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[–] [email protected] 49 points 2 years ago (2 children)

The whole epidemic of defederating is mostly because of all the csam issues, no?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 years ago (3 children)

theres also some other drama with tankies and communists as far as I understand. I dont really care about political views of people

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago (2 children)

tbh i have noticed them a lot less in the last couple weeks. maybe they're giving up

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Yeah the hexbear brigades seem to have mysteriously disappeared (or at least decreased) after Facebook shut down the big Chinese troll farm recently

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago (1 children)

What does Facebook have to do with Hexbear?

[–] SpaceCowboy 4 points 2 years ago

Yeah it's usually it's the other way around, troll farm gets knocked of bigger sites they increase activity on smaller sites.

Though it is possible they may have been disrupted by another actor using capabilities beyond what Facebook has once it was identified. Or maybe they were active on both Facebook and Lemmy, but after Facebook shut them down, it wasn't worth keeping it going just for smaller communities like Lemmy.

Or maybe it's just a coincidence. Who knows?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Maybe you just managed to block a lot of them ?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago

i havent blocked anyone

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

Lemmy.nz recently defederated Hexbear, they're running out of instances that will talk to them. .world has also defederated as well.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Wow. What an enlightened centrist take. All views are valid, great take

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago