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Is there a way to block hexbear
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this post was submitted on 03 Sep 2023
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Genuine question, how do you guys decide which instances you want to federate with and which ones not?
Xi Jinping tells us who to fed and defed with
jk, it's a vote
Yes, I know it's a vote, but what's so fundamentally different between the big Lemmy instances that you want to block some and not the others? Are the userbases of those big instances really that different from one another?
im pretty sure when it comes to sjw specifically its down to the @MomoTimeToDue drama, the MeanwhileOnGrad comm with the racist banner, and extreme transphobia from some users (eg a trans person on hexbear was PM'd saying they were mutilating themselves and children)
Gee I just looked up that @MomoTimeToDie@sh.itjust.works, and apparently he has 9 posts on !conservative@sh.itjust.works, with the highest scoring post having a score of -14. (Yes, negative fourteen.) There are only 10 posts in total on that community. Wow.
It's ok.
As someone you'd probably call a leftist, yeah it's a circle jerk on here.
I have a different answer than blakeus12
the two factors are
An ambient sense of how unreceptive the instance is toward us. If the distribution of responses we get is skewed too far toward "I don't give a fuck what you have to say, I'm not reading that, fuck you you disgusting tankie," that's a reason to not federate. And I mean... I'll be the first one to admit hexbears can be annoying and too eager to dunk on people, but on the flip side I also think our views are often misrepresented and demonized, and it's frustrating when people won't even bother to understand what we actually think or why.
If any of our users feel harrassed or unsafe, even if the culprits are a small minority of the instance, we are liable to defederate. And this shouldn't be taken personally! We all know lemmy still has limited mod tools. But we prioritize each other over federation, we're a close-knit community who have been together for years.
No, see, you just don't understand the authoritarian, extremist propaganda! If you'd just read more Lenin, you'd get it! /s