just several days ago, after 7 posts and at beast 150 comments, i (under !DylanMc6@hexbear.net) got banned from hexbear for “History of repeating US state department talking points, anti-socialism and zionism”.
this ban came after some of my comments were deleted for either “zionism”, “fedposting” or “manufacturing consent” just a week ago.
after my hexbear account got banned, i continued to post stuff on hexbear communities through this account (!@DylanMc6@lemmy.ml) (because lemmy is part of the fediverse which means i can log in to a different lemmy instance with this account), and just earlier today, a couple of my comments (about charlie kirk) that i posted on !slop@hexbear.net were deleted for reasons of “Liberal civility politics”.
hexbear also deleted another comment i posted there where i said “we should segregate clankers from society”, as well as another comment for the reason of “libertarian” simply because i put “left-libertarian”.
left-libertarianism is a form of libertarianism that combines individual freedoms with social equality, and can be used to mean “antiauthoritarianism” - an example of left-libertarianism is libertarian socialism which supports self-governance and workers’ self-management.
although i support left-libertarianism, i find collectivism to be pretty interesting - i think that individuals are worthy of respect and freedoms, but i also think that the individual CANNOT organize alone - collective action is very necessary.
most of me realized that what i said on hexbear can be misunderstood as “us state department talking points, antisocialism and zionism”, and i apologize for that.
on the other hand, part of me is very glad that i got banned from hexbear because obviously, some people there is extremely hardline.
i apologize to any hexbear people reading this, i just had to do a rant here. seriously!
edit: here are the modlogs (for this account and !DylanMc6@hexbear.net):
It’s absurdly stupid to me to just delete and ban viewpoints you don’t agree with. Even if you’re not open to the possibility of changing your perspective on things, how are you going to promote your mindset if you’re incapable of addressing how it’s superior to the other views? If you can’t successfully make that argument, then perhaps you’re wrong? I’d MUCH rather find out the truth of things than refuse to face my errors and wind up being an ass.
I have blocked Hexbear, not due to their opinions but due to their behavior.
They seem to prefer trolling and sarcasm over arguments in my experience.
what do you mean by that?
they mean, ppl who ban/delete can’t have a conversation or discussion to convince others of their views. the instance/community becomes a small circlejerk. even tho it seems to be public, it’s defacto private and will never recruit anyone new for their cause.
at least this instance is public to everyone, regardless of where they stand on the socialist spectrum. seriously!