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.