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Hexbear - Refederation? (lemmy.ca)

submitted 3 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Recently I was asked if we'd be willing to reconsider federation with Hexbear, followed by CARCOSA reaching out to me to see if it was something we'd be open to.

They made a post asking if their community was interested in refederating with us, similarly I'd like the opinion of our local users.

Why refederate?

Hexbear has a decent number of sizable active communities:

These all seem fairly well moderated, giving us access to more diverse posts and viewpoints. A lot of our feed right now is dominated by US centric communities, and it'd be nice to get some more variety.

Why not?

They love trolling and I don't expect them to follow our rules when commenting (primarily "be civil").

Just looking at their thread about us, there's a significant number of immature replies slandering us / Canada. I'm not confident their users will engage in actual discussion in our threads, rather than just showing up to throw out insults and memes.

We can try to handle this by banning users / blocking specific communities, but that's going to increase moderation workload for both admins and mods. Hexbear is self admittedly quick to ban users on their side, but they also don't mind ban evasion - not ideal for us.

So what's next?

This is where we solicit your opinions, how does our community feel?

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Thanks for bringing this to the community instead of immediately making a decision yourselves. It is nice to have the opportunity to be a part of the choice, since it's open as a possibility.

That said, no thank you. Lemmy instance blocking still cannot block both posts and users, which means that even though we can avoid their posts as we wish, we will still be inundated by Hexbear replies on every post. Considering that the comments are quite possibly the worst part of Hexbear, this will result in the same shit-show we had last time. The comments on their refederation post just reassure me that we don't want to be associated with them. I won't shed a tear to be missing out on the 5 extra meme posts on my all page.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Thanks for bringing this to the community instead of immediately making a decision yourselves. It is nice to have the opportunity to be a part of the choice, since it’s open as a possibility.

The community is what makes this happen. IMHO any major decision that impacts all of you, should involve all of you.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Best admin on lemmy. Thanks for all you do, this instance is by far the best!

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago

And nice username, Amos is the boss.