Defederating from Hexbear must be one of the least controversial things a Lemmy admin could do.
Federating with Hexbear is the more contentious position. Knowing what I know now, I would not consider using an instance that is federated with Hexbear.
They aren't all that bad honestly. I find lemmyml to actually be worse. Lemmyml has some bad eggs.
Hexbear is weird but in general they tend to be fairly civil. Can't say that for much else regarding tankies.
Edit:
I'm kind of wrong. They reason I said this was that I've seen normal discussion and even helpful comments from some hexbear users. However, it looks like they were just a sliver of civil in the greater hexbear circlejerk.
Blender tutorials are like:
OK you start Blender up, you delete the default cube...
Lemmy installation tutorials are like:
OK you install Lemmy on your server, you defederate from Hexbear...
The shitheads whining about how unfair it is their favorite fascist hangout was defederated are so predictable.
Hey pug, it's been a while since I've used lemmy, but from this post how do you visit the link without leaving SJW?
idk, I just checked through Startrek instance. Using an exclamation mark before a community name can send you through your own instance, but that requires the link poster to do it.
I’m a bit surprised. I thought all major instances had defederated from hexbear like a year ago.
They sure know how to make friends over there.
I checked the other day when discussing wiith @OpenStars@piefed.social
From the top 20 (https://fedidb.org/software/lemmy/)
Federated
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Defederated:
Pretty sure .world has them defederated.
Oh yeah, didn't mention them as I assumed you knew as it's yours
I wouldn't say startrek.website is a major instance anymore. A lot of their usebase migrated to .world's Ten Forward community.
The Federation setup a DMZ with the cardassians!
I'm pretty sure almost no one is using Star Trek website after the drama. This probably won't affect many.
Based.
If we are being honest the interest in startrekwebsite as diminished after the drama that lead everyone to move to ten forward.
Still mildly interesting though
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