happybadger [he/him]
Slop.::: spoiler spoiler Hexbear, Lemmygrad and Lemmy.ml have been referred to as the "tankie triad" due to their authoritarian communist focus. Hexbear is also notorious for being defederated by most of the biggest Lemmy instances. The instance I'm on, lemmy.zip doesn't go that far but has included it in the default personal block list of new users. My first notable encounter with Hexbear involved their community moderators' power abuse, textbook harassment, and hostility in violation of their own rules from multiple users, including their moderators.
After I announced my new community, it didn't take long for Maeve to repost that to slop@hexbear.net, the same community that fueled the past harassment and brigaded my earlier posts on other subjects, leading to what has every sign of another case of brigading by Hexbear users.
The timeline is as follows:
- On November 5 at 2:49 PM UTC, I posted a link to this new community to
fediverse_vs_disinfo@lemmy.dbzer0.com - On November 5 at 5:57 PM UTC, Hexbear user infoziSporg made a comment in my community. Possibly got there organically. I engaged and tried to anchor it back to the topic of the post.
- On November 5 at 7:48 PM UTC, Maeve posted a link to my dbzer0 post in Hexbear's Slop.
- On November 6 at 8:54 AM UTC,
Collatz_problem@hexbear.netshowed up in my new comm and went straight for derailing, also upvoting infoziSporg's comments. Collatz_problem's comment was posted just two hours after their comment in a Slop thread, where the user is a frequent contributor, suggesting the user probably follows Slop.- On November 6 at 9:17 PM UTC,
Feed_el_Castro@hexbear.netcommented in my dbzer0 thread and upvoted Collatz_problem comment in my comm. The user has a history of recently posting to Slop, suggesting the user may follow Slop. - The upvotes also included one from
culprit@lemmy.ml, who upvoted other Hexbear comments in the thread as well. The user too has a history of posting to Slop.
- On November 6 at 9:17 PM UTC,
culpritus@hexbear.net(the name looks similar to culprit - possibly an alt) also upvoted infoziSporg's earlier comment. The user also has a recent history of posting to Slop. By my memory, this also followed the Slop post.- On November 7 at 6:39 PM UTC
infuziSporg@hexbear.netposted a comment upvoted byBeanisBrain@hexbear.net, who frequents Slop, where their most recent comment is from today. calmblue75@lemmy.mldownvoted my comment posted on November 7 at 4:09 AM UTC. The user is also aware of Slop and posted to it recently.
Though the activity revolved mostly around voting, every single one of the few comments that were posted was a case of the straw man fallacy.
Manipulation is against the rules of this community, while vote manipulation is against the rules of this instance. Most of the evidence has been sent directly to the instance staff. :::
Just don’t have a downvote button
join a federated social media Network
complain when users of other instances come over to yours
call them voting their opinions "brigading"
many such cases
Folks I posted something in a public forum and people I don't like saw it and commented on it. I think this might be fascism
How does anyone have time for this?
Y'all might think brigading isn't serious but it's exactly the sort of behavior that will end up on your permanent record!
Hopefully. I've been infiltrating Lemmy.zip for months and Boris hasn't even made me employee of the month. Hell, even Rose is my account. I should at least get featured in the FSB Monday Funday email for working both sides of a drama post.
i swear to god if any of you tankoes brigades my comment here i will piss and shit out my doodoo ass
workers of the world, is our sinister plot to overtake the rules-based world order through infiltration cooked now?
What? I made a COMMENT? And then had the audacity to UPVOTE SOMEONE ELSE'S?! I've never seen a more clear case of authoritarianism.
Comment? What is that, some kind of Russian word for friend? As a Chinese agent, I'm onto you.
Comment? What is that, some kind of Russian word for friend?
Comment
Communism
And we all know communism is authoritarianism and axiomatically Russianism too.
They hide it in plain sight like we're stupid. Well I was a gifted child motherfukcer.
clearly, and i mean this literally, hexbears are not allowed to interact with her instance. our presence alone is brigading no matter how organically cringe-worthy she's being. our vote and comments are fundamentally unwelcome and i'm convinced there's an agenda to it
I genuinely can't fathom being this upset over intermet comments and dedicating this much time to it
It's what I do whenever I'm not mad to show I'm really not fucking mad at all.
- On November 8 at 8:55:07 GMT,
ComradeSharkfucker@lemmy.mlcommented on my post in Slop
edit: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicholas_I_of_Russia 1855 was when the Czar died. I haven't yet deciphered the 07 part.
Rose I loved you in The Last Jedi
(I have never seen it)
We're lucky this ain't stars war because we'd be the friggin empire.
Too funny to watch a self-professed anti-authoritarian censor speech, ban people, and use their authority to make the change they believe is necessary against their supposed pro-authoritarian opponents - it's as though they are living On Authority in real-time and becoming a full blown tankie right before our very eyes
In order to abide by rule 7 of this community, I have defederated rose and the community from hexbear.
I will bravely fall on my sword like a samurai of the days of olde and delete this post if it means we can keep Rose federated. They're this close to uncovering the plot. They have so many of the clues. A Scooby Doo episode can't end before they unmask the monster and find out it's just some guy.
does it mean she can't see us or is it one way?
rose de-federated, you can de-federate accounts?
Yeah
do you think it'll change her mind?
I don't know
she didn't
I guess it was too obtuse of a joke, i ~~banned~~ defederated her account and removed the community due to violations of hexbear's site code of conduct.
yeah and her reaction, after lying about this post being taken down, was to say of you "are [the russians] struggling with how to frame this?"
To preface, your presence here is also consistent with the pattern established in my OP. Same for the 10 Hexbear and ML upvotes at the time of this writing. However, I’ll reply on this occasion.
On the one hand, it looks like you haven’t been following how friendly Trump has been with Putin. Even the current head of the CIA is a centrist when it comes to Russia. On the other hand, on Hexbear, it’s extremely commonplace to be playing into the hands of various powers. Not only of the likes of Russia, but also of Trump when you’re routinely criticizing “the libs” or Democrats more than the other side. One look at the Hexbear front page on any given day would show that.
Imagine wanting to make a cult of personality just to support centrist dems lmao
DON'T VOTE IN THAT THREAD. IT'S MONITORED. IF YOU ALERT HER SHE WILL SCRAPE YOUR ACCOUNT
Hi Rose! how are you?
Worlds smallest violin plays.
Edit 3: The post has now been removed, [it wasn't] but I managed to save it to the Web Archive prior to that.
Just before the post’s removal, Hexbear re-banned me from their Games community as if I’m at fault, even though I don’t remember interacting with any Hexbear community since their power abuse incident a year ago, also linked in the OP. Just minutes after that, Hexbear admin Carcosa said they’re defederating my account and this community in accordance to their rule 7 (“Do not individually target federated instances’ admins or moderators.”). Are they struggling with how to frame this?
They're bravely fighting off the Russians like a digital Stalingrad.
rose is also, in fash fasion, calling us untermenschen robots for reporting on the torture dungeons of kyiv. i think it may be an actual spy
Too dumb and earnest for a fed. I think, it is an actual lib who fully bought into the propaganda.
It's a distinction without any real difference
i still don't trust her
Yeah, earnest libs will turn you in in a second.
lib is short for liberalism btw rose, the philosophy of private property and capital markets over human rights and democracy even though it makes barren gestures to the last two
infuziSporg@hexbear.net posted a comment upvoted by BeanisBrain@hexbear.net
I consent I consent
I don't
we're being surveilled by anti-authoritarian privacy enthusiasts
as in at this precise moment... predictably
DON'T VOTE IN THAT THREAD. IT'S MONITORED. IF YOU ALERT HER SHE WILL SCRAPE YOUR ACCOUNT
We need to lock down hard and look innocent. Everyone be chill. We're simple American voters.
I am a patriot, I stand for the red white and blue
ⓘ This user is suspected of being a cat. Please report any suspicious behavior.
i know my civil rights and though i won't agree with everyone i'll votetest like hell to defend their right to disagree except for communists
ⓘ This user is suspected of being an American. Please report any unpatriotic behavior.
Who isn't practicing OPSEC? You're going to derail the entire Lemmy.zip infiltration effort when we're almost 60% complete. Rose saw right through us even if they couldn't connect the dots.
edit: I told Boris and showed him the thread.
edit: Boris is PISSED
Hmmm
https://hexbear.net/comment/7593132
Careful, Boris was asking how one brilliant Americansky can undo all of our work. He's going to have MANY questions about Rose. Boris am very mad.
This is just ridiculous, holy shit they can't even accept normal conversation
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Wasn't this a year ago?
That was when the Lemmy.worlders started noticing our infiltration. This is Lemmy.zip, our Q4 assignment. Check the dossier.
Check the dossier.
Does this count as theory? Because if so, I'm not going to read it
