Remembering to look for and ignore folks with that telltale indicator has made the fediverse so much more enjoyable.

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    This is essentially gaslighting. Almost every time I saw a reply that was so out of line toxic was from hexbear. Ex: “disgusting capitalist bootlicker. Kys.” under a post saying we should vote for Biden. I can go find these actual words on the post that was titled “get out and vote!” with an image that said “not voting is a vote for trump” if you want.

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      15 hours ago

      Voting for a genocidal imperialist warmonger isn’t leftist, so it makes sense that leftists oppose that. I’m not gaslighting, you’re kinda proving my point, it’s the leftism that’s the issue.

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        8 hours ago

        The overwhelming majority of the time people have issues with Hexbear, it’s the leftism.

        This is the only thing I am responding to. Almost every comment on the defederation from hexbear thread said it was because of toxicity, not ideology. If a vegan says to someone “kys carnist, crawl into a hole and die,” and gets banned, they didn’t get banned for being vegan.

        https://sh.itjust.works/post/4281207

        For anyone who actually cares to look at all the people discussing their negative experiences with hexbear users.

        Bonus meme: my identical comment made by someone else on the instance: https://sh.itjust.works/comment/2928583

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          Considering the sh.itjust.works user that made that thread in the first place is an incredibly toxic person that runs an anti-communist drama community, is a Zionist, etc, something tells me that the people claiming it’s toxic are ones that had strong political disagreements to begin with.