Hi all,

With regards to our recent integration into the Fediverse, it has become evident that specific rules should be outlined regarding our conduct towards it and our place in it. As such, we are making provisional amendments to the Code of Conduct in specific regard to federation as we find our footing and stake our ground as a part of the wider Fediverse ecosystem. The amendments are as such, demarcated within the dividers:

Federation

In regards to the Fediverse, a dual-pronged approach should be assumed:

Local Communities

Conduct remains as previously outlined [in the Hexbear Code of Conduct], except:

  1. Users visiting Hexbear should be given breathing room to inquire in good-faith about topics that seem obvious to well-trodden leftists. Assume good faith in even the most obvious of questions, except in cases where a user is explicitly acting in a combative or unreasonable manner.
  2. Do not ping users from other federated instances with intent to goad or mock.
  3. Do not directly link to comments or posts of other federated instances on public posts with intent to goad or mock.
  4. Disengagement rules, whilst not amended, are thoroughly emphasized regarding visiting users.

Federated Instances

Assume the conduct outlined regarding local communities, as well as:

  1. When in a federated instance, their rules (and their code of conduct) apply.
  2. Allow instances their own space for discussion, if requested implicitly or explicitly. If said discussion regards this site or its users, you are allowed to discuss said discussion within the local purview (meaning, within a Hexbear community), with regards to the rules laid out prior.
  3. Conduct that is deemed untenably toxic to the Fediverse and Hexbear’s standing within it (by discretion of Hexbear moderation) may be subject to reprisal, regardless of whether it is explicitly outlined.

We're thankful to the moderation and admins of the instances federated with us for their patience as we carve out our own little hole within the Fediverse. And to our beautiful posters, thank you for bearing with us in this week where decades happen 07

  • ChestRockwell [comrade/them, any]
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    1 year ago

    Our normal posting behavior is viewed as overwhelming brigading by a number of other instances.

    This is what bugs me so much. While I recognize that spamming PPB with the emoji bug right now is a problem, I feel like we shouldn't have to restrict our posting energies. Would it be possible to have more admins put up something about our size and the fact that we're not brigading but just posters? I saw the lemm.ee meta post, and that admin at least acknowledges we aren't brigading.

    From that thread:

    They have quite a large userbase who are very active on Lemmy (often so active that they leave the impression brigading all popular Lemmy posts).

    Obviously perhaps a bit weak, but this kind of education could help some of the growing pains as well, since other instances probably see 10 of us posting simultaneously and think it's a brigade when it's just our normal behavior. Also, the fact we don't have downvotes might be something that other instances should be aware of (i.e. we don't downvote and move on).