Do you see instances who's main purpose is to represent "people inside the more mainstream American Overton window of mid right to far right" that are even nearly as popular as Hexbear?

If you're browsing all you frequently see posts from Hexbear users. I'm yet to come across a noticable amount of posts from users from an instance which represent the group you mentioned.

(I couldn't even name a single instance that fits that description, because if they exist, they're not nearly as active as Hexbear.)

Toxic people exist on all public instances. But on some they're more common than on others.

[–] Facebones@reddthat.com 20 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah, it's called most of the internet. 🤷

What you're saying then is it's OK to stereotype users and bully them for their beliefs and opinions, then use any response other than quiet submission as proof that they're bad.

Cause all the posts I've seen from it is mundane, and the only times I've ever seen it's users act a fool is in response to everyone screeching at them for not adhering to popular opinion (usually with no coherent point other than "tankie bad durr" whatever a tankie is, I'm assuming a slur for leftists.)

Can I punch you then run around telling everyone what a violent cunt you are when you punch me back? Cause that's what it looks like to me, I've been getting alot of wild claims about hexbear but nobody has any point of reference to back it up though.

[–] Honytawk@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 year ago

People should not be bullied, but opinions and believes are not free of criticism.

I mean, just read the comments on this:

https://hexbear.net/post/618701

https://hexbear.net/post/44995

https://hexbear.net/post/375644

[–] Facebones@reddthat.com 8 points 1 year ago

Yeah, it's called most of the internet. 🤷

What you're saying then is it's OK to stereotype users and bully them for their beliefs and opinions, then use any response other than quiet submission as proof that they're bad.