So, I thought Hexbear defederated from us a little while back, and we, in turn, defederated from them. Why do I keep seeing occasional (new) Hexbear posts in the “All” feed, lately? Did the defederation get reversed? Is it somehow a bug?
So, I thought Hexbear defederated from us a little while back, and we, in turn, defederated from them. Why do I keep seeing occasional (new) Hexbear posts in the “All” feed, lately? Did the defederation get reversed? Is it somehow a bug?
They turned off federation from their side, so their instance is not federating stuff to us directly at the moment, but other instances still occasionally federate things Hexbear users have posted there, so that’s probably why you are seeing them around every now and then.
That explains why I haven’t seen them lately.
that’s a bummer. when did that happen? any idea why they defederated?
They had this thread about it: https://hexbear.net/post/1712067
I think the main issue is that for most of the time we were federated, lemm.ee admins were not getting reports about lemm.ee user activity on Hexbear communities (Lemmy didn’t have this feature until 0.19), so if anybody used a lemm.ee account to harass users on Hexbear (and I understand this did happen), there was no way for lemm.ee admins to even find out about it. In general we have a very aggressive zero tolerance policy for bigotry (and that includes transphobia), but if we don’t receive reports, then it’s hard for us to take any kind of action.
I didn’t realize that was possible. I thought instances only federated out their own content. Intuitively, it still seems lile that slcould be some kinda bug.