It is probably due to a number of people stopping using their alts after some instance hopping.

Also a few people who came to see how it was, and weren’t attracted enough to become regular visitors.

Curious to see at which number we’ll stabilize.

Next peak will probably happen after either major features release (e.g. exhaustive mod tools allowing reluctant communities to move from Reddit) or the next Reddit fuck up (e.g. removing old.reddit)

Stats on each server: https://lemmy.fediverse.observer/list

      • Commiejones [comrade/them, he/him]@hexbear.net
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        Calling out imperialist running dogs isn’t toxic. Just like being aggressively anti-racist isn’t toxic. If a person upholds capitalism, which is by nature exploitive and anti-egalitarian, they are toxic and deserving of rebuke.

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            if you asked questions in good faith, you’d know that the community is also aggressively welcoming to such people, even when we disagree. but you don’t so you won’t.

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            Those are good questions that you could get good honest answers to if you wanted. Other hexbearians are much more articulate than me.

            We are aggressively welcoming to anyone who’s genuinely just trying to learn. stalin-approval

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            So as long as they don’t ideologically agree with you it’s acceptable to be toxic towards them, because their “wrong ideology” makes them toxic?

            Think about this in the context of, idk, race science or something. Let’s say you have someone who is openly a big fan of Charles Murray, owns a copy of The Bellcurve, gets the whole nine yards. Would you deny that such a person is necessarily toxic?

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                So if they come in swinging about how they “don’t deny” that black people are genetically less intelligent and say that their opposition is either propagandized or propagandists, that would tilt the scales for you?

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                    We might be running into a Nazi Bar, paradox of tolerance type issue here. If you treat him that way, there’s a fair chance that he’s just going to use the opportunity to propagandize to whoever will listen.

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      “insult” sure.

      He effectively called a porcupine spikey.

      What’s funny about hexbear is the users reflexively rise to the fight every single time, they can’t just scroll past.

      Taiwan #1

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        yes, it’s on purpose - we actively discourage lurking and encourage engaging with bad takes. the more you complain about it, the harder we go at it.

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          “bad take” really depends what side of the echo chamber you are on.

          Y’all respond to criticism like kim jong un is standing right behind you lol

          Also we aren’t in hexbear right now

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            obviously whether a take is bad or not depends on your politics. it’s so obvious I’m surprised you’d bother pointing it out.

            Y’all respond to criticism like kim jong un is standing right behind you lol

            this isn’t criticism. it’s just a snide aside.

            Also we aren’t in hexbear right now

            again, obviously.

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              Right, being in a federated instance isn’t lurking. Glad we agree.

              And no I don’t, I’ve had a few meaningful discussing with some true leftists but most of y’all only have a knee jerk reaction available to criticism. You end up pushing near-allies away for lacking your dogmatic devotion, seemingly to xi? As you have a bunch of photos of him saved?

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                As you have a bunch of photos of him saved?

                xi xi

                dogmatic devotion, seemingly to xi?

                che-smile che-smile

                You should come to Hexbear. Have a real look around. Not being a fan of NATO bombing (like Yugoslavia) or puting children in cages at concentration camps at the border, doesn’t mean someone is a dogmatic follower of China. But they are far better that USA, that’s for sure.

                But come to Hexbear, let’s challenge years and years of western indoctrination. And we also have an awesome colletion of emojis! (or, as you call it, “photos”).

                fidel-cool

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        “insult” sure.

        He effectively called a porcupine spikey.

        Wonder how the porcupine got its spikes . . . Must be its authoritarian personality!