Face the wall refers to shooting squads, which happened often in gulags.
Death threats also goes against Hexbear's ToS, but Admins never act on these violations
this post was submitted on 20 Sep 2025
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It's hexbear. Those of us that understand that's their baseline blocked the instance long ago.
and good riddance!
violent threats have no place on the fediverse
Can’t get good content for here if you do though!
Uh, what? I have only ever used instances that block Hexbear, but I haven't felt that there's no good content. What would you describe I'm missing?
I mean good content for communities like this one that mock them.
Ah, a different "here" 🐳
I’m fairly convinced they allow bots on their instance.
A couple days ago when I was looking at where to join lemmy I saw them and gave it a hard pass. I got no problems with vegans but trying to consider veganism a pillar of leftism is a stretch and requiring content warnings for "carnist products" was a red flag.
First time?