I am not doing a bit, it just has been baffling scrolling Hexbear then suddenly seeing a comment about the marketplace of ideas sorting everything out or whatever, and it's always from someone with Lemmy in their name. They all seem like the Carl Diggler character Felix Biederman used to do, but more on-the-nose.

[–] RedWizard@hexbear.net 14 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Because on their home instance, that's the normal perspective. They wander in here, like a lost dog, thinking it's their backyard, and start barking, expecting to get a chorus of howls in response but instead get told to shut up.

They're not from here, their instance is full of other libs, and lib communities. They're probably browsing their instance's "All" feed and see these posts because someone from their instance has subscribed to !politics@hexbear.net. They have "lemmy" in their username because many of these instances have it in their domain name. lemmy.world, lemmy.ml, lemmy.dbzer0.com, lemmy.ee, etc. When our comments show up in their instance, the names have @hexbear.net on the end RedWizard@hexbear.net . Lemmy is a federated system, that means these sites are all interconnected, but otherwise their own self-contained ecosystem.

[–] TemutheeChallahmet@hexbear.net 7 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Thank you

[–] RedWizard@hexbear.net 5 points 11 months ago

No problem comrade.

[–] frauddogg@lemmygrad.ml 5 points 11 months ago

lemm.ee and sh.itjust.works posters are worse about it, regular lemmy.ml users have an even 50/50 between being on the cusp of getting it and being a liberal nutrag

[–] D61@hexbear.net 4 points 11 months ago

I mean, it makes sense, Hexbear has been around for years and chased away all of the libby-est of libs to the other instances (or back to reddit).

With federation, our instance's posts can be seen by other instances and occasionally some brave soul will engage with it. It can be very jarring.