Why did lemmy.world block hexbear?

I started on lemmy.world, and volunteered to mod a few communities relevant to my interests. Somebody started swinging at me on a post, sounding pretty super right. I looked at their profile and they were straight on some nazi shit. Literally, espousing nazi talking points.

I also noticed that they were mod on one community I was mod. I linked to relevant content and asked admin to remove said mod, and if they don't it's their perogative but I'd remove myself from mod-ship, no worries. I just don't want to share a space with that person who so openly is on that bullshit. 🤷

I was banned from the entire instance within 10 minutes.

What clowns, good on you for taking a stand. Dope username btw, the movie is going to be lit.
- It's been out for a bit now, it goes hard! I saw them for my birthday last week too, my second time ❤️
  
  Oh and thanks, for the other thing :p
any anticommunist space on the internet trends fascist sooner or later

Because they're incompetent neoliberals who didn't want anything to the left of them to exist because it exposes them as immoral shitbags. What they didn't understand at the time was that when you remove the left from your space you are drastically shifting your community rightwards. Now they have a fascism problem and it looks increasingly like Voat did.

It wasn't really supported by their users either. It was a decision that seemed to entirely come from Antik.

Ovatonwinda says what?

You won't get an answer here that isn't just shameless self-aggrandizement.

The shameless self-aggrandizement is 100% true btw

You won't get an answer here that isn't just shameless self-aggrandizement.

The shameless self-aggrandizement is 100% true btw

hexbear-specter mostly

I am new here, adn I keep wondering how can I display those cool emojis like the one with the bear you just did. I cannot find any options for it.
- I dunno what the right way is but I type a : and then that pops up a like search thing that lets you pick one. Once you pick one it pops this big long string of bullshit into your post that becomes an emoji. So for example if you type :sicko you get a bunch of stuff like
- one trick you can use is to "view source" on a comment to see what the person typed
  
  click the three vertical dots for more options, then click the icon that looks like a document

I posted "fellas is it gay to confederate" and we got instablocked

Almost everyone there is a milquetoast lib, but the admins are closer to fash than lib. So of course they hate us. It’s mutual.

For real. I've begun to associate "@lemmy.world" with the most average r/Politics liberal takes and talking points.
It is scary though because they are by far many more people than us

As a pre-emptive last resort

What do you mean?
- You know how some options should never be considered unless they're proven to be absolutely necessary through things that have happened over an extended duration of time?
  
  They realized that they had to do that last resort choice preemptively.
  
  (If this makes no sense it's because it makes no sense)
- The admin team there had stated in the context of them not banning nazi instances that "banning is a last resort". They banned us pre-emptively.

Here's their post: https://lemmy.world/post/2498330

I have lurked here for a long time, but I just don’t understand the logic here. I read the statement that was linked here, and it just seemed like they were saying that they should be respectful and follow our rules? … Isn’t dismantling propaganda… through “informed rhetoric” a good thing? Why are NATO, the IMF or World Bank automatically good? … Aren’t we just creating a bubble by preemptively blocking a large lemmy instance just because we don’t like their political speech? As far as I can tell they aren’t promoting racism or bigotry. Has lemmy.world preemptively banned nazi or right-wing instances?
- spoiler
  
  they did not preemptively ban nazi instances
Lmao that shit got a thousand comments
They're pretty incompetent admins too. It seems that their instance is down more than it's up. In fact, it was down right now when I tried to open that link. I don't know why anyone stays there. Maybe they don't and those user numbers they have are nowhere near their true active numbers. In a way this sucks for Lemmy because it's the largest instance and people seem to be attracted to that kind of thing, so they get a bad first impression of Lemmy.
- It's down so often because it's the largest instance, and it's perpetually DDOSed among other more vile attacks. Lemmy.ml is federated with them, so I see their announcement and status posts and can definitely confirm the numbers aren't inflated.
I’ll always appreciate that post because it convinced me to leave lemmy.world and subscribe to hexbear communities. I was nodding along to all the quotes from “scary hexbear” in the OP

Because we said NATO bad.

spoiler

nazi arming/training organization
This is really the most succinct and correct answer.

Cause libs can't handle the truth

Balls too big

with shit on top

They didn't want pushback on their narrative on political theory and functionality, using Hexbear's fabricated reputation of being prima facie confrontational and dismissive.

The fascist and right-wing communities within .world still have an underlying strategic and ideological adherence to the supremacy and virtue of the West. Which is why they are not really banned on sight, but are just regulated unless it becomes uncontrollable.

(i.e: right-wingers are just the honest face of white supremacy inherent in believing that the US/Europe should continue to dominate the planet according to that vision. Socialists advocate for equity and justice first, while liberalism's reality and expression prioritizes the sanctity of property.)

tl;dr: Lemmyworld's pre-emptive blocking was to inhibit propaganda and argument changing malleable minds on their instance.

it did us a big favor because everyone that came from there was a worthless piece of libshit

But we won't be able to convert liberals to have more people for the revolution :'(
- posting isn't praxis

They feared our raw, animal sexual energy

They did? Lol liberals are cowards

Cryptofascist admins who are cowards, but I repeat myself.

Cryptofascist

For the longest time, I thought that "cryptofascists" were fascists who were crypto currency fans, since many right-wingers trade them. Today, I finally look it up, and crypto also means hidden, so cryptofascists just means covert fascists haha. I am just leaving this here in case someone made the same mistake I did.

Because nazis don't really inconvenience or threaten bubble-world liberals, but even the existence of actual leftists makes them fear for their treat supply. maybe-later-honey