Hello users of Hexbear with the upcoming version of lemmy 0.19.4 we will be able to change local communities' federation to local only however it is experimental as they are developing private communities.

In a previous federation discussion, we stated that we would temporarily remove lemm.ee from our allow-list until hexbear communities and users have the means by which to set hexbear communities to not federate out, restricting it to hexbear users. Now that this tool is available, we will refederate with lemm.ee after we complete the update.

Please use this post to discuss federation in general, as well as provide feedback to the hexbear mod and admin team in regard to federation.

List of current federated instances on hexbear's allow-list

spectreofcommunism.boo akkoma

feddit.uk lemmy

lemmygrad.ml lemmy

transwo.men akkoma

sloth.run sharkey

endlesstalk.org lemmy

infosec.pub lemmy

akko.wtf akkoma

ursal.zone mastodon

suppo.fi lemmy

redpawcollective.co mastodon

social.harpia.red akkoma

piefed.social PieFed

szmer.info lemmy

procial.tchncs.de Firefish

lemmy.today lemmy

lgbtqia.space mastodon

feddit.nu lemmy

novo-atlantis.null.media akkoma

feddit.it lemmy

whiskers.bim.boats lemmy

lemmy.kde.social lemmy

lemmy.myserv.one lemmy

poweredbygay.social mastodon

tankie.tube peertube

lgbt.io mastodon

vegantheoryclub.org lemmy

mander.xyz lemmy

midwest.social lemmy

lemmy.glasgow.social lemmy

transfem.space lemmy

scribe.disroot.org lemmy

dormi.zone lemmy

transfem.social sharkey

the-federation.info

bookwormstory.social lemmy

lemmy.wtf lemmy

orcas.enjoying.yachts lemmy

eviltoast.org lemmy

toast.ooo lemmy

lemmy.max-p.me lemmy

reddthat.com lemmy

lemmy.zip lemmy

urbanists.social mastodon

blackqueer.life mastodon

undernopretext.social mastodon

mycrowd.ca akkoma

lemmy.studio lemmy

possumpat.io lemmy

lemmy.sdf.org lemmy

union.place mastodon

femboys.bar lemmy

fanaticus.social lemmy

poptalk.scrubbles.tech lemmy

links.hackliberty.org lemmy

feddit.cl lemmy

lemmy.dbzer0.com lemmy

weatherishappening.network mastodon

ttrpg.network lemmy

discuss.online lemmy

thelemmy.club lemmy

monyet.cc lemmy

adultswim.fan lemmy

lemmy.eco.br lemmy

lemmy.radio lemmy

lemdro.id lemmy

codesink.io lemmy

lemmy.blugatch.tube lemmy

pricefield.org lemmy

snowdin.town akkoma

fediseer.com

seafoam.space akkoma

toots.matapacos.dog hometown

lemmy.ml lemmy

jlai.lu lemmy

kyberpunk.social lemmy

lemmy.fan lemmy

ljs.social mastodon

outerheaven.club akkoma

feddit.dk lemmy

linux.community lemmy

futurology.today lemmy

mtgzone.com lemmy

lemmy.pt lemmy

startrek.website lemmy

discuss.tchncs.de lemmy

feddit.nl lemmy

lemy.lol lemmy

lemmy.one lemmy

iusearchlinux.fyi lemmy

Previous federation discussion posts

https://hexbear.net/post/277508

https://hexbear.net/post/280770

https://hexbear.net/post/335632

https://hexbear.net/post/369410

https://hexbear.net/post/369412

https://hexbear.net/post/458637

https://hexbear.net/post/504353

https://hexbear.net/post/514276

https://hexbear.net/post/528899

https://hexbear.net/post/552815

https://hexbear.net/post/1712067

  • quarrk [he/him]
    ·
    edit-2
    5 months ago

    I think it could work out ok. Certain communities intended as safe/exclusive spaces (e.g. !traaaaaaannnnnnnnnns@hexbear.net or !em_poc@hexbear.net) can block .ee, while other communities like !the_dunk_tank@hexbear.net, !history@hexbear.net, or !news@hexbear.net may opt to allow more reactionary visitors for discussion.

    I suppose it does remove the option to browse outside of 'subscribed' for those who want to stay in the safe spaces. The alternative is requiring Hexbear as a site to default to the most exclusive set of instances, which may be more strict than some Hexbears want or need.

    • AcidSmiley [she/her]
      ·
      5 months ago

      Yeah, i get the idea behind this and it's kinda interesting as an experiment. I absolutely appreciate the functionality behind it and i also get that my extremely negative views on federation don't have a majority on this site. Like, if it was up to me, we wouldn't even be federated with .ml or grad, and that's obviously not something most users here would go along with. So keeping some comms internal and others public-facing seems like a viable compromise in general.

      I'm just saying i have a bad feeling about how it will turn out in this specific case. .ee always had a way too large share of problematic users and that can't get any better after they've just lifeboated a bunch of literal death cultists.

      • AssortedBiscuits [they/them]
        ·
        5 months ago

        There's no point in using Lemmy if we're not going to federate with anybody. Lemmy is still missing features that an old school forum has. Why bother with an inferior social media platform?

    • kristina [she/her]
      ·
      edit-2
      5 months ago

      I may not be for blocking ee on traa, will need to dig through the modlog and see how important that is Edit: Yeah it appears we had no removals from ee, seems fine

      Most off-site removals were from sjw and discuss.de