I used to know a mod of that sub. He is now a cop and officer in the national guard, so that tracks.
And yeah, hexbear has seemed noticeably more hostile since we migrated to Lemmy idk what to make of that.
It's the stupid fucking Active sorting/algorithm. The same 5 posts stay on the front page for 3 days and get hundreds of comments so of course they turn into shit slinging. Those threads feel way too much like reddit threads.
I have been informed that our big beautiful devs are working on a fix for this tho, hopefully it's soon
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