All this federation/defederation drama is nothing but bad faith. Our emotes are too big, bRiGadInG, wishing death to the people of NATO, blah blah blah. Let me ask a question. Why do all these instances that had already defed from lemmygrad chose, for a time, to federate with us despite us being far more active with giant emotes and so on?

It has nothing to do with giant emotes and everything to do with ideology. Lemmygrad's explicit ideology is ML, meaning there's little harm in an instance that doesn't subscribe to ML defedding the instance. "We are X while they are Y, so we are defedding from them due to ideological differences." But Hexbear's party line is left unity, meaning there's a place here for everyone who professes a form of leftism with the caveat that they aren't patsocs or anarcho-Bidenists. They can't openly defed from us due to ideological differences because as liberals, they fancy themselves as part of the left, meaning it would be strange if a so-called progressive instance would defed from a left unity instance due to ideological differences. This is open admittance that they are not actually part of the left. We know that libs are not and will never be part of the left, and they cannot cope with that.

So what happens? They federate with Hexbear for a time, fishing for a nonideological reason to defed from us. This is where the crying about giant emotes comes from. Do you think they would actually care about those giant emotes, a technical issue that would be eventually solved, if we had the same exact ideology as them? Do you think they would actually care about brigading^TM^ if we were just some quirky instance that mostly talks about fish and other sea animals?

This is the same exact energy as a supervisor who writes you up because you were 5 seconds late. If you're cool with your supervisor, you could be half an hour late. If you're not cool with your supervisor, you would be written up even if you were already in the office before your shift but your ass isn't in your assigned seat at your exact shift.

lol, i saw that. they were describing this place as an alt right instance and believed our pronouns were all ironic.

definitely feeds into the trope that liberals are baffled by positions outside the window of their indoctrination and the first impulse of many is to try to cram into one of the two slots that exist in their worldview.

"post-colonial theory"

"is this right wing propaganda?"

I've told you all once, I've told you all a thousand times, "don't post". And what do you all go and do? Ya post. Who'd have thought bad things would happen? I swear.

Update: we're probably not defederating anymore

They have a new post debating defederation, posted in their meta community which only shows posts to blajah users (which I kinda feel like they should've been done in the first place if they wanted a private discussion). Anyways, users in that thread are split about defedding but it seems like ada changed their mind about it since our admins updated some rules.

Blahaj was always going to defed us. From the beginning they were more committed to the red scare stuff than even /r/196 was.

i mentioned this wayyy back in my comment history, but am too lazy to dig it up.

don't sweat it if you end up being the excuse for them. This was all predetermined.

"NOO, PEOPLE ARE COMMENTING ON MY PUBLIC COMMENT ON MY PUBLIC INSTANCE?? NOOOO 👿 DON'T TAG ME EVER AGAIN HOW DARE YOU BRIGADE MY PUBLIC COMMENT I AM A MODERATOR AND WILL BE TREATED WITH RESPECT."

this is how I, a sane person, see this 'incident' or whatever you wanna call it. you should not feel sorry or otherwise for sharing their comment lol.

Your posting is too powerful. They had to change the rules to contain you. The macabrett rule.

I'm pretty frustrated that the admin of the instance thinks we're brigading. An admin should know that we're getting their posts in our feed because we're federated. We are just a big instance and we overwhelm the level of activity they're used to seeing when it comes into our feed.

I am wondering if lemmy sorts content in a way that's causing this situation though. Maybe it considers a post more interesting if it gets more activity than a typical post on their instance. So as soon as it appears on hexbear, the score on the post goes way way up and it gets pinned on hexbear for a long time.