I’ve noticed users in hexbear go so far to “target bigots” that they’re just assholes to the vast majority of people outside of hexbear.

Sunaurus, I respect your opinions deeply- hexbear is a problem. They are engaging in outright brigading and vote manipulation to push their desired political content to the top of our instance, overwhelming users here.

That being said I don’t want to defederate from them either

So as for hexbear banning Lemm.ee users, it’s vote manipulation. They ban users from different communities they don’t like, then brigade those communities. Except now the banned users can’t see(and therefore downvote) their bullshit.

I have some screenshots from a post on their meta community discussing it

Exhibit A

That’s a yikes brother lol

Present. Using this as I did reddit. It’s like browsing a lot of the smaller subreddits I enjoyed, but all the time.

Downsides are less content, and definite growing pains. I think there are some aspects of the platform severely limiting its growth at this time, and I’m not sure how it’s going to tackle them yet. But I’m along for the ride.

This is actually a super good idea

To address your 2nd point, lemmit.online addresses that in their FAQ, they won’t tone down the posting and suggest defederating if you dislike the automated content

Yeah, I don’t want to defend from hexbear or pirate communities though they’re fun

But would you say that blocking them improved your Lemmy experience?

Thanks for boosting the discussion, I’m curious to see if anyone enjoys these bots as well. Thanks for all your efforts 🙏