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I think it's really fun to federate with places and deride the libs, but I'm not the vulnerable population. I love our reputation as the shitheads on the block.

im pro refederating with lemm.ee and though i know it's probably a pipe dream im also in favour of seeing whether something could be worked out to do like a partial refederation with blahaj zone

As always I'm quite happy for us to federate with other instances freely. We've always done a great job of keeping out the problem-causing users.

More Lemmy tools to regulate that is neat and hopefully means people can feel more confident in Hexbear remaining a safe space while we do so.

I don't think this will end well. .ee has always been an instance with a massive reactionary problem and it hasn't gotten any better. They just recently started hosting a community that was banned from another instance for outright eco-fascism. I get when people have a desire to dunk on nazis, but there's better ways to do that than to invite the fascists into your living room.

I will continue to browse on local and feel contempt for the @s that i see

For anyone's information, main, news, politics, and marxism are not going to switch to local only barring any extenuating circumstances.

Addendum:

Anyone interested in helping these communities become more active? They are at risk of being removed if they remain inactive

List of inactive communities (2month) https://hexbear.net/c/maps https://hexbear.net/c/polyamory https://hexbear.net/c/den https://hexbear.net/c/agriculture https://hexbear.net/c/paganism https://hexbear.net/c/oceania https://hexbear.net/c/maritime https://hexbear.net/c/taylorswift https://hexbear.net/c/mycology https://hexbear.net/c/librehab https://hexbear.net/c/bestofhexbear

On that note what are the rules for dealing with libs and other fascists? Like how far can we go? I caught a ban from reddit years ago for telling fascists to suck lead too many times so I haven't been doing that here, but when fascists come into our space and tell me I should support genocide it's kind of the most appropriate response, IMO.

I don't want to get banned because I "overreacted" to the fascists if we let them back in. And .ee absolutely has them

I think this is a great feature, the more comms I can consolidate under this account the better. Being able to protect specific sub's from brigades while leaving others open is ultimately good for the network as a whole. Private comms are going to be a great edition too. Hopefully this allows more instances to be federated even if it's partial.

I think re federating lemmee would be fine, but only them for now. When private comm get more updates like the ability to choose which instance to block, then i would be open to federation with more big instances.

doesn't hexbear already have private commmunities? they are mentioned here and there. i can't access any of them which i always assumed was due to not being invited or something.

as a trans person, im anti blahaj

i don't want to be subjected to liberal brainworms taking over my siblings and niblings

I say we make every comm private except The Dunk Tank and use it as bait

They'll come in and see us making fun of what they think are totally normal takes and walk right into it

Just wanted to post that while I'm always against federation, I am grateful to the mods and admins here who work so hard to preserve the culture of this site while also being federated

Thank you for the federation chicken