If you're going to participate using third-party apps that remove basic lemmy features, you have to accept that people will be confused by your ignorance of those features. Pronouns are not a "unique change" by Hexbear, here's what my comment looks like via programming.dev without a third party app
it looks like snowe wasn't being aggressive at all
name-calling is universally considered to be aggressive. "ignorant troll" definitely counts
And getting hate for using "they" is excessive.
it is an extremely common transphobic tactic to de-gender people whose pronouns are easily visible as a plausibly deniable way of attacking them. considering all of us have our pronouns in our names on hexbear, we're going to assume that anyone 'they'ing us is doing it on purpose, which is an entirely reasonable assumption.
and all this argument started because this admin wanted to defend the latest shovelware trash game by the dev of Cars 3: Driven to Win, which is about putting down the revolt of the race of greedy hook-nosed bankers in a setting written by one of the world's most open and notorious transphobes
in short: nah this sucks and defederation from queer instances makes sense
I'd just contact the seller, explain the situation, and offer to send it back. If they say they don't care then just go ahead and format it, or dig through it for fun if you're that kind of person.
not really here to debate about it, this is a closed issue here. the post as is will be removed as soon as a mod notices the racist title