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 just have to say I literally don't know how to talk with some people. Maybe I've been over come with terminal brainrot, but it's been whiplash to get accused of being a Kremlin propagandist and a bigot. It's like walking into a game with rules I don't understand. There's a set of pre-established boundaries regarding geopolitics you simply can't talk about. You can't say nice things about China and you can't criticize western imperialism.
I can stop myself from posting guillotine memes, I'm still stable enough to know how off putting that is.
Still like federation. Lots of cool people. I like how they've got a more chill vibe sometimes. I think the average age for a lot of our federated comrades swings a little older, so it's been neat seeing them discuss stuff from the 70s and 80s
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I haven't met many people in real life who have coherent politics. Most people I meet are deeply conservative and biting my tongue is more like not getting into fights over ever slur they say. Terminally online liberals are a weird territory to me.
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