Sorry, best we can do is elect Trump so that project 2025 exports this behavior to all the states. /s :-(
If you are the only one in the entire community doing so, then it wouldn't help all that much - though good on you to be so considerate!:-) But it's not required, and I don't think I'd use the NSFW marker for this, if it were me. You could rather use a hashtag or some such for maximum friendliness? e.g. "[violence]", to allow people to use filtering keywords (for those that use apps that even support that - I don't use apps so I don't know which ones can do that).
Tbf, cruelty isn't the point. For the recipients of the most benefits of conservatives being in charge, things like lower taxes and free handouts to corporations etc. is the point. And to Russia and China, the point of the disinformation warfare is to distract while invading others countries. And to the voters themselves, they get to live in a fantasy dreamland where "God is in charge" (ignoring all those pesky parts of the Bible that say e.g. take care of widows & orphans, the worker deserves their wages, you reap what you sow, etc.).
All the school shootings, all the lunch shamings, all of it, and it's all a by-product of those real goals. Children's actual lives, health , and mental health do not seem to matter in the slightest according to those precepts. 😭
Please discard your "logic", in favor of some vitriolic spew from an angry white man (or woman) that I heard on the radio / saw on the TV. /s
Just bc we can, doesn't mean we should.
We should (no /s), but that doesn't mean that we will.
Democracy requires the good faith of its voting citizenry, e.g. to edumacate themselves.
I think it is a song by Kid Rock (/s btw:-)
Bawitdaba, da bang, da dang diggy diggy. Diggy, said the boogie, said up jump the boogie
T-t-that's de-boner, (like) there's a difference you know!
Edit: something something something, we'll just call them a "pedo" for short:-).
I tried it from 3 different webrowsers, on 3 different instances. As you say, it's likely something with the app:-(. Though notably, this image URL does not end in a standard extension, so perhaps the app may have an improper method to read images that would require that, as the Lemmy code itself used to until recently. But I've only ever used a web UI so I don't know anything else in this regard.
De-boned... for your pleasure.
I would defend anyone's right to be different as well. However, that's not the case here - you said it yourself, you really are missing a huge history between Hexbear.net and... well, everyone else across the Fediverse (and highly ironically, as such they would ruthlessly make fun of you, for speaking without knowing - i.e. you are someone who would defend them, but not vice versa). They poke fun at liberals, conservatives, anyone from the West, etc., and the issue isn't so much their right to exist or be different, but the need for the rest of the Fediverse to spread their message out in the same manner as all the other messages, which are governed by an entirely different set of policies and code of conduct.
I hope you will agree with me that the rights to do a school shooting, or the right to block someone else's access to medical care... is really no "right" at all. That is to say that they can be however they like, but the moment that they federate with the rest of the world, it crosses over into our rights, whether we want to receive what they offer or not, and even more so to promote & share it to our own users.
But don't take my word for it: visit e.g. ChapoTrapHouse or the_dunk_tank and see for yourself. Or here's an example post, where they took a poll on which other instances to deferate from, then promptly ignored the results that said no and defederated from them anyway:-P lemm.ee for instance had 41 votes to keep it and only 4 for it to go, but despite the additional order of magnitude and some passionate responses defending the former (e.g. "But man we should at least stay federated with lemm.ee, that instance's admin has been very reasonable and it hasn't caused much trouble at all; nothing that banning any troublemakers can't fix."), they defederated from it anyway. And the reasons stated to keep it are also informative - basically so that they can proselytize to them, though notice the distinct lack of wanting to converse with them as equals. And that is just one instance, among the very few that will even consider federation with hexbear.net to begin with. Also, to balance that out, read lemm.ee's policy on federation with hexbear.net - notice how 100% polar opposite it is, not just in terms of facts but of behaviors.
There is also programming.dev's response, tldr version: "Hexbear defederated from us so to prevent one way conversations I have added them to our blocklist as well. If the hexbear admins decide to unblock us I can do the same"... followed in the very next post by "It is very likely we will be federating with Hexbear again..." - which despite the fact that that did not end up happening (as of September 8, 2024 I can see hexbear.net on their instances list, make sure to switch the tab at the top to "Blocked Instances"), I want to point out how extremely friendly other instance admins continue to try to be, towards them, though this behavior seems to have never been rewarded in return. And it's not just these two instances - there are so very many, here's another at sh.itjust.works, where they thought long & hard about it (mind you this is an EXTREMELY permissive server, chock-full of reasonable-minded people, which you'll see as/if you read the other posts in that community), and somewhat shockingly seemed ready to do the defederation, but before they could, once again hexbear.net preemptively did it first, thus making the issue moot.
In short, they know exactly how they are - and many people routinely flee from it to spread elsewhere in an attempt to get away from the extremely heavy-handed authoritarian moderation/admin practices. When you tolerate the intolerant though...
If you enjoy LGBTQIA+ content, it is everywhere, e.g. the variety of blahaj's that exist - the most popular of which is https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/, with the highest number of users (and to reveal my own bias, I've never seen anything written from their admin, Ada, that I have not thoroughly enjoyed reading - if I could follow accounts on the Fediverse, this is one of a mere handful of people across the entire world that I think I would do that for:-). Similarly with "different"/odd content - we love being different here on the Fediverse:-) - and again with left-leaning content (in fact people that are not left-leaning are quite rare).
But I advise to steer well clear of bigots. Except of course to learn about the situation - definitely check it out, and then you'll know. I know it looks like shit-posting, especially with the rather poor choice of wording in OP's title, but there truly is an actual history behind all of this. The shit-talking looks casual, but it's not: hexbear has truly earned most of the ire that is directed its way. And they seem okay with that, some even seem proud of it? :-P
I am not a mod - in fact I only heard about it today from Blaze@sopuli.xyz - but there is a neat community called !newtolemmy@lemmy.ca that seems very relevant to add, perhaps containing answers to some people's common questions already.:-)
Freezing point of pure water - but saltwater/brine freezes as a different temperature.