I was never in favor of federating and I like it even less now that it's led to marginalized members of this community receiving bigoted harassment through DMs.

Ultimately I'll go along with what the majority of the community here decides, but at the very least we apparently need to do something about DM harassment, either by developing the means to restrict messages to other hexbear users, or at the very least the means to turn it off completely.

I have personally never used DMs and the only DMs I recall ever getting were from the old transphobe spam attacks around the start of the site. If I'm not alone in never using DMs, simply letting users turn off DMs could really help.