• the_itsb [she/her, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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    1 year ago

    oh god they mainly post on beehaw, Lemmygrad basically created that community after a bunch of lemmy gusanos raged that their terminal liberalism got absolutely torn to shreds by the effortposting gods.

    I am begging you, Each of You, Any of You, who understand what events this references to please fill me in on them or tell me what to search to read this history.

    I have mentioned before that I was confused by the attitude towards Beehaw around here and I mostly get it now, but this is the missing piece of the puzzle. I didn’t know there was a whole Thing that happened, I thought it was just a vibes mismatch.

    Please, Elder Posters: teach me!

    • short version: well it was in the early months of the ukraine war, and some terminal brained liberals who were there started getting really angry in the news articles. Every news post had 50 or so comments at least with Yogthos and the others (I was there yay im so cool im like the best and smartest) basically predicting how the ukraine war would turn out with lots of sources whos predictions were a mirror image of how the war is turning out now (marxist leninists stay winning). This got some folks really, really mad, so they decided to find and hide in a ‘free speech’ instance, beehaw. The biggest immigration to beehaw were people part of the massively pro-ukraine crowd. They had nazis and turbolibs joining hands and frolicking into the sunset. Beehaw and lemmygrad were basically enemies for a bit, vying for political dominance now that lemmy.ml couldn’t ban them for whitewashing nazis and the like, but Lemmygrad has since grown far beyond such losers.

      It was a collection of events over the course of twoish months, with like a one and a halfish month stalemate period.

      @[email protected] @[email protected] know it better than me prob, i can remember them arguing with the libs

    • GarbageShoot [he/him]@hexbear.net
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      1 year ago

      Considering Beehaw users were constantly, constantly stirring shit on lemmy and elsewhere about defederating with and opposing “tankies” and, iirc, pre-emptively defederated from us, I think the attitude is self-explanatory. They are shitlibs.