I figured since their admin has asked them to stop participating over here it may be worthwhile to get a new discussion going that is primarily blahaj. I’m almost certain they’ll still be upvoting so keep that in mind as that may skew things. Worthwhile to check in from instances that have already defederated them. The previous thread definitely left a bad taste in my mouth but what do y’all think?
Old thread can be found here
EDIT: With regards to the post on new federation guidelines here: https://hexbear.net/post/352119
The current top comment is:
Every instance that has talked shit and got dogpiled should be thanking us for breathing some life into their dead and boring ass websites.
The comments I consider deflection:
- Asking for an update to the UI to clarify when a post is federated and what that means for user behavior (Full text is: Okay, can we get like, posts from other sites to have red backgrounds with caution tape all over so we don’t forget? [mischevious emoji])
- Saying that Lemmy needs to allow local-only communities (true but not really the problem)
- “[…] I still think that federating with so many communities at all the same time was a bad idea […] I hope we take a more measured approach moving forward.” (most instances do not have these sorts of problems)
Ultimately the tone of the instance and its infectious nature on the fediverse are the issue. Particularly as it does not seem that the admins/mods truly have the ability to reign in their users.
I figured it was those comments you were referring to, and I can sort of see where you’re coming from now that I think about it, since it should be on the users to behave even without changing Lemmy’s features. Still, I don’t think it’s particularly malicious to discuss how to improve the site, and how they could’ve approached federation differently. I think that functionality shapes behavior, so these are the types of things that should be discussed.
Edit: And regarding “most instances do not have these sorts of problems” — I don’t think it’s good to treat the majority experience as the universal experience.
And regarding “most instances do not have these sorts of problems” — I don’t think it’s good to treat the majority experience as the universal experience.
Don’t get me wrong hexbear is absolutely anomalous. I do not think that is an argument in favor of federating with them.
I don’t think them being anomalous is an argument in favor of not federating with them, either.