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 
but my point is that they won't actually give that as a reason, no matter how flimsy their excuse is. Beehaw originally defederated like a year ago because "lemmygrad was filling up server hardware and is making it too expensive to run" because they fucked up some setting on their server, and then later justified it that they're defederated from it for "hatespeech", there are instances that defed lemmygrad because it supposedly brigades, so unless the hexbear admins think they can curate behavior to be less aggressive than lemmygrad (I will be real they won't be able to) I don't understand why they should even try
meh, if it doesn't work, it doesn't work. curtailing our worst excesses is for the best.
i mean if that's the intended goal frame it that way, why curtail the behavior now that federation has started? none of the behavior was considered bad before, but now that liberals are complaining about it, it's a problem?
we've always had a don't be hostile rule. it's just always been interpreted to only apply to leftists. we're now sharing space with others - so when we go into their spaces some moderation is the neighborly thing to do. like personally, I'm still going to dunk on libs, but I'm going to save the savagery for chuds/fash.
I don't think these rules imply we need to be civil with libs - if anyone says they do, I'll start dunking on them because that's liberalism. but pinging users into dunk tank threads or linking bad takes there is only going to strengthen accusations of brigading. even without that, pretty much every bad take gets replies from hexbears dunking on them anyway so it's not like anyone is getting away with bullshit scot free.