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LA Times reports that Palm Springs bomber had an account on Lemmy.world
(www.latimes.com)
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Hexbear was its own thing for years before federating, that's why it has a stronger site culture than most other instances. It's unapologetically Communist, so those who are hostile to that quickly defederated from them once they started federating.
Lots of instances defederated because of the tendency to brigade. Since Hexbear was already a fairly large instance before federating, it meant it tended to dominate a lot of conversations on other instances. People have similar complaints about .world these days too. But fairly early in the first Reddit exodus, there were a few cases of Hexbear brigading smaller instances, and the Hexbear mods/admins clearly didn’t have any interest in stopping it. So not all of the defederation is purely politically based. Politics may have helped swing the decision, but it certainly wasn’t the only reason.
Yeah. The "it was just because they hate communism" descriptions of hexbear defederation are just making up a story of oppression to explain why it wasn't actually their behavior that got them locked out. People don't hate communism, they hate trolling, tankies (in the literal sense with the Ukraine invasion), and brigading (referencing their fights with the libs and then a bunch of commenters swarming).
I could take or leave the lemmygrad defederation, but hexbear absolutely made its own bed.
I don't really think it's brigading to participate on threads you're federated with. If comments on threads federated with Hexbear are active, Hexbear users see them, and as Hexbear is a large instance, this appears as brigading, but is just a natural element of participation in federation. Some instances are hostile to Communists, so they didn't want a bunch of Communists on every thread, so they defed.