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And as can be seen from the behaviour of all the .ml'ers in this thread, you really should block that instance as well. They are the same people, just using different accounts to spread their hateful fascist stupidity.

No guys, Hexbear TOTALLY doesn't brigade threads, whaaaaat?

I blocked the instance a long while ago. Not because of divergent views, but because I didn't find myself stimulated by their overall culture and communication style. Other than that, live and let live, glad they have a spot to discuss what they want.

I don't consider Hexbear to be an "echo chamber." A true echo chamber, isolating oneself from views that go against someone's current viewpoints, is only possible if your viewpoint aligns with the dominant views of the society you live in. Communism in the english-speaking internet and world is fringe. Nobody on Hexbear can truly avoid engaging with liberalism as a daily requirement for their existence, everyone has to exist in the outside world and touch grass at some point, be it for work, errands, engaging with friends, family, etc.

What is possible to create an echo chamber around, is blocking off leftist viewpoints. Blocking Hexbear just reduces the chances of yourself running into views that challenge your existing viewpoints. The reason why Hexbear bans liberalism and anti-communist viewpoints is because you can find them anywhere on the English-speaking internet, it gets pushed heavily by mainstream media and permeates discussions even about social reforms like healthcare. Hexbear making a space safe to engage with other communists who just want to hang out doesn't actually close off viewpoints.

Looking into your comments you linked, you threw around words like "authoritarianism" and "technofeudalism," without really describing or understanding each. It comes across as you trying to figure out a way to describe a Socialist system that restricts the rights of capital owners in a negative way, without trying to understand why the overwhelming majority of Chinese citizens support their system and believe it to be generally on the right track. I recommend glancing through this Socialism with Chinese Characteristics Study Guide to see how and why the Chinese system works, and why one would support it.

All in all, I think blocking Hexbear if you don't like echo chambers is actually counter-productive, as you cut yourself off of a large portion of the Leftist userbase on Lemmy, thus restricting what you see to a more narrow subset of generally "progressive liberalism."

It's so funny how defensive and upset ml users are here

If you had any self-awareness at all you'd have died of embarassment by now

Its just an instance where tankies can exist in an echo chamber without having to critically think.

Buddy, you're the one blocking them. You're not in a position to accuse other people of being in an echo chamber.

watch these morons make fallacious argument after falacious argument

Unlike you, making such sound and well reasoned arguments as "lol no" and "Have you been living under a rock?"

Oh hey! It's the guy who thinks posting videos of Uyghurs is how you dunk on Hexbear, without even knowing what Xinjiang is. Then, without a shred of irony, accuses Hexbear of not critically thinking :o

You might genuinely want to consider how that behaviour is incredibly 'echo chamber'y. Repeating an opinion without knowing the first thing about the actual facts?

Oh no! Did those scary ideas that conflict with US State Dept propaganda hurt your little bitty ego? Did you not get the pat on the head you expected for your bold, approved by the neoliberal order takes you so graciously bestowed upon Hexbear? Lmfao.