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"Just once I'd like these people to come in and engage with us" - 'Hello' - "Fuck off"
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this post was submitted on 14 Jan 2026
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This is blatant revisionism.
Hexbear attempted to federate with the rest of Lemmy but some of the largest instances such as lemmy.world and lemmy.blahaj.zone defederated from us first. Lemmy.world in particular famously pre-emptively defederated us before ever being federated, as documented in this thread (where they also state that defederation should always be considered as a last resort, you know, pre-emptively defederating Hexbear as a last resort). We were federated with lemmy.blahaj.zone for longer but once they took in a huge number of refugees from reddit /r/196 their largest comm became a lifeboat comm for that subreddit, and they were very unhappy with us; this eventually devolved into a conflict where Ada, their lead admin, decided to defederate Hexbear as a way to appease the moderator of 196. Hexbear generally has a conciliatory attitude towards blahaj to this day and many of our trans users would like to refederate eventually, but this hasn't happened yet.
Generally, Hexbear likes being federated with more instances because it allows us to spread propaganda more. That's the incentive in place and we like doing it. Other instances are the ones who generally don't like receiving tons of people like myself who are very argumentative and post giant walls of text.
Hexbear remains federated with other big instances like SDF, reddthat, .ml (which you might call part of the tankie troika), and lemm.ee before it went down. We get wanderers from there all the time and we play nice with them.
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Hexbear was the first one to defederate, not the other way around. Other instances were considering about going through with defederation, but Hexbear decided to make the call for them, partly because as I mentioned, Tankies such as yourself couldn't handle the wave of dissent in your safespaces.
If you know of the admins of blahaj, they've made it very clear they do not want their instance or their identity used as political fuel, which you are doing right now. I used to do the same until they politely explained that they don't like it, and I apologised and stopped. Perhaps that's one of the reasons you're still defederated, since you use identity as a weapon without actually caring for the rights of the identity. For example, you don't care about LGBTQ rights in Russia, Iran or China, all of which make same-sex marriage illegal, instead you defend these states. Why would an LGBTQ instance ever federate with that?
If you truly enjoyed being federated, then why was Hexbear always the first to defederate?
And you most certainly don't play nice. You told me to fuck off and then banned me lol