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:
- 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.
- Do not ping users from other federated instances with intent to goad or mock.
- Do not directly link to comments or posts of other federated instances on public posts with intent to goad or mock.
- Disengagement rules, whilst not amended, are thoroughly emphasized regarding visiting users.
Federated Instances
Assume the conduct outlined regarding local communities, as well as:
- When in a federated instance, their rules (and their code of conduct) apply.
- 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.
- 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 
I remember back in the day when if your forum got raided, you would raid their forum, and you weren't able to successfully muster enough people to raid their forum, it was a skill issue. Raiding was a fact of life on the Interwebs. Absolutely nobody would honor your "pls no raiding" sign and people wouldn't cry if their raid accounts got banned. I absolutely hate this crying about bRiDgAtInG Redditism.
"But this isn't healthy for the fediversirino!" Look around you. Every instance is defedding from every other instance. Just look at how lemmy.world has defedded from that piracy instance with everyone just saying, "dude, just create two accounts for each instance." So, basically treating two lemmy instances like two forums without federation. The fediverse is already balkanizing, and it's going to be so fractured that within a year, there wouldn't be any sense to even conceive of a fediverse.
Smarter people here have already came to the conclusion before me that I am having right now: that federation is entirely overhyped and won't pan out in the way Ledditors think it would. Most likely, an instance would just federate with like 5 other instances, and the largest instance would eventually cannibalize the 5 smaller instances so you're stuck with a large active instance "federated" with a bunch of dead instances.
Yeah I think you've got it, and it'll be interesting to watch it continue to unfold. It's really funny how all these instances fear our posting power.
I love how any complaint about an instance is met with "it's shit, it's meant to be shit, if you don't like it here's the door".