Why is the solarpunk memes community on this instance filled with such massively anti-left folks?
If I had to wager a guess, it likely more of a backlash against .ml and hexbear more than anything, which are unfortunately the main ambassadors of “leftist” ideology on the fediverse. These instances legitimately make leftists look bad, to the point where it actually feels like it has come all the way back around as self parody.
I’d argue Lemmygrad is worse than .ml
.ml has people on it that aren’t into politics or that discuss other things, due to having been the largest instance when the Reddit api fiasco happened. Many people choose to stay there simply out of laziness or reasons other than ideology.
Lemmygrad and Hexbear are, on the other hand, explicitly political and have certain ideologies as themes which inherently create conflict/discourse with people of other ideologies.
On that note, is slrpnk open registration now? It wasn’t when I joined Lemmy, .ml was the only one I could join at that time.
We focus on quality over quantity, so membership on SLRPNK requires you answer questions and wait for your application to be reviewed by a human. I don’t know how you define open registration, but that’s been our policy for over a year now.
Oh, that’s cool! I think they were fully closed when I tried to join due to the huge influx of users, but it’s a very fair method of admitting new users then!
Legit, hexbear feels like a goddamn 4chan psyop
It is. A big tell is their vernacular. It’s not leftists. It’s someone else pretending to be.
Another one is their interests or hobbies. They do not talk about these topics the same way the people they pretend to be because they are not the people they pretend to be.
I’ve been chronically online enough to be able to get a sense of it. They often slip. Some times it’s so obvious it’s a kid who is trying to copy the more adept ones.
A lot of minority subreddits on reddit are so fake too. It’s 21st century blackface minstrel shows. Easy to dupe casual users. If you’re chronically online long enough you can tell.
ETA: This is conspiratorial as the people who get caught all the time forgetting to switch their alt accounts. Can’t reply to the mod for some reason so I guess I’m done here.
Idk man, i spend a lot of time on tumblr and have for years - and some people have spent so long in the performative space that they’re actually that bad. Arguably they’re not actual leftists, just (badly) aping the behaviour they think is required for approval, but that’s still different from malicious intent
They don’t hide it on their own boards. The right wing spaces. It’s a real thing they do.
The two things we’re talking about are not mutually exclusive. There are people who spent too much time in those “performative space”. They get incited by agitators too. It’s a clusterfuck.
There is no evidence for this and [email protected] is not the space for conspiracies like this.
Hexbear is good and most of the negative things people have to say about it are completely made up
It’s super rare to have a pleasant interaction with hexbear users. And I think thats something they are proud of. To me this just really sad, because how exactly are you spreading your propaganda effectively when everyone just thinks you are annoying?
Also on hexbear users of other instances or other instances as a whole get heavily misrepresented and there seems to be no good faith when interacting with other communities that are not closely aligned in their political stance. (Of course hexbear itself also suffers from lots of misrepresentation, which probably contributes a lot to their in group / out group thinking)
Hexbears don’t really make any attempt to hide the fact that they love trolling and brigading. Even the places where I align with their general ideology, I find them pretty obnoxious and juvenile. Contrary to the other user, I actually struggle to imagine how anyone who has spent any time around them could not find them annoying. The emoji spam alone is pretty cringe, and that’s before you even get to the weird dunning Kruger thing they have going on with their politics.
Slrpnk and lemmy in general is just a bunch of yuppies.
I don’t think you know what that word means.
👏Fucking exactly.
Using the right pronouns to describe the homeless family that they stepped over on their way to the ATM.
Lemmy.world users: “I’m all for equal rights except when it comes to poor people or people being blown to bits by the missiles that pay for my 401K.”
5/10 of the posts of this week are explicitly leftist.
3 are about green politics.
The final 2 are about soil science and wasps.
I see very few right-wing posts there.
Posts - sure. Comments? Not so much. https://slrpnk.net/post/12509233
If that dumbass ragebait meme is an accurate representation of left-wing beliefs then you guys are delusional and shouldn’t be the least bit surprised when people mock you for it
Average sh.itjust.works poster
I’m pretty sure the meme is just a hyperbolic, funny, critique of some undemocratic features of western democracies. It’s not trying to suggest equivalence or invite comparison to third world autocracies or describe in depth the critiques of the world from a leftist point of view. In that sense it rings true.
Does my instance have a crappy reputation?
