Early on hexbear really came out swinging and users were basically dunking on people left right and centre in lemmy.ml worldnews so that liberals would post something dumb, be prodded slightly by one or two users, then say something incredibly bad and have several hexbears dunk on them, then because of how active sort works their comments would be pushed higher up in the thread as would the thread into people’s feeds and then they’d get absolutely swarmed at that point.
Yeah, I can see why people who have curated their feed a certain way and have a certain style of browsing schedule (or especially a certain Brand of politics) would see us as this monolithic troll army that came out of nowhere while others would just be kind of baffled about what everyone’s complaints are.
Early on hexbear really came out swinging and users were basically dunking on people left right and centre in lemmy.ml worldnews so that liberals would post something dumb, be prodded slightly by one or two users, then say something incredibly bad and have several hexbears dunk on them, then because of how active sort works their comments would be pushed higher up in the thread as would the thread into people’s feeds and then they’d get absolutely swarmed at that point.
It’s like wasps leaving pheremones on a fresh carcass.
Yeah, I can see why people who have curated their feed a certain way and have a certain style of browsing schedule (or especially a certain Brand of politics) would see us as this monolithic troll army that came out of nowhere while others would just be kind of baffled about what everyone’s complaints are.