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ruckblack@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

Fair enough, I appreciate the in-depth response. For the record, I am generally against defederation. I was originally against defederating from exploding-heads, too. But you seemed to be taking a personal interest in maintaining federation with hexbear. I didn’t see a post from admins regarding exploding-heads as a “valuable asset.” Maybe I’m wrong on that. Just seemed like a far cry from our instance defederating from lemmygrad from its inception, due to y’know, the whole radical troll thing. I’m not interested in radical politics in my feed. And I expect most of our users aren’t, either. We still aren’t defederated from hexbear, despite a discussion, followed by a vote thread voting overwhelmingly for it. If a vote thread needs to be instigated by an admin, fine, please do it, most people will vote in the affirmative again. They could refederate at any time if they decide they’d like to “dunk” on us again. I’m not sure why we’re leaving them with the keys. Again, I do appreciate your response, and I appreciate that this is a pain in the ass, thankless job without pay, but the whole hexbear debacle has been pretty frustrating.

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imaqtpie@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

But you seemed to be taking a personal interest in maintaining federation with hexbear. I didn’t see a post from admins regarding exploding-heads as a “valuable asset.” Maybe I’m wrong on that.

No, that’s correct. Exploding heads had about 20 active users at the time while hexbear has 1600, many of whom are extremely active. So I wanted to make an attempt to capture some of that activity and direct it in a more positive direction, for the benefit of Lemmy.

Just seemed like a far cry from our instance defederating from lemmygrad from its inception, due to y’know, the whole radical troll thing.

That was a personal decision by TheDude, I hadn’t even made an account at that point.

They could refederate at any time if they decide they’d like to “dunk” on us again. I’m not sure why we’re leaving them with the keys.

First of all, the fact that they defederated us is a tactical victory for our users. We countered their aggression and they were forced to retreat back to their hole.

Also, I trust the admins of hexbear to not do something like that, partially because it would serve no purpose.

If you think this has been frustrating for you, imagine being me. But I’m still optimistic about Lemmy because our users continue to produce high quality discourse like this thread.

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