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[โ€“] Menachem@midwest.social 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's definitely all of the above.

Hexbear is particularly vexing to me. According to the fediverse observer they're less than a month old and yet have already become one of the most active instances.

[โ€“] honeynut@lemm.ee 8 points 1 year ago

hexbear has existed and been building their userbase for 3 years, but during that time their codebase diverged greatly from mainline lemmy to include in-house tweaks and features which made it not possible to federate, and it's only within the past month that they got everything compatible