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 
Let's be frank for a minute. These rules are only here because we want to continue federation with Blahaj. But some people here are of the mistaken belief that bad faith liberals can be trusted. Just look at what the mod of /c/196 has to say about our admin Carcosa, just rubbing shit all over their face. Last time I checked, exposing PMs is a universal breach of conduct unlike brigadingTM, which is just some made-up rule from Reddit. Carcosa asked for a token of good faith on the side of Blahaj (something that many people, including me, have asked for) and they were rewarded with a spit in the face. And the timing says it all really. The /c/196 mod purposely chose to rub shit all over Carcosa's face knowing that the All Active Army can't air their grievances in return. So not only is the mod of their most popular comm a shithead but a cowardly sniveling shithead as well, just like the rest of Blahaj management.
What do you think the endgame is going to be? Are we to have our arms tied behind our backs while Blahaj management make us all eat a shit sandwich, threatening defederation if we don't eat our shit sandwiches with a shit-eating grin and ask for seconds, only to defed from us in the end anyways?
Since we have plenty of evidence that Blahaj management is not operating in good faith (from the ridiculous "people of NATO" to "haha I can talk shit about your admin and you can't do anything about it") and plenty of evidence that your average Blahaj user doesn't want to federate with us anyways (based on the numerous meta threads crying about Hexbear having giant emotes and being full of tankies), then as far as I'm concerned, defederation is happening regardless of how many shit sandwiches we eat.
These rules no longer have a real reason of existence. Most of the loser Reddit clones have already defed from us. Lemmygrad is cool with us. Lemmy is cool with us. And with Blahaj soon to be out of the picture, what's the point of these rules? To cater to the brilliant minds at lemm dot ee?
If Blahaj is to defed from us, I would rather it be under our terms and not their terms.
Edit: Lol, the mod deleted that post when we started to air our grievances. Fucking pathetic. But what else do you expect from Blahaj management?
Yeah when their admin removes my "death to Nazis and transphobes" comment, it paints a pretty sus picture of their views.
That's who their admin meant by "People of NATO"
"People of NATO" just means white people. If you didn't know the context, you would think it was came up by the ghouls at /r/neoliberal or some Destiny fanboy.
You know things are bad when the instance admined by an Estonian anticommunist isn't the worst one
this is ridiculous, their mods are running roughshod over their own civility and etiquette discourse and we're over here still fumbling around trying to duct tape the kiddie gloves on. brigade the fuckers and be done with it.
Notice how they are perfectly fine with people from other instances, people who are from neither Blahaj nor Hexbear, commenting on something pertaining to the two instances, but we can't participate because that would be brigadingTM.