Post the links in the comments so folks can explore them and give their own input!

  • abc [he/him, comrade/them]
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    1 year ago

    If you want to argue with folks, go create accounts on those instances. Don't clutter up my experience on this site because you want to argue with a bunch of people on the internet.

    worth noting that you can just filter out all posts that originate from comms/external instances that aren't Hexbear's. Users from other federated instances can post in Hexbear's comms and you'll see that - but those posts would be subject to Hexbear moderation and whatnot.

    It just doesn't make sense to me. Nobody on hexbear is hopefully using their real name, so what are you gaining by having federation? Bringing your clout with you to other sites?

    more users, posts, etc. not to mention solidarity with other leftist places like lemmygrad. I mean - just look at some of the instances Bruja posted below. Is there not a single one of those that you'd maybe be interested in seeing a post from, assuming you're not filtering by Hexbear comms only? Our Gardening/Earth comms aren't that active and I wouldn't mind seeing posts from Mander or The Garden, for example. And those are just some instances one person recommended that we could possibly federate with.

    I'm sure we'll get shitheads but it is worth considering what we'll actually gain!

    • Esoteir [he/him]
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      1 year ago

      i go to hexbear hobby comms for leftist-centric discussion about hobbies. if I wanted to just get general hobby chat about a subject there's a million other sites with more active userbases than the entirety of lemmy. federating would remove the unique features of hexbear hobby comms and leave them flooded with general use, general space reddit-esque discussion. sure, they're empty and mostly unused, but when they are used they're providing something that every other site would not provide

      for instance: federating c/ttrpg with the pathfinder lemmy would A: remove piracy discussion unless some rules ceasefire could be planned and B: riddle that comm with nothing but "does perk X make my ass look big on round 3 of combat when using a full-round action?" D&D brain posts

      • GarbageShoot [he/him]
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        1 year ago

        Redditors can be banned and the Pathfinder instance isn't responsible for material that is on a different instance

        • Esoteir [he/him]
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          1 year ago

          so the net benefit is a truckload of extra moderation work and a flood of posts from another gamer hobby site i could just click to if I wanted to see their reddit posts

          • GarbageShoot [he/him]
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            1 year ago

            We would also be able to recruit new comrades and bully reactionaries

            • Esoteir [he/him]
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              1 year ago

              if by "recruit new comrades" you mean getting two new users from a hobby site with 72 active users and by "bully reactionaries" you mean subjecting the user base to about 5x the queerphobic attacks they normally get

              • GarbageShoot [he/him]
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                1 year ago

                Your using identity unconstructively as a rhetorical cudgel. We can bully reactionaries on blahaj zone and we'll get plenty of attacks, but they probably won't be queerphobic beyond endless remarks about exactly who is fellating Putin.

                • Esoteir [he/him]
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                  1 year ago

                  you're right, the small minority of queer specific lemmy instances probably won't launch queerphobic attacks

                  • GarbageShoot [he/him]
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                    1 year ago

                    Even the main lib hives probably won't, they will be horrible chauvinists in a more first-world "progressive" way for the most part.

                    • Esoteir [he/him]
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                      1 year ago

                      the average lib is pretty queerphobic, just scratch them regarding hormone blockers or neopronouns

                      • GarbageShoot [he/him]
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                        1 year ago

                        They are also racist, but I don't expect them to be talking about FBI crime stats and the 14 words. If anything, their duplicity is helpful for how it makes them pull their punches in a way that is incongruous with their beliefs.

                        • Esoteir [he/him]
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                          1 year ago

                          so queer users will be taking punches, albeit pulled?

                          • GarbageShoot [he/him]
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                            1 year ago

                            Oh hey, I can use the desktop version again maybe

                            Anyway, no, I don't think they would, not aimed at them anyway. I suppose there are worse reactionaries who are generally "closeted" about their transphobia, but that's true of any population so the question is if it's okay for us to have new users on any basis other than individuals who passed rigorous interrogation.

                            • Esoteir [he/him]
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                              1 year ago

                              You don't think liberals will attack queer users in regards to hormone blockers or neopronouns?

                              • GarbageShoot [he/him]
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                                1 year ago

                                No, I don't. I think they'll probably stick to "well don't you know castro killed people like you lmao?" and gems like that.

                                  • GarbageShoot [he/him]
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                                    1 year ago

                                    There's a massive difference between the self-selection for surveys and the self-selection for being on Lemmy, and I was here for that one. People didn't like needing to assign them to themselves for various reasons (including reactionary ones) and various other things, but people didn't misgender other users or mock them for having such-and-such pronouns (though a couple of times specific sets were taken as gags that weren't).

                                    And all I'm saying is the liberal sense of etiquette means they just won't voice their transphobia to a person like they might on a survey, same as how they wouldn't jeer at a black person even if they would get nervous seeing one (1) black teenager walking down the street.