The main problem is that sh.itjust.works was too reactionary. It's probably the most reactionary instance we had federated thus far. Like, their entire name is "lolol we call ourselves SJW lololol." It's one thing to have an anti-communist userbase with "apolitical" management that we can push back and draw people on our side and to our site (this is basically lemm.ee), but once you have anti-communist mods running around hiding their power level while subtly trying to get people on board with the fascist pipeline where even the lemm.ee Ledditor noticed something fishy, it's time to write off the instance as a loss and pull the plug. Just look at how Goat acts and how they're pretty good at having plausible deniability even when the mask slips sometimes. They aren't just some clueless sinophobic Ledditor, but is 100% a fascist hiding their power level. They're an opp and should be treated as such.

For me, I'm still of the mind that people should defederate from us rather than we defederate from them, but I'm not going to miss them at all. None of the rank and file added value to Hexbear at all and unlike blahaj, they don't have any real people from marginalized communities to onboard. They're just a bunch of Canadian Ledditors who think an instance called SJW is top kek, so they can all get fucked.