Even Lemmygrad, a handful of extremely online weirdos like us, is filled with anti-anarchist and anti-sex work brainworms and I don’t want to interact with them.
We outnumber them and are also far more active than them. If anything, they're the ones who should be afraid, not us. Bad things will happen to their instance if they try to brigade us and harsh our vibe.
Most instances have a "local" toggle between "subscribed" and "all." Just picking "local" would be the equivalent of what picking "all" is right now. You could also just subscribe to all the Hexbear comms and pick "subscribed."
I think federation is good if you use the Internet for hobbies. So you want to follow gaming news, you could subscribe to the games comm of Hexbear, lemmygrad, lemmy, and other instance and have a subscribed front feed of gaming news from instances that Hexbear federates with . You could already do this with RSS feeds, but it would be a massive hassle to micromanage 10 accounts for 10 different instances if you want to actually comment instead of just reading comments.
We outnumber them and are also far more active than them. If anything, they're the ones who should be afraid, not us. Bad things will happen to their instance if they try to brigade us and harsh our vibe.
Most instances have a "local" toggle between "subscribed" and "all." Just picking "local" would be the equivalent of what picking "all" is right now. You could also just subscribe to all the Hexbear comms and pick "subscribed."
I think federation is good if you use the Internet for hobbies. So you want to follow gaming news, you could subscribe to the games comm of Hexbear, lemmygrad, lemmy, and other instance and have a subscribed front feed of gaming news from instances that Hexbear federates with . You could already do this with RSS feeds, but it would be a massive hassle to micromanage 10 accounts for 10 different instances if you want to actually comment instead of just reading comments.