Maybe it's just a subjective thing from my own limited perspective, but I believe it anyway: with federated liberals showing up and really giving us something to dunk and clown on and generally to identify against, I haven't seen an in-house Hexbear struggle session and I haven't even had anyone get weird on me in direct messages, make several "not an alt" alt accounts to scream at me for a few hours/days, or anything like that since the federating happened.
In that way, indirectly and unintentionally, I'm happy that federating made Hexbears come together and be a bit less shitty. 
Ah, time to find a new phrase since they ruined it
Fuck them. Keep using it. They already turned "communism" and "socialism" into curse words. Don't twist your words to appeal to these bad actors. They won't return the favor.