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Just chiming in because I'm a pretty casual user, but recently my everything feed became flooded with a lot of antagonistic posts. After a day I realized they were all coming from the same instance. Ngl it was incredibly jarring, not enjoyable, and I couldn't even tell what the takes being made were.
"These people actively hate everyone," was the exact vibe I was getting. I'm coming to terms with it but... Damn. As far as I've seen y'all are "big meanies."
The first impression was not good but I'm happy to dig deeper to figure out what your instance is all about.
If there's one thing Hexbear users love doing, it's dunking on libs. We've been building up posting energy for three years ever since r/chapotraphouse got banned. Since there are liberals amongst us again and this time they're on our turf it's been incredibly entertaining to make fun of them. Sometimes it is a bit aggressive I agree but it's also very funny. Those threads, because they're a novelty for us, often get a whole lot of comments and bumped up in the algorithm. What actually happens on the site day-to-day is a hubbub of chatter about being LGBT+, being leftist, talking about farts and pee and trying to be funny, talking about serious topics in the news megathread (which I don't go to very often), talking about anime, supporting each other through tough times and building community, talking with each other and being friendly, and, of course, trains.
I definitely discounted the fact that the algorithm bumps up active threads, and the threads that always come up are memes and dunks. That's really all I saw for my first initial encounters. Like I said, I'm happy to dig deeper and I appreciate you expanding a bit on the nature of your instance. Thanks!
The algorithm is pretty bad, and it probably seems worse because Hexbear doesn't have a downvote button, so while ten users from another instance might downvote you and move on, you'll get ten comments from us