Hello users of Hexbear,
I wanted to make this post to inform you that hexbear will be temporarily changing to requiring an application for new users. This will stay in effect until after the upcoming pictrs version, and the development of additional mod tooling.
After many complaints mods may begin removing Yakub memes as well as any explicit comment asking a user to post hog, the difference is that while "post hog" is allowed with extreme prejudice commenting "show us your tiny penis" is not allowed, removals will be subject to moderator discretion.
In addition, we would like to reiterate that Hexbear is a space for all our comrades, even if you may not understand their experience, please refrain from labeling a fellow user a wrecker or troll. Using conditions as a pejorative is not allowed, please engage in good-faith and remember the human!
Finally I wanted to hear the user's thoughts, opinions, comments, and proposals regarding Hexbear's recent federation with other lemmy instances.
There are two mod based proposals that I wish to open voting on:
- Should we add sh.itjust.works to the hexbear.net/instances allow-list
- Should we remove lemm.ee from the hexbear.net/instances allow-list
Use 
to vote for removing lemm.ee from the allow-list 11
Use 
to vote for adding sh.itjust.works to the allow-list 111
Use 
to vote for keeping the allow-list as is (lemm.ee on the list and sh.itjustworks off the list) 60
As always thank you to the moderators and users for making this place amazing!
Votes as of Aliveelectricwire please correct me if my count is wrong.
i think there have been much better posts in this thread about the issues federation has created, i kinda just fired mine off without thinking about it too terribly much bc i was grumpy
yeah i mean i do understand why this was all done, i am just not enjoying the outcome at all. i don't want to be mistaken, i also appreciate all the effort the people who work on this site put in. i support them doing anything that makes their workload lighter. but the site is functionally unusable in my experience - most posts hang for like 10+ minutes before posting (if they ever do), pages routinely load forever or just crash, and when shit does work it's just a bunch of fucking bigots and shitlibs everywhere! and yes, that can be adjusted somewhat, but it's still changed the site culture significantly in my experience.
idk i don't really want to get too deep into this when it's been said better elsewhere in this thread and this post stands a good chance of getting eaten anyway. i am glad most everyone seems to be having a good time with federation though, even if it's keeping me from enjoying my time here as much.
I'd be pissed too if that was my experience. Nowadays it's almost as quick as the old site for me. What browser/device if you don't mind me asking?
i generally have the issue across devices, i use android/windows with firefox
that said it comes and goes. the past two days things have been a bit better on the posting side, although pages still refuse to load a good deal of the time
it'll clear up eventually, as will the cultural aspect (i hope).