This is the craziest fucking thing I’ve ever heard.

Tankies are authoritarians. You know what they meant.

Being harassed and called a lib for criticizing their dogpiling doesn’t feel like unity to me.

Because I have moderated communities that live and die by the quality of their discussion and I understand that once you slip too far, you will not come back. Rabid circlejerky instances that promote dogpiling do not facilitate discussion and as a whole are bad for the health of the threadiverse. If people can’t have a reasonable discussion here they will simply leave. That does not mean that I think hexbear should not exist, but they should probably be contained to their own corner of the broader threadiverse.

overly concerned with civility or respectability

I for one do not mind admins that are concerned with civility or respectability. Forums should be about talking to people and I will always prefer to talk to people with civility and respect.

Ada has very poorly handled the response to her “people of NATO” statement in a way that leaves a very bad taste in my mouth regarding the administration of Blåhaj Lemmy. I have noticed that a comment left by a Hexbear user saying “death to Nazis and transphobes” is gone now as well, which if this was an act of a Blåhaj Lemmy administrator, further reflects poorly on Blåhaj Lemmy’s administration.

I really do not think it’s fair to go after Ada about this. I think this is such a weird hill to die on.

This was my favorite album long before I knew what any of those words meant.

Here’s a kind of explanation of the folklore around it: https://talesoftimesforgotten.com/2022/06/03/no-ancient-skythian-enarees-didnt-drink-urine-from-pregnant-mares-as-a-primitive-form-of-hrt/

In the old days it meant drinking pregnant mare urine

I understand the desire to automate this sort of thing and I can understand the utility at first but I think we should absolutely be afraid of that in long term use. Instead I think people should use the built in cross posting function to link conversations from different communities. I think this is a great way to build slow diffusion of communities into the fediverse.

See my post here for an example: https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/217550