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The mod team was pretty evenly split on adding this instance to our allow-list or leaving it off.
The instance has a very active games community, however it also has the MeanwhileOnGrad community.
https://sh.itjust.works/communities has a full list of their communities.
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We will wait for now and look at this again at the start of next month.
Lemmygrad has been the only instance to give us a warm welcome. We should definitely not federate with an instance with a anti-grad comm.
Plus they are Canadian. I have already expressed my reservations on federating with Canadian instances.
As a Canadian, also hard pass.
ehh, why are the
or 
instances any better
They are not but my suggestion of only Cuban and China based instances was rejected.
Lemmy.ca just defederated with us too
Lmao, defederated for saying we should kill landlords.
holy shit, they couldn't have claimed a more cringe reason than that 😂😂😂
I somehow missed the giant dogpile thread about Biden saying stupid shit about China.
gotta agree, lemmygrad users have been great
the idea of slighting them by making friendly with people who don't like their (excellent) politics doesn't sit right
Lemmygrad is federated with them too though, and the meanwhileongrad comm is really just one guy who loves to talk about "tankies". If anything it would be a material source for the dunk tank.
Actually we're not, lemmygrad doesn't de federate from any real instance but shit just works did de federate from us, it probably only shows on their instance list and not ours though. Which makes that meanwhile on grad community doubly funny, the creator specifically chose to make it on a de federated instance so we can't talk to him, talk about a coward.
Huh okay, my mistake, thanks for the correction!
🤓 (<---- me)
OK but 1. I don't think we need more material for the dunk tank, it's a fucking cornucopia right now and 2. this suggests a lot about their admins, because presumably at least some comrades must have protested and reported over there and were ignored
The example banner FOUCAULT provided in the thread here is both racist and unacceptable; and it wasn't just posted, it was approved by mods
OK but there are all sorts of people from many different instances that expressed support and gladness at federation with hexbear
Ah, never mind then. No as well IMO. Especially after seeing a few content examples in the present thread.
It's a pretty tiny comm and almost every single post is from just one person, I don't think it's a big deal.