Some comrades over at Hexbear have organized a donation drive for Palestine and, over the past few weeks, have managed to raise over $1500 for verified Palestinian fundraisers. The fediverse is a good place full of good people.

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    15 days ago

    Many instances defederated from them because a large chunk of the user base was abusive and brigading. To an extent even the worst right wing instances federated couldn’t match.

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      15 days ago

      Lemmy.world defederated from hexbear “pre-emptively” before they even had federation active. To this day, I have never seen this mythical hexbear brigading.

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        15 days ago

        It’s more often the reverse. You’ll see accounts in hexbear-adjacent servers posting “Why Stalin Was Worse Than Hitler” tier content, getting banned, and then coming over to .world to scream and cry about how they’ve been censored by the mean Tankies.

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        15 days ago

        Yes. And people including myself have accounts on other servers. And experienced it personally 3-4 years ago. That you didn’t experience it doesn’t disprove it. There’s a reason many of us chose servers like world as primary, that didn’t federate.

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          15 days ago

          Well, for one, in eg. East Germany, homosexuality was decriminalised before in the West.

          In fascist Italy and Germany, you were sent to a concentration camp.