Hexbear is defederated on most servers
They're defederated from a couple of the larger servers and a few of the smaller ones.
https://federation-checker.vercel.app/
EDIT: It could be that this list is incomplete or something went wonky when they went through their domain drama. Looking around some of the larger servers hexbear.net is on the blocked list, but that isn't being reflected on the tool linked above. Some servers are defederated from either side but certainly not most.
What people are seeing is the action of admins to remove the content from your inboxes. A recent Lemmy update provides admins the ability to ban users and remove their content including DMs. The quicker instances are banning the spam accounts very rapidly, some even with automation. The best thing you can do if you receive spam is to report it so your admins can act.
Editing to add- The most recent build 0.19.11 also removes images sent in DMs on the webui. Apps and cached files may still show the images to some users.
Thanks for all you and the team do for Lemmy. We've updated and everything looks good.
Holy shit this is the first I've heard of Playlet. Giving it a go now and it's already impressive.
I'm just glad it lived up to the hype. My opinion means fuck all and I just like to give you a hard time. Your satisfaction with the device and the experience is way more important mate.
Hahahahaha fucking finally.
Killdozer 2, coming to a government office near you.
Thank you all for the continued work.
Ouch. Best of luck getting it back up and running ASAP.