Almost all of them, but I think we'd have to do it in stages with more similar instances first so users can grasp the concept of federation themselves and avoid torpedoing the federation concept or destroying hexbears reputation on the fediverse.
So probably lemmygrad first, and we'll see from there. Federating with instances that have sports, hobby and fitness communities would be really nice in my opinion.
I would prefer an open approach as well (but idgaf what we do as long as most people here are happy). Presumably the first week or so will be chaos, but we will eventually ban the troublemakers, get blocked by a couple dozen instances, block a handful ourselves, and find an equilibrium. The fact that we could just pull the plug at any time is reassuring. If it turns out to be a mistake, we return to the status quo. We are in an extremely unusual situation of being willing to federate and simply not having done so.
If we are going to do it one by one, we should probably be diplomatic about it and actually talk with these peer instance operators. Do a proper introduction, establish some mutual expectations, etc. Like you said, taking a few small steps at first is probably a good way to get acclimated.
If we are going to do it one by one, we should probably be diplomatic about it and actually talk with these peer instance operators. Do a proper introduction, establish some mutual expectations, etc.
Almost all of them, but I think we'd have to do it in stages with more similar instances first so users can grasp the concept of federation themselves and avoid torpedoing the federation concept or destroying hexbears reputation on the fediverse.
So probably lemmygrad first, and we'll see from there. Federating with instances that have sports, hobby and fitness communities would be really nice in my opinion.
I would prefer an open approach as well (but idgaf what we do as long as most people here are happy). Presumably the first week or so will be chaos, but we will eventually ban the troublemakers, get blocked by a couple dozen instances, block a handful ourselves, and find an equilibrium. The fact that we could just pull the plug at any time is reassuring. If it turns out to be a mistake, we return to the status quo. We are in an extremely unusual situation of being willing to federate and simply not having done so.
If we are going to do it one by one, we should probably be diplomatic about it and actually talk with these peer instance operators. Do a proper introduction, establish some mutual expectations, etc. Like you said, taking a few small steps at first is probably a good way to get acclimated.
Yeah we're going to have to do that.
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Oh yeah and with the old posts back, your comment reminded me of this hilarious time a horse paste chud stumbled upon hexbear and got dunked on lol
https://hexbear.net/post/137175
Lol I'm in that thread and don't even remember it.
Yeah if libs start posting liberalism on the hexbear instance it's fair game I guess lol. Though we should still be kind to well meaning folks.