Exactly that, let’s not turn Lemmy into Mastodon with all of its fragmentation and defederation wars.
Comment on Hexbear federation megathread
gsa4555@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Personally, I would rather see hexbear stay federated. I’ve never run into problems with their users and a few annoying trolls does not define a community. I would be disappointed if this instance starts defederating from instances that don’t break any local or international laws.
oldfart@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Terevos@lemm.ee 1 year ago
FWIW I did not have a good experience with hexbear communities. I had originally subscribed to a few that weren’t particularly political. But apparently they’re all political.
However, my response was to unsubscribe from all hexbear communities.
I could block the instance with the app I’m using, but I haven’t gone that far yet. I didn’t think it was necessary.
So… While I’m personally vehemently opposed to much of the politics hexbear represents, I also don’t think we need to defederate. At least not at this point.
Fibby@lemm.ee 1 year ago
If you dont mind me asking… what hexbear community did you think was non political?
mar_k@hexbear.net 1 year ago
almost completely non-political: c/food, c/diy, c/gardening, c/tabletop, c/hobby, c/fashion, c/travel, c/mycology, c/gamedev, c/ttrpg, c/libre
90% non-political: c/music, c/movies, c/anime, c/earth, c/neurodiverse, c/cars, c/paganism, c/judaism, c/writing
usually non-political: c/games, c/fitness, c/art, c/science, c/philosophy, c/worldbuilding, c/languagelearning, c/vegan, c/poverty_finance
generally half or more non-political: c/technology, c/chat, c/urbanism, c/agriculture, c/maritime, c/finance, c/christianity, c/ama, c/creepy, c/islam
kneel_before_yakub@hexbear.net 1 year ago
Nonpolitical
Terevos@lemm.ee 1 year ago
I thought videos wouldn’t be political. But it’s a lot political, even if the video itself isn’t political. And there were a few others I looked into. But… I’m just going to nope out of all of them.
Fibby@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Well, I think its a good thing you tried to branch out, even if it didn’t work out.
Most the “non political” communities appear explicitly political at first glance to me. Like c/food has posts about the “LGBTQ sandwich” and “cracker cuisine” lol. Its going to be impossible to avoid political takes in an explicitly leftist instance.