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It's so far off base that a Marxist-Leninist state could reasonably use it as a quick litmus test to determine who needs reeducation and who doesn't. Scoring far from the green zone in any direction implies a hardcore reactionary who likes to do eugenics and drown puppies.

I wish I could time travel back in time to have Stalin take this test just to bring the results back and rub it in liberal's noses when he too is in the green zone.

It really is horrifying. Here's another man made horror beyond comprehension to go along with that: in my senior year of high school I took an AP US government class. At one point the teacher took us all into the computer lab and had us take the political compass test. He told is it was an excellent tool to determine who we should vote for in the coming Democratic and Republican primaries that were more or less all scheduled for just after the majority of the class would turn 18.

He gave us all printed compass results labeled with all of the candidates. I can't remember much about what the specific layout that was in, but I'm certain it was incredibly unhinged as well as poisonous to our developing minds.

The political compass for the most part defines authoritarian as being queerphobic and a racist

The political compass has broken so many people's brains. I love how it thinks being an ML is when you want free healthcare but also want to be racist and homophobic.

edit: It's probably the source of a lot of zoomer misconceptions about the so called tankies, now that I think about.

What the actual fuck is wrong with you? You are posting in a thread made by a trans comrade of ours who is sharing her experience of receiving vile transphobic harassment in her DMs for the crime of existing as a trans person openly on the internet.

Please walk into the sea.

It seems that way, but I'm not sure how accurate that assessment is. By nature, the reactionaries coming in from other instances are going to be the most disruptive and easily visible downside to federation. But as the days go by, I'm seeing less and less full on chuds and proportionately more garden variety liberals as the chuds quickly get themselves banned. It sucks that anyone has to see their posts and comments in the meantime, but expanding the moderation team if feasible should be able to minimize that. Given some more time, I'm sure we'd settle into a happy equilibrium once the worst of the worst have all been banned.

The good faith libs who are persuaded to join Hexbear mostly do so silently. Eventually they assimilate into the site culture and we forget that they were even pipelined in the first place. That sounds about right given our active user count has been continuously increasing since federation.

Concerning the reactionaries, treating them like zoo animals has actually always been in my mind the most effective way to deal with them in the meantime before they catch their inevitable ban. It doesn't really matter what the reactionaries themselves actually think because we're not trying to convince them of anything. Mocking and dog piling them is more for the sake of persuading the many lurkers who end up reading any given thread. One of the best ways to put down a fascist is by playing Minecraft with them. The next best way is to humiliate them back, mock them, and make them look like complete and pathetic losers to any bystanders listening.

I agree that this kind of approach can definitely go wrong. It sucks when the dog pile fails to form, or when the reactionary drops their friendly liberal facade and starts with the slurs, but again, bringing this down to acceptable levels shouldn't be too hard with more moderators and stricter moderation. And I'm sure there are other ways to salvage federation while also keeping our comrades safe. It'd be great if the lemmy devs could give individual users the ability to block any instance or community from their personal feed. Also the ability to mass block all the users of any instance, disabling their ability to ping or DM the Hexbear user doing the blocking, for example. Features like these would give us all the ability to form a microcosm of federation as a whole, with individual users being able to decide exactly what is on their personal allow list. This way users who dislike federation can simply set their feed to local and never have to deal with non-Hexbear users ever again.

At the very least, I'd like to see attempts at something along those lines before we get too hasty and shut off federation. I don't think Hexbear necessarily needs to be isolated for it to be a safe space, I'm also putting consideration into the fact that Hexbear serves to make the rest of the federated instances better by backing up lemmygrad and introducing libs to actual leftist perspectives that they would have never been able to see when they were on reddit.

Btw, how the fuck did we vote no on SJW only for the same vote to be held again for no reason like two weeks later where we voted yes?

I don't think this would work out. Users of other instances are already clamoring to defed from us just for using the all page as it was intended to be used. If we we're to change our federation policy to explicitly raid them once a week, we would unironically actually be brigading. They'd all instantly and permanently defederate from us before we even made it to the second week.

I also think it's pretty bizarre how we've ended up federated with SJW, but not Blajah. Not that there weren't users from Blahaj who had to go, but the difference between them and SJW is astronomical. There is no justifiable reason for SJW to be federated after we just defederated a large LGBT instance for reactionary takes that pale in comparison to those coming out of SJW.

That said, we're definitely not going to end up refederating with Blajah because the instance was just a few days away from deciding to defederate from us before we did it first.

Reopening the pipeline is great, and there are many new comrades who've found their way home to Hexbear thanks to federation. We're also probably making the rest of lemmy better by relentlessly mocking libs and chuds to the point they decide to keep their reprehensible takes to themselves. That doesn't work on all of them, but I do imagine it works more often than we'd think.

But all of this is not worth our trans and other marginalized comrades losing a space that was once almost entirely free of this bullshit. Plausibly the only such space on English speaking internet.

However, I do wonder if there are any other effective measures we can take to protect our trans comrades other than outright defederation. It would be a shame to lose the pipeline if it were possible to do something else about this. Perhaps taking away features from users on non Hexbear/Lemmygrad instances? Maybe it's feasible to remove their ability to DM Hexbear users.

Admins could also work on expanding the mod team to loosen the workload and reduce how much of this disgusting crap any one mod sees, thereby reducing mod burnout and also cleaning out the reactionary filth faster. I'm sure there are many known trustworthy Hexbear users who would be happy to join the mod team to accomplish this. Not only that, maybe we could give all users who have been active on this site for years mod-lite powers to temporarily hide potentially reactionary posts and comments made by users of other instances until an actual moderator can review it.

SJW is probably a lost cause and should be defederated anyway, but I've seen a lot of nice lemm.ee users who I would be sad to see go rather than attempting the above measures.

Earth is a good one if you're only interested in time traveling on your home planet that happens to be Earth. But for a more universal perspective, I suppose the CMBR is the least arbitrary frame among all arbitrary frames

Hahahaha nope.

It's so bad that I'm honestly starting to think KSP2 was just a scam. KSP1 unmodded still has many more features and gameplay mechanics than KSP2 does. With mods, the difference is astronomical. KSP2 has slightly better graphics than unmodded KSP1, but with mods the difference is once again astronomical.

You can make KSP1's graphics look massively better than KSP2 with mods, and even the most graphically taxing mods only require something around a 1070ti. KSP2's recommended graphics card is an RTX 3080, and for all that power you get a shittier looking game and lower frame rates with stutters. That's absolutely disastrous.

In the months following KSP2's release, the daily total playerbase of both KSP1 and KSP2 halved according to steam statistics. A ton of players left KSP1 for KSP2, realized it was garbage, and were so soured by the experience that they never even returned to KSP1. It's almost certain that the game will never have all the promised features because it's most likely not selling well enough to continue development long enough at the very slow pace updates are coming out right now.

Edit: Almost forgot to mention the most comical part of this. After all that, KSP2 in early access costs more than KSP1 completed.