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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by lwadmin@lemmy.world to c/lemmyworld@lemmy.world

Update:
The comments from this post will not be removed as to preserve the discussion around the announcement. Any continued discussions outside of this thread that violate server rules will be removed. We feel that everyone that has an opinion, and wanted to vent, has been heard.

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Original post:
Yesterday, we received information about the planned federation by Hexbear. The announcement thread can be found here: https://www.hexbear.net/post/280770. After reviewing the thread and the comments, it became evident that allowing Hexbear to federate would violate our rules.

Our code of conduct and server rules can be found here.

The announcement included several concerning statements, as highlighted below:

  • “Please try to keep the dirtbag lib-dunking to hexbear itself. Do not follow the Chapo Rules of Posting, instead try to engage utilizing informed rhetoric with sources to dismantle western propaganda. Posting the western atrocity propaganda and pig poop balls is hilarious but will pretty quickly get you banned and if enough of us do it defederated.”
  • “The West's role in the world, through organizations such as NATO, the IMF, and the World Bank - among many others - are deeply harmful to the billions of people living both inside and outside of their imperial core.”
  • “These organizations constitute the modern imperial order, with the United States at its heart - we are not fooled by the term "rules-based international order." It is in the Left's interest for these organizations to be demolished. When and how this will occur, and what precisely comes after, is the cause of great debate and discussion on this site, but it is necessary for a better world.”

The rhetoric and goal of Hexbar are clear based on their announcement: to "dismantle western propaganda" and "demolish organizations such as NATO” shows that Hexbar has no intention of "respecting the rules of the community instance in which they are posting/commenting.” It’s to push their beliefs and ideology.

In addition, several comments from a Hexbear admin, demonstrate that instance rules will not be respected.

Here are some examples:

“I can assure you there will be no lemmygrad brigades, that energy would be better funneled into the current war against liberalism on the wider fediverse.”

“All loyal, honest, active and upright Communists must unite to oppose the liberal tendencies shown by certain people among us, and set them on the right path. This is one of the tasks on our ideological front.”

Overall community comments:

To clarify, for those who have inquired about why Hexbear versus Lemmygrad, it should be noted that we are currently exploring the possibility of defederating from Lemmygrad as well based on similar comments Hexbear has made.

Defederation should only be considered as a last resort. However, based on their comments and behavior, no positive outcomes can be expected.

We made the decision to preemptively defederate from Hexbear for these reasons. While we understand that not everyone may agree with our decision, we believe it is important to prioritize the best interests of our community.

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[-] Starlet@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

"Echo-chambers are bad, and that's why I support defederating with instances that I disagree with"

EDIT: The reason Hexbear disabled downvotes is because we want people to talk to each other rather than downvote and move on.

What did I say that was wrong?

[-] CarlMarks@lemmygrad.ml 12 points 1 year ago

Hexbear disabled downvoting because it was being used by transphobes to bully trans users. They'd wait for a trans user to post and then pile on with downvotes so that their comments would always begin in the negative.

lemmy.world can't even be bothered to ban transphobes.

[-] MaungaHikoi@lemmy.nz 4 points 1 year ago

Sorry brother, the hive mind detected wrongthink and you have been punished for it.

[-] Angry_Maple@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

You summed a lot of their points up into one blunt sentence, which also implies that you were not actually looking for discussion here.

Comments like this are almost like a different flavour of a downvote.

Your comment had no counter arguments, no questions, no sources or reasonings, no related points, but instead it's just a very shortened "quote" of what you were responding to.

Your comment also didn't really actually add anything to the discussion other than showing that you think of that person's comment negatively, just like a downvote would have shown.

Irony, imo.

[-] Starlet@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

I think the point I was making was obvious. You're just being obtuse on purpose.

To spell it out:

Hexbear is going out of its way to avoid becoming an echo chamber by federating with liberal instances. Blocking Hexbear is obviously more echo chamber-like than allowing it, and opposing echo chambers is clearly a nonsense reason to defederate.

[-] SovereignState@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 1 year ago

Absolutely nothing. Hypocrites simply cannot stand being reminded of what they are.

[-] GONADS125@lemmy.world -1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

What you said wrong was provide a false equivalent.

Protecting users from toxic instances is not a bad thing, and is not counterintuitive to producing a healthy and diverse fediverse.

Whereas lemmy.world allows criticism of all governments and governing styles. The only anti-free speech instance in this discussion is hexbear.

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