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?
The way i see the discussion going on blahaj.zone makes me think they'll probably make the decision to block grad and hexbear before hexbear has to make any decisions.
Rn they've been monitoring lemmygrad users but letting them hang out and given the moderation culture I don't see that changing
That's better than I expected tbh, but I expect beehaw and sopuli to press them to block lemmygrad eventually. Those two are really salty about not being able to impose a quarantine on "tankies".
Beehaw blocked hexbear before we could even federate lmao
Wait Beehaw is federated with a trans anarchist lemmy but they're afraid of us? I do not understand libs sometimes.
I mean of two groups, one of which vociferously disavows Stalin, Lenin, Mao, Castro, Che etc and one of which says actually those guys were great, libs are always going to be more inclined to give the benefit of the doubt to the first group.
I read someone on there say it's because we "deny certain genocides".