Greetings gamers and those who wisely abstain,

It has become clear to us that even in the short while we’ve federated, the situation with sh.itholefor.nazis is entirely untenable and we will be defederating immediately. Multiple instances of ableist and homophobic slurs directed at our users, overwhelming litigiousness against even the most innocuous comments by our users, and just a general ethos of reactionary behavior. We’re done and out.

One of the concerns with embracing TC69 thought on site bans with federation is that the user would basically be just hexbear-side hidden and blocked from our comms, free to post reactionary content without the fear of Lenin behind them. That was a silly concern. We will resume our pre-federation policies regarding site bans.

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      • JuneFall [none/use name]
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        1 year ago

        I want to re-iterate that during lemmy.ca's discussion of defederation towards hexbear two of the most influential voices were that of an active US soldier (who slandered hexbear) and that of a cop/narc/jailer for the Canadian state. Something that was completely ignored outside of hexbear.

        There weren't many active voices (comments) to begin with in that discussions and yet those two got plenty of points.

        • bigboopballs [he/him]
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          1 year ago

          two of the most influential voices were that of an active US soldier (who slandered hexbear) and that of a cop/narc/jailer for the Canadian state.

          who, and how do we know that about those people?

          • JuneFall [none/use name]
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            1 year ago

            They did write it in their profiles and associated links and did talk consistent with it for month before:

            https://hexbear.net/comment/3740815

            https://hexbear.net/comment/3733838

        • oregoncom [he/him]
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          1 year ago

          They also had a guy use nazi dogwhistles be the second highest comment.

      • daisy
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        1 year ago

        I'm sadly not surprised. The level of political, economic, and historical education up here is abysmal.

    • ImOnADiet
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      1 year ago

      im a little sad there are legitimately some good posters on programmg.dev (no it does not make up for the chuds), hope they find their way onto hexbear/LG or some other good instance like lemmy.ml

      • happyandhappy [she/her]
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        1 year ago

        Yea programming.dev hasn't been that bad since I assume any reactionaries learned to shut up

    • Egon
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      3 months ago

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