the Dunking Vanguard
I saw someone on there call us "feral posters", the way they see us is really funny to me
It's funny because it's mostly accurate, everyone here is so nice and friendly like 90% of the time but when something kicks off Hexbear users are vicious.
One thing we really need to teach people before federating is to be careful of overdoing it on other instances as if those instances decide that Hexbear users are always badly behaved they may just defederate.
One thing we really need to teach people before federating is to be careful of overdoing it on other instances
lol good luck.
One thing we really need to teach people before federating is to be careful of overdoing it on other instances as if those instances decide that Hexbear users are always badly behaved they may just defederate.
We really need to. Don't shit up other people's stuff. If it's a explicit chud instance, we probably won't federate with them anyways.
If users come to hexbear, it's fair game though. But don't be arseholes to well meaning people.
If users come to hexbear, it’s fair game though. But don’t be arseholes to well meaning people.
This is still going to be a problem because the hexbear posts will exist on their instance, and if they don't like what they see here then they'll defederate to remove the content from their instance. They may not always do this, they may just ban specific targeted powerful posters they dislike from showing up on their instance instead. But yeah, it's a kind of difficult ecosystem for the bipolarity that exists in friendly vs aggressive behaviour here.
ban specific targeted powerful posters they dislike from showing up on their instance
:picard-excited: I can't wait
I long for the day I get a random notification saying I'm banned from a place I've never been to.
True, but I think we'll also overlap a bunch on lemmy.ml and other instances like that, so we still need to behave ourselves there, even if the admins are friendly toward us on the whole.
The lemmy admins were mercilessly ban us for even calling someone a single name they have an absurd level of tone policing.
We should hunt down chud instances and have one weekend a month where we federate with them and brigade with alts.
They won't defed but they'll ban everyone for even the mildest namecalling or posting :PIGPOOPBALLS:
You can have my pig poop when you pry it off of my cold, dead balls 😤
Joining a front and then splitting over rejecting civility could be the first actually leftist thing we do, and you want to stop it?
Feral is great because it implies we were once domesticated but got better.
with how few people post on lemmygrad, the fact that we're posters at all is a good thing tbh
To exterminate the feral cats, you must become a feral cat.
hey I think that was me! Or least I know I used that wording in a post I made on lemmygrad
Honestly the most fun to be had on the old subreddit was dunking on chuds who came in trying to cause shit, and having honest discussions with libs who were trying to reconcile with their cognitive dissonance.
I've said it on here several times but my favorite post was something like "You people have broken my brain." and the top comment was "No. We fixed you." Then the top reply to that was "You're welcome."
Aww. That's so sweet of them. We're like the rabid, barely unhinged attack animals of the left.
This site is full of REAL :LIB:S
We would show those :reddit-logo: "NEOLIBS" what's up
Honestly I'm still pretty skeptical of federation. It has so many logistical problems that haven't been solved. Like to subscribe to a community outside of your instance you have to manually search for !comm@instance.net in your instance. And you're either tied to the instance you made your account on, or you have to manage separate accounts.
I'm sure there will be a better way to do it in the future but once you know how to do it it's not that much of a barrier
I want weibo to relaunch as a Lemmy instance and the power of Chinese posters to be unleashed upon the west
:xi-plz: tear down the great firewall and let China's shitposts wash the libs away
unleash the flood of whatsapp uncles upon the world and watch as the west cries out in agony as half a billion :grillman: suddenly descend on their sloptrough.
Can someone explain to me like I'm a dumbass what all this talk of federating and Lemmy Marxist Leninists means? Does it mean hexbear is going somewhere/changing?
This site (hexbear) runs on a modified instance of the Lemmy project. One thing that project allows is for users of one instance (for example here on Hexbear) to interact with users/posts/comments on another instance, like lemmy.ml, if the two instances choose to do so.
Hexbear's codebase previously deviated too much from the original codebase of the Lemmy project to be able to give users the ability to interact on one anothers sites but recent hard work from the great devs here have allowed the site to get to a point where that will be a possibility again after the migration this post is about.
Hexbear stays here at this address but if it's decided that federation is desired then users will be able to interact with other servers and their communities also hosting the Lemmy project (like lemmy.ml).
Feel free to ask clarifying questions I'm glad to answer.
would the lemmy admins then be able to just come and delete us like :reddit-logo: did if we start talking about things they don't like, such as burning american troops?
No. At worst they could defederate Hexbear and we'd be back to the current status quo.
This is the advantage to federation in a nutshell. Hexbear admins have complete control over our instance and other instance admins have complete control over theirs. So long as the relationship between instances is seen as tenable the users can interact with one another's content.
If an instance becomes untenable to one another they can de-federate.
in addition to what @riseuppikmin said, the lemmy.ml admins are comrades and would likely not do that, though they will probably enforce some basic ground rules when posting on their comms (ours will stay the same)
