Hello Users of Hexbear I wanted to have a featured post discussing the next steps for federation. We have discussed this at length among the mod team, and it is pretty much evenly split between federating based on a "block-list" or federating based on an "allow-list". While the mod team slightly skewed in favor of federating using a block-list, meaning that any instance not specifically blocked will be able to link with hexbear.net, we will be starting with an allow-list.
What this means is that only instances specifically on our allow-list will be able to link with us, there are a few reasons for this. We wanted to slowly integrate into the fediverse to see what it would mean for hexbear.net's culture as well as how we fit into the wider fediverse. We also wanted to minimize the instances have not blocked threads, or does not block the reactionary/fash/pedo instances.
I was honestly suprised to discover that most lemmy instances block lemmygrad.ml but do not block the reactionary/pedo instances, sad.
Here is a tenative list of what our allow-list would look like: lemmy.world/instances , https://possumpat.io/instances , https://lemmy.ml/instances , https://sopuli.xyz/instances , https://discuss.tchncs.de/instances , https://lemmygrad.ml/instances , https://mander.xyz/instances , https://lemm.ee/instances , toots.matapocos.dog
a block-list would be massive and exhaustive to ensure that we do not federate with any pornographic, reactionary, fascist, racist, homophobic, transphobic, or csam-adjacent instances.
We will be creating a pinned post in c/hexbear where additional instances can be nominated for addition to the allow-list. https://hexbear.net/post/277506
Please see these previous posts by Nagarjuna regarding federation: https://hexbear.net/post/273407 and https://hexbear.net/post/273404
If you would like to officially put down your opinion on federation, please make a comment with 🧱 if you'd like to federate based on a block-list, a ✅ if you'd like to federate based on an allow-list, or a 🚫 if you do not with to federate at all, this is a temprature check and not a binding vote. Thank you and as usual off-topic comments will be removed.
Thank you for the feedback and apologies for the original emojis chosen, the final count is 58 🧱 111 ✅ 45 🚫, please correct me if that is wrong
I just wanna say, there won’t be that much more harassment directly on hexbear comms to deal with if you go with a blocklist, honestly there really hasn’t been a too much of a spike in liberals attacking lemmygrad unless a post just like blows up on lemmy.world for some reason.
However, one thing to consider that when hexbear starts haunting the rest of the lemmyverse like lemmygrad, you are much more likely get bad faith attacks and downvotes if you comment/post in another instance, even if it’s not political, they will see you’re from hexbear and start foaming at the mouth
ETA: just to let you know, since hexbear doesn’t use downvotes you wont actually see your posts/comments downvoted, forgot to add that ⬛️
I first learned about the sub on
by seeing redditors whisper about it in fear and rage, I bet we'll gain new users if we cultivate that vibe on lemmy as well
Same, it had me pretty intrigued (the weird name I wasn't sure how to parse also helped), so I went and checked and the rest is history
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