There's something extremely funny about the president of the US looking at what's going on China and saying out loud, "Their economy is a ticking time bomb." This is almost an onion news story.

[–] CatholicSocialist@lemmy.ml -3 points 2 years ago (224 children)

Omfg you people really spam every China related thread on our site huh? Forcing us to endure seeing your annoying asses at every corner, is there no way to block every hexbear user?

[–] temptest@hexbear.net 81 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Disagreeing with you isn't spam.

[+] CatholicSocialist@lemmy.ml -12 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Spamming any thread we post about China is.

[–] temptest@hexbear.net 100 points 2 years ago (2 children)

What makes it spam? We're invited to lemmy.ml, it shows up on our homepage the same as it does yours (probably even higher because instances more likely to downvote or ignore political posts don't link with us atm).

If you meant flooding, it's not that either. We're a big instance (1k users weekly) with a general interest in politics and a historical anti-lurking culture, so we'll be disproportionately active in political threads compared to a general instance like lemmy.ml, just like programming.dev is in tech threads. Are we meant to just not share an opinion because too many other people in the same instance already posted their (different) opinion?

[–] HornyOnMain@hexbear.net 39 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Ngl the anti lurking culture of hexbear has been so good for us being able to fucking bully libs coming in despite there maybe being a "silent majority" of ex-reddit libs who probably outnumber us but never post

[–] Frank@hexbear.net 28 points 2 years ago

Back on Reddit we were like the third most active sub in sheer posting velocity after I think the NBA sub with 2.3 million members. They couldn't keep us off the front page without fucking with the algo. It's one of the main reasons they quarantined us.

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