I myself remain conflicted about federation, but I feel like it's a worthwhile experiment that has served as free advertising for Hexbear at the very least

That said, federating with SJW was always a bad idea

I mean…. What you consider fash bashing is just a bunch of Reddit screenshots so be fair with what you call it. Since federating, its posts about how we need to defederate from everything, and Reddit screenshots. I have to assume the ‘what am i doing IRL’ question is rhetorical and you don’t really want a breakdown of my day to day life? My real life doesn’t include any “online”, except this den of iniquity. Im not a very online person in general.

This place has always been pretty insular are you being facetious?

Haven’t some of the members of this place been directly DM’ed and harassed for being trans since federation? I think your wallled utopia statement is a bit inappropriate here. Because you may not have been on the receiving end of harassment does not mean it isn’t happening to others. If you consider a place safe from harassment ‘just vibing’ then ok. I’m against it because i want my trans comrades to have a safe space and i think federation is a bit of a fad. Also, your very first statement isn’t really provable one way or the other so, whatever.

I do tend to find most of the people complaining about Hexbear on the rest of Lemmy tend to be the same few accounts over and over again, it does seem like a relatively small number of people are actually bothered by Hexbear and are just trying to poison the well against it. There's only so much that their empty accusations can do though, if people actually critically examine Hexbear they will notice a distinct lack of all the things that the whiners complain about. The whiner's goal is to make sure no one looks in the first place and defederating again will just help them out the most.

Of course, I am incredibly biased here, I like having you guys around, it's much more fun than when it was just the Grad.