Hello, users of hexbear:
At the start of federation we had a user request programming.dev be added to our allow-list, we recently had a similarly upvoted request to remove programming.dev from our allow-list.
Recently, an admin of that instance reached out wanting to know what we could do to get programming.dev and hexbear.net back on federation.
I asked the admin if they would be open to continuing communications regarding any programming.dev users that are site-banned so that they could address the same user if they break the code of conduct on programming.dev
I went through our mod logs and found five programming.dev users site-banned from hexbear, two were for report abuse and three were for reactionary takes.
Programming.dev does not have any communities that would be considered reactionary, as the instance is focused on ... programming.
Their admin will most likely remove/block/silence any political communities on hexbear from the programming.dev side, as they are committed to removing communities that do not fit their niche.
Due to the communication from their admin, as well as the relative low amount of reactionary users relative to their 150+ active user base, I wanted to ask the community if we should add programming.dev back to our allow-list.
Use the emoji to vote for adding programming.dev to the hexbear.net allow-list
Use the emoji to vote for keeping programming.dev off the hexbear.net allow-list
You may also use this post to discuss federation with that instance.
Some of their active communities are: When interacting on that instance, please observe the respective communities' rules as well as the instance code of conduct.
https://programming.dev/c/programmer_humor
https://programming.dev/c/programming
https://programming.dev/c/rust
https://programming.dev/c/godot
https://programming.dev/c/python
https://programming.dev/c/experienced_devs
What does this mean? None of their users will be able to see those comms regardless of whether they would like to? Lame
Anyway for fewer stemlords
Communities will be hidden from things such as the all feed by default but if a user explicitly subscribes to it it will still show up for them everywhere as normal
Gotcha. Seems reasonable
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the explanation on their post about this is that they won't be able to see posts from hidden comms until they subscribe to them. so we're really only going to get the leftists wandering in.