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midnight , (edited )
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Sheesh, there sure are a lot of hexbear users here piling onto anybody with a different opinion

Edit: I went ahead and queried the lemmy database from a federated instance I have access to.

These are the top 3 instances commenting in this specific post at the time of writing (2023-08-25 08:02 UTC):


<span style="color:#323232;">instance   | count
</span><span style="color:#323232;">-------------+-------
</span><span style="color:#323232;">hexbear.net |   205
</span><span style="color:#323232;">lemmy.ml    |   106
</span><span style="color:#323232;">lemm.ee     |    61
</span>

These are the top 3 instances and their comment counts on any post in lemmy.ml/c/unixporn this month at the time of writing:


<span style="color:#323232;">domain    | count
</span><span style="color:#323232;">-------------+-------
</span><span style="color:#323232;">lemmy.ml    |   210
</span><span style="color:#323232;">hexbear.net |   210
</span><span style="color:#323232;">lemm.ee     |   100
</span>

You’re reading that right, hexbear has a whopping FIVE comments in this community that are not part of this post.

For the curious, those 5 comments at the time of writing are:

One of which is especially hilarious as we see a hexbear user that’s been railing on people in this post using the very term they’re condemning here. Strong convictions? Perhaps bandwagoning the hexbear teet? Who knows. Definitely not suspicious 🙄

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