We became more active as inactive users returned to the site to discuss a major global event, which is a cycle that was common on r/cth as well. I haven't seen any evidence of sustainable growth in the site since it began, really.
Federation won't help immediately, since we outsize all the other Lemmy's, and the rest of the fediverse is very anarcho-succdem, but we're pretty short on options for exposure. I don't think there's an immediate danger of the site shutting down, but it needs a pipeline in the next year or two, if it's gonna have a chance.
Related, I can recommend this place to like 2 people i know IRL, and even then it's just shooting them the occasional link rather than a real invitation. A more liberal leaning instance that works as a Reddit alternative would be much better for pipelining those sorts of people. Federation keeps other instances available to those who are interested, but at arm's reach.
A final reason that the reintegration is important in general besides federation, is that there is no development base remaining for our custom codebase here, it will be much more difficult to add features without being able to integrate changes to mainstream Lemmy.
honestly federation is a double edged sword, especially when lemmy has very limited user controls in place (from what i recall you have to completely trust the federating instance)
They've been including new moderation features in more recent releases, but yeah it still has a ways to go. I don't think the "other edge" of the sword would affect Hexbear too badly at first, since we would immediately be the most active instance (unless GZD fullly migrates over).
There's been a ton of hostility toward gzd on this site, even people celebrating the quarantine in the bigger thread. Whether you agree with the criticisms of gzd or not, it makes sense for them to create their own board.
Plus if most of gzd ends up on lemmygrad hexbear may or may not remain more active.
They really like some behaviors and opinions that aren't the like of the main moderation here, so I'd rather them having their space for their things; and when federation finally hits we can share things easier.
Besides being sectarian, I think they generally have a different stance on sex work/prostitution. Some people here might call those stances "anti sex-workers", which is surely arguable, but the point is, I don't want another shitshow with a shitton of banned people. I don't know shit about the topic besides "don't consume it and help the people".
Eeh, not really. Right now we are so few that we aren't really divided into communities, besides some small cases, and none of them have contradictory rules or permissions. Besides the rules about posting things about the comm topic, you don't have a place where it's okay to have X take and another one where that take is wrong.
I think after the really unfortunate Vegan Circle Jerk debacle that finished off the "Founding Crises" we are taking a somewhat centralist approach to comm Self-determination
lemmygrad.ml seems to be their backup, if anyone posts there maybe give hexbear a shoutout
Really dumb when hexbear is way more active
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Does any hexbear user even care about that?
Yes, this site will die without federation, or some other way of creating an inflow of new users.
We grew a bunch recently? I don't think federation will help tbh.
We became more active as inactive users returned to the site to discuss a major global event, which is a cycle that was common on r/cth as well. I haven't seen any evidence of sustainable growth in the site since it began, really.
Federation won't help immediately, since we outsize all the other Lemmy's, and the rest of the fediverse is very anarcho-succdem, but we're pretty short on options for exposure. I don't think there's an immediate danger of the site shutting down, but it needs a pipeline in the next year or two, if it's gonna have a chance.
Related, I can recommend this place to like 2 people i know IRL, and even then it's just shooting them the occasional link rather than a real invitation. A more liberal leaning instance that works as a Reddit alternative would be much better for pipelining those sorts of people. Federation keeps other instances available to those who are interested, but at arm's reach.
A final reason that the reintegration is important in general besides federation, is that there is no development base remaining for our custom codebase here, it will be much more difficult to add features without being able to integrate changes to mainstream Lemmy.
honestly federation is a double edged sword, especially when lemmy has very limited user controls in place (from what i recall you have to completely trust the federating instance)
They've been including new moderation features in more recent releases, but yeah it still has a ways to go. I don't think the "other edge" of the sword would affect Hexbear too badly at first, since we would immediately be the most active instance (unless GZD fullly migrates over).
The occasional iFunny-esque watermarks aside, there have been no real attempts at marketing, so this doesn’t surprise me.
I’d agree that re-forking is important, but we should be taking advantage of access to paid advertising on other platforms while we have access.
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There's been a ton of hostility toward gzd on this site, even people celebrating the quarantine in the bigger thread. Whether you agree with the criticisms of gzd or not, it makes sense for them to create their own board.
Plus if most of gzd ends up on lemmygrad hexbear may or may not remain more active.
Which is rich because it has a huge user overlap with this website
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I did a post shitting on a stupid r/gzd post right before the site got quarantined. Felt bad about it.
honestly don't feel bad, this is the definition of critical support
They really like some behaviors and opinions that aren't the like of the main moderation here, so I'd rather them having their space for their things; and when federation finally hits we can share things easier.
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Besides being sectarian, I think they generally have a different stance on sex work/prostitution. Some people here might call those stances "anti sex-workers", which is surely arguable, but the point is, I don't want another shitshow with a shitton of banned people. I don't know shit about the topic besides "don't consume it and help the people".
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Isn’t the whole point of comms to allow for different standards of moderation?
A commitment to let them moderate their own space would go a long way.
Eeh, not really. Right now we are so few that we aren't really divided into communities, besides some small cases, and none of them have contradictory rules or permissions. Besides the rules about posting things about the comm topic, you don't have a place where it's okay to have X take and another one where that take is wrong.
I think after the really unfortunate Vegan Circle Jerk debacle that finished off the "Founding Crises" we are taking a somewhat centralist approach to comm Self-determination
I think it's fine to have hexbear as a left unity space and lemmygrad as ML only, though I hope there's a lot of overlap like SLS and genzedong
I mentioned it in my application but the mods have to approve you before you can post
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I don't like lemmy 👀
This website is an extension of lemmy
I know. I mean lemmygrad
lmao Koa_lala basically took the lead on the UI redesign in the early days of this site.
Lemmy in general or lemmygrad.ml?
Lemmygrad