This is an admin post, intended for blahaj lemmy users. Top level posts from members of other instances will be removed.
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Edit - Hexbear announced plans to deferedate from us.
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After recent events, it feels to me that sentiment has shifted and more people are asking for defederation of hexbear than previously
I’ve been doing my best to try and mend bridges and keep us connected, as it’s my hope that we can maintain trans solidarity and work with them, despite the friction, however, ultimately, I feel that this is an issue for the blahaj lemmy community to decide, not the admins alone
So here’s what we’re going to do
We’re going to leave things as they are for a week. That will give time for things to calm down whilst we see if we can work together. After a week, I’ll put up a vote and get a feel for where the community is at in regards to our continued federation with hexbear. That poll will run for a week. If there is a strong will to defederate (a clear majority), then that’s what we will do
They also had posts on their instance directing people to our meta post. If you look at that thread, it’s mostly hexbear users now
That post was deleted by their admin and their admin said to leave it alone, which it seems they did after being told to. Seems worth mentioning.
Yea, but that shouldn’t have to be said. Like it seems like basic courtesy to me.
Maybe, but it’s kind of been the norm every time someone has brought up defederating an instance, because it naturally makes people upset and defensive, since it’s kind of a bigger deal than blocking a community you don’t like in All.
I’d expect it next time too, until Lemmy allows local-only threads. Maybe it’s better to expect human reactions to inflammatory topics.
Hey, that was me, and I fucked up. That was not a brigading post. That was me wanting to talk about what people were saying about us on our instance. We just have a rule to link to the source and I did that without thinking about the implications. I understand that makes me short-sited, I understand it makes me dumb. I do feel bad about what it caused and I did apologize.