There's been discussion of federation with Lemmygrad. I think this is probably a good call. I just want to know how the anti-sectarian rule would be enforced. Like, it someone makes an anti-anarchist post on lemmygrad.ml and it shows up on hexbear.net, would the moderators hide the comment on our end but not on Lemmygrad? Would repeat offenders be banned from hexbear.net even though they made the comment on a different iteration?
Same for one of the bigger anarchist instances like lemmy.blahaj.zone which has good leftist and trans content but also has regular struggle sessions about "tankies." It seems like federation with then would be a boon for both sites, but moderating the left unity rule would be a nightmare.
Also, another thought: would downbears from other instances carry over here?
Copied my comment from another thread: We should actually do this.
We should bring back chapo.chat, but with a twist:
that's cool
chapo.chat the posting division of hexbear
Heresy.
I kind of like this, have a federated version and a non-federated version and folks pick their experience.
I'd pitch three version, an insular hexbear.net, a left wing only federated one, and an all-of-lemmy version with relaxed moderation of other instances
We need a third name, I suggest lib.rehab
Banger. The world facing one should be chapo.chat though, let the name continue to live in infamy
100% agreement. It lives on as a spectre haunting the internet
Aww. I forgot to pay the bill on chapotraphousepodcast.com
Sort of an air-gap for shitfuckery. I like it.
Make it so when you click on the hexbear icon in the top left it puts on the ideology sunglasses
and you can see the federated content.
so basically a Lemmy where we don't ever defend AES. because that is all it takes to be TANKIE.
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I don't know if I've seen a fediverse site try this before. Kinda want to see how well it'd work now.
This sounds like more work for the dev team and it will no doubt push actual federatin' further out, but I do really like this idea