• Ategon@programming.devM
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    1 year ago

    The instance is currently federated with every instance (including places like lemmygrad and explodingheads) as the current stance is defederation should be a last resort with users being able to choose what they want to see instead

    Exploding heads has some very questionable content though so its status is currently being discussed by the admins

    • 8ace40@programming.dev
      hexagon
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      1 year ago

      I understand the reasoning but I think it's not the same situation as lemmygrad, which I feel is a normal instance with an ideological bent. Exploding heads is just violent propaganda. I hope you defederate.

      What about hexbear? Is programming.dev federated with them? Or are they intentionally defederated with everyone?

      • Ategon@programming.devM
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        1 year ago

        hexbear split off and has been running their own fork for awhile separate from the rest of lemmy (so they couldnt federate with lemmy instances). They are coming back now though so lemmy instances will start to be able to interact with them soon

      • parpol@programming.dev
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        1 year ago

        Looks like a typical right wing instance to me. I personally don't feel like propaganda is enough of a reason to defederate. You have propaganda everywhere, even from official news outlets.

        • 𝒍𝒆𝒎𝒂𝒏𝒏@lemmy.one
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          1 year ago

          Their interactions in threads were unpleasant, and a small group of them were persistently provoking lemmyworld users.

          If you search exploding-heads you might come across some examples, if they haven't been nuked from that instance.

          Aside from that, I find Hexbear users really pleasant, and I've never seen a lemmygrad user provoke anyone 🤷‍♂️

        • Double_A@discuss.tchncs.de
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          1 year ago

          The content that occasionally ended up in my All feed was mostly Hate against trans people (I.e. being happy about people's suicide), or complete nonsense conspiracies.