We’ve already defederated one tanky instance, and frankly I think I’ve rarely had a positive interaction with Hexbear users. Their defence of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, or of China’s genocide against the Uighur people, is hard enough to stomach. But what prompted me to post this is their commentary in this thread where even without any of the propaganda-based reasons to justify their beliefs, they seem to delight in being rude arseholes to people.
Personally, I don’t think they provide us any real value, no we’d be better off without them, just as we are better off without lemmygrad and exploding-heads.
Didnt know you could check federation status! Cheers!
I thought one of the examples would be the ‘door hitting’ comment. I didn’t think it was that harsh, but its for sure not useful commentary.
I did see this comment, dripping with a snide sense of superiority, which i think is meant humorously to some degree. But there is a valuable point in the middle of the comment. This is just as an example of a hexbear user providing something of value in that thread.
GarbageShoot [he/him] 31 • Good riddance, Beehaw is terrible. It was maybe the single biggest exporter of concern-trolling about lemmy.ml and to my knowledge still entertains absurdly reactionary comms for no reason (though I haven’t brushed up on my lore in a while). Go make your blue Raddle.
More constructively: Having your “Northern Star” be “intentionally vague” is not a good practice. Having clear rules is a much better way to avoid falling into “what did the mod who reviewed the report feel like doing at the time?” arbitration issues. If you want to serve disenfranchised communities well,* then have that be the foundation and clearly define what that means and why you are doing it.
*My experience with this was that Beehaw was more about first world radlibs patting themselves on the back, but I digress
My blink reaction to these questions is always ‘not a good idea’, the fediverse is small and siloing is a problem i’d not like to see the fediverse wracked with, at least at this early stage.
I don’t know, seems like a big move to defederate. But then again it wouldn’t have to be permanent i suppose? So maybe not such a big move as i first thought?
But as i said above, i hang locally most often, i didn’t even know the pronouns indicators were sarcastic. So i should defer to other peoples thoughts on this one i think.