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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.
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We will wait for now and look at this again at the start of next month.
Just perusing through it at a glance, it mostly looks like shitposts involving memes of Putin or pictures of NATO/US military vehicles. Annoying and cringe, but hardly a reason not to federate (I say this as primarily as a lemm.ee user).
Hexbear has been an island for almost 3 years now, we've become a very positive space for a lot of users that come here to just discuss and joke with people who also read leftist theory or have experience in activism. It's also a very trans positive space.
So we have the old guard of CTH posters that live for the dunk mixed with a lot of other users that might not have been a part of that who are just worried about this safe space being militarized.
These groups aren't mutually exclusive though and some of the most militant posters are also the ones who participate heavily in increasing the positivity of this instance.
I think this past week has changed a lot of minds in favor of going more on the offensive though, we've been building essentially an army for 3 years now and we're gonna use it to wipe the fash off the fediverse.