i remember his unwillingness to defederate with basically anyone, hard to say if that played a role.
Good and interesting point. And a small anecdote: I was running my community there at the time, and once, after I posted an extract from a book which examined internal disputes between Israelis, we immediately got ‘jumped’ by a gang of toxic HexBear users, rabidly trying to twist the discussion into an overall condemnation of Israel. Now I probably would have agreed with much of what they said in other circumstances, but they were just such obnoxious assholes about the whole thing that we wound up banning most of them.
If Sunaurus had to deal with stuff like that on the regular, then I pity the fool… (famous Mr. T quote)
Good and interesting point. And a small anecdote: I was running my community there at the time, and once, after I posted an extract from a book which examined internal disputes between Israelis, we immediately got ‘jumped’ by a gang of toxic HexBear users, rabidly trying to twist the discussion into an overall condemnation of Israel. Now I probably would have agreed with much of what they said in other circumstances, but they were just such obnoxious assholes about the whole thing that we wound up banning most of them.
If Sunaurus had to deal with stuff like that on the regular, then I pity the fool… (famous Mr. T quote)
i am personally simple person. i see @hexbear.net, i block, no exceptions.
Sometimes they say correct things, but for all the wrong reasons
yeah, and sometimes they say “your parents deserved to be murdered because they owned stuff”, so… 🤷♂️
True true