Currently the stance for this instance is defederation as a last resort so everyone can participate in the coding chats. If a community on a connected instance breaks our rules the community will be removed from the instance and things such as politics communities will be hidden from the all feed once we can get that coded in since lemmy itself isnt capable of doing it very well yet (its a feature but only through the backend and painful to do in bulk)

A bunch of hexbear communities fall into the hidden in the all feed category so wont show up to people unless they explicitly look for it by searching and subscribing. Should be pushed out once I can dedicate time to coding it in and ill announce in this community when it has

I said it on the exploding-heads thread and I’ll say it here too: my “all” feed would be a much nicer place without hexbear showing up in it.

So we’re gonna keep defederating instances every time a user of an instance acts crazy? Until every instance deferates from each other? This is getting absurd… and feels more and more like… high school.

Your screenshot is of a lemmygrad users comment with only three upvotes (hexbear doesn’t have downvotes) in the hexbear “chapotraphouse” comm.

And you’re saying that it shows programming.dev should defederate with the whole instance?

This is likely the only thread on programming.dev that will attract them. They don’t have much cause for class war here.