Greetings gamers and those who wisely abstain,

It has become clear to us that even in the short while we’ve federated, the situation with sh.itholefor.nazis is entirely untenable and we will be defederating immediately. Multiple instances of ableist and homophobic slurs directed at our users, overwhelming litigiousness against even the most innocuous comments by our users, and just a general ethos of reactionary behavior. We’re done and out.

One of the concerns with embracing TC69 thought on site bans with federation is that the user would basically be just hexbear-side hidden and blocked from our comms, free to post reactionary content without the fear of Lenin behind them. That was a silly concern. We will resume our pre-federation policies regarding site bans.

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  • AssortedBiscuits [they/them]
    ·
    1 year ago

    beehaw.org

    lemmy.world

    lemmy.ca

    lemmy.blahaj.zone

    sh.itjust.works

    programming.dev

    lemdit.com

    More to the list.

        • PaX [comrade/them, they/them]
          ·
          1 year ago

          Yeah, pawb.social (furry instance) defederated from us. We didn't even have issues, I think it was preemptive :(

          • Egon [they/them]
            ·
            1 year ago

            Some of their users were big time libs, and one of their admins got tired of being dunked on

        • sicklemode [they/them]
          ·
          1 year ago

          https://defed.xyz/check/hexbear.net

          This was is a tool we used can use to check on this. I'm not sure if it's in working order right now as it gives me a 500 internal error.

          Hold onto it, just in case.

          Edit: It works, just had to remove the "=" from the end of the URL.

        • Erika3sis [she/her, xe/xem]
          ·
          1 year ago

          Oh thank fucking God I'm not the only one who always reads that name as "slurpnik" for some unknown reason

      • NormalC
        ·
        1 year ago

        deleted by creator

    • MCU_H8ER2
      ·
      1 year ago

      deleted by creator

    • Erika3sis [she/her, xe/xem]
      ·
      1 year ago

      Truly, we are seeing the formation of the Neon Genesis Iron Curtain!

      'Tis a terrible shame that we can't just, like, make a second account on a defederated instance, and then use an app such as Liftoff for Lemmy to combine that account's feed with our Hexbear account's feed... Lo, verily all this defederation is condemning us to a lonely fate, isolated in the fediverse. Alas!

      • EmmaGoldman [she/her, comrade/them]
        ·
        1 year ago

        Yeah, I don't understand why people are acting like it's impossible to have or manage two accounts. If you want to fight the posting wars, you can just do that, it's not some impossible task to achieve simply because we're not actively federated with and polluting our own communities with lib shit.

        Like, what's the thought process there, is it a desire to conscript the entire site to be some sort of online revolutionary guard, policing the fediverse and somehow magically infiltrating and taking over other instances?