~500 comments about our instance and admins in the past week. Talk about needing to touch some grass...
this post was submitted on 10 May 2024
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to be honest: hexbear is an awful instance, and to me absolutely nothing would be lost if we just defederated from them. they are a constant source of drama, are awfully quick with the banhammer if they get criticized, and have cultivated an echo chamber that makes any meaningful discussions with them impossible. comparing them to lemmygrad is more than valid, and noone bats an eye when someone defederates from that cesspool.
i'm really for keeping as many doors as possible open, but the big question is if we really want the door open to an openly authoritarian and for the most part radicalized community. looking at the comments here, i can see that i am not the only one who thinks this way.
you can always refederate after the fact if you want to, It's not like a fusible cpu in an xbox 360 or something lol.
let's also not forget that they tend to infect all other connected instances too, there's a high number on .ml that are basically Hexbear satellite offices where almost every single commenter is a hb user.
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