Russia doesn’t pay people for that sort of thing, especially not a person like Musk. Instead they extort. Possibly over rare materials.

Anyway I don’t think Russia was part of Musks takeover of twitter, that stemmed from Musks own arrogant stupidity, but they certainly did become one afterwards.

Hexbear is composed of leftists of all shapes and sizes

Well, that’s a big fat lie, unless they literally mean their physical shapes and sizes. Ideologically they are all in lock-step, they can’t be anything else, since a strict rule of indoctrination by ban has always existed on that instance.

They are so eager to prove themselves the assholes that people accuse them of being, and then they whine and cry about instances defederating from them.