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It's reassuring that most people have forgotten about hexbear.
Isn't lemm.ee still federated with hexbear? I used to have an account over there and fled to .world when the admin refused to stop apologizing for their God awful behavior.
We are but I just use a Lemmy viewer that can block entire instances, problem solved.
You don't need a lemmy viewer or app anymore, lemmy itself lets you block instances entirely now.
Even better!
Yes, they are. In fact I made a multiple-page-long post (on my old lemm.ee account) to the lemm.ee meta community asking to defederate from hexbear.net. Fortunately now you can just block an instance.
Edit: to be clear, I am not criticizing lemm.ee admins. They have their own reasons to not block hexbear.net, and I respect their decision.
Isn't the point of Lemm.ee to be very light on the block list, so users can create their own experience? Other than CSAM, I think the point was that users would be able to do what they want.
Yes, that is what they're aiming for.
Yes lemm.ee is still federated with hexbear, which is frankly fine by me (at least ever since blocking instances was introduced).
If they’re blocked from your feed, it doesn’t really matter.
Think a lot of big places defederated with lemmygrad and hexbear. .ml slipped under the radar, so you have to block it manually.
Nah lemmy.ml didn't slip under the radar, it's intentionally still federated with because it's the main instance of the core lemmy developers. Said developers also own and operate lemmygrad, but lemmy.ml is meant to be neutral ground.
lemmy.ml never really used to be that bad, either. It was only after the mass defederation of hexbear that users from there started making alt accounts in other instances, lemmy.ml being one of the main ones and, unfortunatley, lemm.ee getting its share also. lemmy.ml is still ostensibly neutral ground, however now it has a pack of refugee users skewing how its perceived.
I think feddit.uk is still federated with hexbear btw.
Nah man, I've been banned twice now simply for mentioning that time Russia shot down a civilian airliner over Ukraine. .ml is very fucking far from neutral.
i left .ml because i kept getting banned when arguing with tankies
I think it was primarily /c/worldnews over there that has that issue, what really doesn't help is they use the same font and colour as the same community from lemmy.world.
Nah ml isn't neutral. I was banned for saying NATO is a defence alliance
I also find shitjustworks to be bad.
What's wrong with shitjustworks? I just moved my account there because they seemed nice IMHO.
I think a lot of trolls set up accounts there.
Nothing. It's a good stable spot. Stays updated. It has the best instance name too.
Yeah, I block all three.
You have the block it manually for now.
I give it a week before some dolt there calls for violence (in a tangible sense(again, lol)) and it gets axed from the zeitgeist like the rest of the auth-right drivel does.
It's the same as that shit I took last week. The memory isn't worth the paper that wiped it away.
What happened to them anyway?
They defederated because people were being mean to them (after they brigaded numerous threads, were omnipresent nuisances and annoyances, and posted a pig shitting on its own balls everywhere).
Given that "the dunk tank" is still one of their bigger subs, id say theyre still brigading.
Back when blahaj.zone defederated from hexbear the tankies started brigading blahaj and spamming comments about how "transphobic" blahaj's mods/admin are. I pointed out how absurd this argument was given the admin and many of the mods are actual trans people.
This upset some moron and they posted a comment "calling me out" on c/dunktank.
Yup, sounds about right. And then they circlejerk over how righteous they are 🙄
They absolutely do, but they come in with .world and .ml alts now.
Yup! Thats exactly how it goes. Then they argue with shifting goalposts or gish gallop you into the dregs of a thread before they finally catch u misspeaking or not addressing one of their shifted goalposts and go, "ha! Look how full of shit u are!" Theyre incredibly toxic as they do it, and get mad if u preach any amount of unity on the left.
.world defederated with hexbear preemptively, but i'm sure hexbear would have defederated with .world pretty quickly anyway.
But i shouldn't speculate, and you shouldn't lie.
Preemptively? It should’ve happened even sooner. They should lose .ml also.
Instance blocking was implemented
Hexbear still federates just a lot of the big ones cut them off (or vice versa)
Your instance still federates
*Blocked