Comment on Hexbear federation megathread
Zuzak@hexbear.net 1 year agoI posted here only after one of our admins said this:
I talked with the lemm.ee admin and he did not mind if hexbear users engaged in that post in a way that was not low-effort. I’ve removed a couple comments from there that were inappropriate. Basically if the meta community does not have a sidebar rule specifying it is for local users only or the post explicitly asks for only local users to comment then hexbear users are free to defend themselves/hexbear. Abiding by the CoC of course.
NuPNuA@lemm.ee 1 year ago
That seems like classics “rules lawyering” to me. “They didn’t specially say we couldn’t do it”.
Zuzak@hexbear.net 1 year ago
I interpreted that to mean that our admin asked and was specifically told we could do it.
NuPNuA@lemm.ee 1 year ago
To be fair, you seem like a pretty level headed person able to have a good faith discussion about the situation so I’m not particularly bothered by yours and similar comments. It seems a lot of your comrades however think it was an invite to come in and slag us off and start the same political arguments they’re starting site wide, and they’re the issue to me. I’ve literally just been called an “insufferable lib” further down by one, I’ve never voted right of the labour party in my life, lol.
Zuzak@hexbear.net 1 year ago
Yes, there is currently some disagreement among our users on how much we should change our, let’s say, idiosyncratic site culture now that we’re federated. Not everyone wanted to federate in the first place, and most of us didn’t really know what to expect. For the past three years, we haven’t had to play by anyone else’s rules, and not everyone is enthused about the prospect. Also, as an explicitly political space, while we have discussions about other things, we don’t have any spaces where veering into politics is unexpected or unwelcome.
Personally, I think federation is the most excitement we’ve had in ages, so I’m in favor of adapting and playing by the rules, because otherwise I think it’s inevitable that we’ll get cut off eventually. But it’s a pretty big change in a pretty short time-frame, so tbh idk what will happen.
oregoncom@hexbear.net 1 year ago
How are you having a “good faith discussion” You start with accusations of rules lawyering? did you not already break the faith with that. Zero self awareness from your type.
oregoncom@hexbear.net 1 year ago
Doing something I was explicitly told I could do is rules lawyering? It seems as though our presence can not be tolerated by your kind no matter what we do. You probably call the police on black people in real life.