine this will only last another week before everyone defederates us, but let’s enjoy it for now.

  • invo_rt [he/him]@hexbear.net
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    39
    ·
    1 year ago

    I hate it here now, ngl. I’ve barely used the site since the federation. Maybe I’ll get used to it or maybe it’s time to move on.

    manhattan

    • SerLava [he/him]@hexbear.net
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      49
      ·
      1 year ago

      Seconding the “local” recommendation! I was really confused by your comment until I realized I was on local the whole time for some reason lol. It’s almost nobody from other instances, like 1-2 comments per big thread. I’m actually gonna go check out All now for some fun hahah

    • Awoo [she/her]@hexbear.net
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      48
      ·
      edit-2
      1 year ago

      Can I ask why? They’ve only been in like a handful of threads and those are only the ones on frontpage of /all/ under “active” sort. Like, 3 or 4 bans per day seems like practically nothing? In the last week there have been 17 bans and 6 of those are ban evaders unrelated to federation. 11 bans in 7 days seems really low impact.

      I’d be pretty sad to see you disappear I like you.

      • SerLava [he/him]@hexbear.net
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        36
        ·
        edit-2
        1 year ago

        Yeah I’ve only seen like 5 or 6 comments from non hexbears in the last few days!

        EDIT: ohhhhhhh my thing defaulted to Local NO WONDER

    • Mindfury [he/him]@hexbear.net
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      45
      ·
      1 year ago

      your default site filter should be Local > Hot (or new)

      that way, when you want to see or participate in dunking, you switch to All > Active but you otherwise don’t cop all the pleb outside memes

      click your username > settings and review

    • Sphere [he/him, they/them]@hexbear.net
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      41
      ·
      1 year ago

      I blocked the memes comm on lemmy.ml and that did wonders for my experience; blocking certain comms can make a huge difference if you don’t want to go as far as switching to Local but can’t stand shit like garbage-tier Reddit memes.

    • FakeNewsForDogs [he/him]@hexbear.net
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      26
      ·
      1 year ago

      Move on to where? The offline world? I’m not super online so I am completely unaware of any leftist forums that are remotely similar to prefederation hexbear. I will say there are limits to the entertainment value of having dumbasses wander into our threads, and sometimes the broken sorting mechanism is a bummer, so I get where you’re coming from. Honestly not sure where one would move on to though.

    • silent_water [she/her]@hexbear.net
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      12
      ·
      1 year ago

      avoid the threads with lots of posts? if you sort by local+hot you basically won’t see them. yeah, there’s the occasional lib who wanders in but it’s not like we’ve been free for that over the last three years.