there's a million practical reasons to do that besides federation. The old site had major performance issues, probably some undiscovered security flaws, etc, and a codebase that nobody was familiar with as those devs left/stepped back.
And honestly, I get why people here are interested in staying walled off. I'm in favor of federation but there are valid concerns
hexbear predates federation support in lemmy actually.
Sure. But admins have been working for the last six months to retrofit us back onto the full platform.
there's a million practical reasons to do that besides federation. The old site had major performance issues, probably some undiscovered security flaws, etc, and a codebase that nobody was familiar with as those devs left/stepped back.
And honestly, I get why people here are interested in staying walled off. I'm in favor of federation but there are valid concerns
That's fair