Hello users of Hexbear, we wanted to do a federation check-in.
So far these are the instances in question but please use this post as a suggestion for other instances to either federate with or defederate from or to comment your thoughts on federation in general.
kbin.social / fedia.io
Please comment to vote:
indicates you want to federate with all the instances listed above
indicates you want to defederate with all the instances listed above
indicates you would like to defederate with some and federate with others (please include what instances you want for each)
Here are some relevant posts/comments:
https://hexbear.net/comment/4515862
https://hexbear.net/comment/4510892
(Nath is an aussie.zone admin)
https://hexbear.net/post/1592684
https://hexbear.net/post/369410
(we would selectively not federate with their /c/196 community)
kbin.social and fedia.io are kbin and mbin respectively which is very similar but also distinct from lemmy. These are the two largest instances but we may look to add more in the future. There is an issue with those two as they deanonymize the modlog and allow users to inspect the upvotes for a post/comment. If users vote to federate with kbin/mbin instances and we experience moderator harassment they will be defederated from immediately.
My personal opinion follows:
I think that lemm.ee primary worth is the 1.7k daily active users.
programming.dev has active programming communities
aussie.zone has a lot of australia specific communities
lemmy.blahaj.zone has specific queer communities
kbin.social and fedia.io value is from userbase
https://the-federation.info/platform/184
https://the-federation.info/platform/290
https://the-federation.info/platform/73
hexbear is 1.75k users per month compared to .ee 3.6k and kbin.social 4.6k
Removed kbin and mbin due to moderation / user self-deletion federation problems
I don't know what this site was like having never heard of it until a couple months ago. I found you all through Lemm.ee federation. Today I'm reading communist theory, have become vegan and am working on my delibification. That wouldn't have happened or have taken longer if not for you guys and federation. I would have stayed a smarmy ignorant lib although maybe a bit happier and less stressed.
Edit: I feel compelled to make it explicit that this is not a vote either way. I'm offering this perspective since the goal of federating was stated as radicalizing libs like me to show that it can work. The judgment of whether there are enough people like me to make federation worth it, in particular since this seems to affect trans comrades disproportionately, is for others to vote on.
Cute post
High praise coming from you
awh
how do we pull in
-pilled people like you without destroying the good vibes here from the sludge of reactionary posters that infest reddit-alikes? serious question and it's not just aimed at you.
I do not think its possible to recruit from general society without exposing oneself to it. I think that's what the vote here is about, do we want to recruit via federation, which means exposing people here to the chuds, in hopes of catching some open to radicalization or do we want to make it a truly safe place.
Moderation of the chuds will only ever be effective after they posted so I don't think you can have a truly safe space which is also exposed to the outside.
Are you telling me you came up with that username while you were still a lib? You'll out left us all!
This is a happy story.
Same, fam
Hell yeah
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My sarcasm detector isn't very good, does that mean you think I'm full of myself and should be banned? Pretty sure I'm misunderstanding something that since that seems overly harsh lol
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Ah that makes more sense. My sarcasm detector really is terrible but since I know this I also know that there most likely is a misunderstanding when someone seems rude for no reason so no harm done
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