Comment on Why is programming.dev federated with exploding heads?

• masterofballs@exploding-heads.com ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I understand the reasoning but I think it’s not the same situation as lemmygrad, which I feel is a normal instance with an ideological bent.

  Lemmy grad actively denies Genocides. Lemmygrad says that that Tienanmen Square was fabricated by the U.S.

  Lemmygrad consistently host antiwhite racism and then defends it by saying something like it’s not racist because white people aren’t real or something

  Exploding-heads will poke fun at gender dysphoria in two communities, dank memes and dank taco.

  EH is morally superior to lemmygrad in every way.

  Finally,

  You all should be using nostr where admins can’t take your voice away or your right to hear opposing opinions.

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• parpol@programming.dev ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Looks like a typical right wing instance to me. I personally don’t feel like propaganda is enough of a reason to defederate. You have propaganda everywhere, even from official news outlets.

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  • lemann@lemmy.one ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Their interactions in threads were unpleasant, and a small group of them were persistently provoking lemmyworld users.

    If you search exploding-heads you might come across some examples, if they haven’t been nuked from that instance.

    Aside from that, I find Hexbear users really pleasant, and I’ve never seen a lemmygrad user provoke anyone 🤷‍♂️

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  • Double_A@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    The content that occasionally ended up in my All feed was mostly Hate against trans people (I.e. being happy about people’s suicide), or complete nonsense conspiracies.

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• Ategon@programming.dev ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  hexbear split off and has been running their own fork for awhile separate from the rest of lemmy (so they couldnt federate with lemmy instances). They are coming back now though so lemmy instances will start to be able to interact with them soon

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  • JackBruh@lemm.ee ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Hexbear is already federated. They’re fine when interacting with other instances.

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    • Ategon@programming.dev ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Ah yeah just checked and looks like I see can see their communites, didnt realize they already joined in. So yes we are federated with them atm, just if a community hasnt been subscribed to yet by anyone the posts from it wont show up in the feeds

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      • 8ace40@programming.dev ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I can enter a community but I can’t see any posts. For example: programming.dev/c/indigenous@hexbear.net

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    • lukini@beehaw.org ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Not getting what I’ve seen. They filled up 90% of a thread about China/Taiwan with hundreds of comments supporting the CCP. Quite a few were just troll messages, too.

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  • 8ace40@programming.dev ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Thanks for the info.

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