I think the point I was making was obvious. You're just being obtuse on purpose.
To spell it out:
Hexbear is going out of its way to avoid becoming an echo chamber by federating with liberal instances. Blocking Hexbear is obviously more echo chamber-like than allowing it, and opposing echo chambers is clearly a nonsense reason to defederate.
I was the only person online last night when it broke. My skin wasn't working for some reason. It also crashed once when I left the end, but it rebooted on its own and I was able to rejoin.
I was somewhere at the spawn town when it stopped working.