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this post was submitted on 30 Jan 2026
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In the admin back end video produced to show the features of the software, these sites were said to be "defaults" by the software creator, and they are prefilled in. You can change them after the fact, this is true, but if you simply spin up the instance and never touch those settings they are defederated. I know this is true, because I am in contact with an admin who manages a PieFed instance that is federated with Hexbear, they had to remove the Hexbear defederation after initial setup.
Dude, I specifically spoke to wjs (one of the main contributors to this project) about this claim - and he examined the code. It doesn't do what you claim it does. That quote is directly from him. Hexbear and Lemmygrad are automatically defederated but if you remove them and them remove all the defederations entirely, it won't just repopulate them with those instances and automatically add lemmy.ml.
Lemmy.ml was never a default in the first place when it comes to defederation. Piefed.social doesn't even defederate lemmy.ml.
I'm telling you that Hexbear.net is on by default, and so is lemmygrad.ml. They both need to be removed from your settings before you can federate with them. There shouldn't be any default instances period.
You should probably re-read what Skavau said. They're talking specifically about lemmy.ml
Ah yeah I see that. It still doesn't change my position on if the system should have defaults.