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Defederating from Hexbear.net (startrek.website)

submitted 2 weeks ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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This instance has defederated from hexbear.net for violating our rules against propaganda as outlined in our Terms of Service. If you are unfamiliar, federation means two servers sync and host each other's content. Defederation stops us from syncing their content to our server.

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[+] [email protected] -64 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (43 children)

expect vague answers or examples of individual clueless tankies used to justify the bans of entire instances at best.

defederating & banning from tankies is popular on the lemmyverse and they're making the decision of whom you can & can't talk to on your behalf; whether or not you asked them for it.

if you care about your agency on this social media platform; try switching or joining another instance that treats you like an adult that can make your own decisions.

pick one that doesn't defederate and their attempts to decide on your behalf will become self defeating and you'll still be able to participate here.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 weeks ago (10 children)

I approve when a server defederates from instances that have a large number of bad faith actors. Like strawman arguments, "examples of clueless tankies," attempting to disguise the fact that they are as numerous as they are toxic. Like, "treated like an adult," as an adult I'd like to not read rude and childish nonsense coming out of Hexbear.

If someone would suggest an instance that excludes hexbear, lemmygrad, and .ml I would like that. Lemmy.world is 2/3, that's nice. I assume the instance is only federated with .ml because .ml has some of the bigger communities. Unfortunately the .ml admins are actively participating in delusional thinking and silencing anyone who disagrees. Sounds like deciding for you whom you can and can't talk to, but that must be totally different for some reason.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (2 children)

I think Beehaw.org is. We're 2/3 as well (now). .ml has some communities/users we've removed, but largely speaking .ml users have not caused any issues on our hosted communities, and we feel exposing them to our (generally awesome) communities is the net-positive here. Honestly .world's (lack of) moderation is more actively an issue for our mods, but since they're so big and we're a niche instance we really can't afford to de-federate from them.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)