I’m sorry about that happening. I think a lot of hexbear users just comment on every instance as if they’re on hexbear, which has a very unique culture that will definitely seem extremely weird to outsiders. I remember first joining the site after subreddit bans and getting into some arguments over that.

I have been trying to tell other users (I’m just a normal user myself) to beware when they are on other instances and to tone down the “trolling” and similar antics. I hope the new rules around federation, as well as an upcoming emote scaling fix, can facilitate that.

Wish your instance (and other instances we are federated with) the best of luck on the fediverse.