Lemmygrad is happy to welcome you while hexbear is down.
Please remember, however, that we work a bit differently from hexbear. Downvotes are enabled on our instance, and that's probably the biggest thing you'll notice.
Likewise, our rules differ a bit: we are a bit more serious than hexbear and less shitposty, especially outside the dedicated communities (such as memes, genzedong, shitXsay).
Finally, and this is probably the biggest difference, we don't have the same rules about left unity and its discourse - lemmygrad is not 100% ML but leans that way heavily.
We also don't have a rule about disengaging because we promote good faith and responsibility, but of course if someone is being a dick or harassing you you should report them.
In terms of federation we're federated with about the same instances you are, and in terms of emoji we have very few compared to you.
Otherwise I hope you enjoy your time on lemmygrad while Hexbear gets fixed.
Another big difference: you have to subscribe to communities to post in them
You can post without subscribing. Subscribing only shows the Create Post button in the sidebar. However if you go to https://lemmygrad.ml/create_post , you can select any community there even the ones you are not subscribed to.
What do you mean? I can both create posts and comments without being subscribed to them?
Oh you don't have to do that on hexbear? I don't think it's something we can control from the admin interface, maybe through the database.
I don’t think that’s true for any instance I’ve posted on, and I do a little posting.