This. I’ve seen a lot of obnoxious and/or argumentative comments from them, but one that stuck with me was when my first Lemmy instance had to close when Trump was inaugurated due to safety fears.

The first comment to the announcement post was a hexbear user saying something like “Yeah this is why capitalism doesn’t work, America sucks and it needs to go down” – which I do not disagree with, but the post was the admin sharing genuine fears and talking about the logistics of having to move to another state. The user didn’t even say a “I’m sorry you have to close your instance because of this…”, just straight up getting into politics when it wasn’t the main point of the post.

(I will always miss you, possumpat.io; I hope the admin is safe and thriving!)

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