Hello Users of Hexbear I wanted to have a featured post discussing the next
steps for federation. We have discussed this at length among the mod team, and
it is pretty much evenly split between federating based on a "block-list" or
federating based on an "allow-list". While the mod team slightly skewed in favor
of federating using a block-list, meaning that any instance not specifically
blocked will be able to link with hexbear.net, we will be starting with an
allow-list. What this means is that only instances specifically on our
allow-list will be able to link with us, there are a few reasons for this. We
wanted to slowly integrate into the fediverse to see what it would mean for
hexbear.net's culture as well as how we fit into the wider fediverse. We also
wanted to minimize the instances have not blocked threads, or does not block the
reactionary/fash/pedo instances.
I was honestly suprised to discover that most lemmy instances block lemmygrad.ml
but do not block the reactionary/pedo instances, sad. Here is a tenative list of
what our allow-list would look like: lemmy.world/instances ,
https://possumpat.io/instances , https://lemmy.ml/instances ,
https://sopuli.xyz/instances , https://discuss.tchncs.de/instances ,
https://lemmygrad.ml/instances , https://mander.xyz/instances ,
https://lemm.ee/instances , toots.matapocos.dog a block-list would be massive
and exhaustive to ensure that we do not federate with any pornographic,
reactionary, fascist, racist, homophobic, transphobic, or csam-adjacent
instances. We will be creating a pinned post in c/hexbear where additional
instances can be nominated for addition to the allow-list.
https://www.hexbear.net/post/277506 Please see these previous posts by Nagarjuna
regarding federation: https://www.hexbear.net/post/273407 and
https://www.hexbear.net/post/273404 If you would like to officially put down
your opinion on federation, please make a comment with 🧱 if you'd like to
federate based on a block-list, a ✅ if you'd like to federate based on an
allow-list, or a 🚫 if you do not with to federate at all, this is a temprature
check and not a binding vote. Thank you and as usual off-topic comments will be
removed. Thank you for the feedback and apologies for the original emojis
chosen, the final count is 58 🧱 111 ✅ 45 🚫, please correct me if that is wrong
Hexbear is far more likely to have users entering and using our comms, being another large socialist instance, albeit dedicated to left unity rather than Marxism like ourselves. I think there is enough of a culture change that we need to have a pinned post for hexbear users coming here explaining what kind of content/attitudes they might see here/what different rules to follow
There should also be a section dedicated to explaining to lemmygrad users to respect hexbear comm rules and what to expect from their users etc.
I think this would help ease any potential cross site struggle sessions
Wow holy shit hadn’t heard about this in particular, sorry you had to deal with that comrade. Explains why there was so much struggle about trans people early on in hexbear, especially when it was named chapo.chat from what I can tell (wasn’t there for any of this, but I’ve seen several posts about it pop up when I’ve searched for other things)
for what it’s worth the strict moderation, pronoun tag and lack of downvotes seems to have mostly fixed it, although I’m not trans so I can’t say for certain
Wow holy shit hadn’t heard about this in particular, sorry you had to deal with that comrade. Explains why there was so much struggle about trans people early on in hexbear, especially when it was named chapo.chat from what I can tell (wasn’t there for any of this, but I’ve seen several posts about it pop up when I’ve searched for other things)
for what it’s worth the strict moderation, pronoun tag and lack of downvotes seems to have mostly fixed it, although I’m not trans so I can’t say for certain