We’ve already defederated one tanky instance, and frankly I think I’ve rarely had a positive interaction with Hexbear users. Their defence of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, or of China’s genocide against the Uighur people, is hard enough to stomach. But what prompted me to post this is their commentary in this thread where even without any of the propaganda-based reasons to justify their beliefs, they seem to delight in being rude arseholes to people.
Personally, I don’t think they provide us any real value, no we’d be better off without them, just as we are better off without lemmygrad and exploding-heads.
I would like to believe that there are hexbear users that contribute well to stuff, but I’m yet to see it. 90% of the inflammatory posts I see are from their users and I’m yet to spot a single good contribution. I suspect the whole point of their community is to attract people that delight in the unhappiness of others.
I remember one once saying “we are terminally online and proud of that”. pretty much the sort of people you would expect