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.
More to pipeline.
Every thread mentioning socialism that we don't participate in just creates more anticommunist nerds. Same for china topics and so on. We should be everywhere.
We will also find more comrades and every single comrade we gain is objectively worth the mental suffering of bad lib takes.
I think also that as time has gone on issues have eased off. The worst libs have been permabanned and now things are calmer. It's pretty clear that federation creates an initial problem that explodes followed by things chilling out as the numbers of problem people thin out due to moderation. We can handle initial problems until things cool off as they have done everywhere else. Maintaining communication lines and being persistent about the fact that things calm down and settle as moderation reaches maturation is probably essential to making these federations work though.