I see these kinds of lies so often. Hexbear didn't defederate sh, this is easy to verify at https://hexbear.net/instances. They defederated us and if they federated us again we wouldn't be blocking them.
this post was submitted on 12 Feb 2026
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They defederated us and if they federated us again we wouldn't be blocking them.
They are not on our Allowed Instances list.
Oh I might be misunderstanding how the system works, then. What does the blocklist do if removing something from the allow list is equivalent to blocking it?
Allow-list means that we receive info only from those instances https://hexbear.net/instances
Per this link we can see there are some more on the linked than the allowed tab, these were ones that we may have federated with in the past or are no longer in operation. It is possible that some of hexbear's posts/comments are sent to a linked instance but if they are not on our allow list we do not receive their posts/comments even those made in hexbear communities or posts.
A blocked instance neither receives any of hexbear's federated information nor do we receive any of theirs.
I hope that makes it a bit more clear, most lemmy instances use a block-list therefore every single federated instance that is created could connect to it if the effort is put forth, however with our allow-list Hexbear admins must specifically add a new instance to the list for federation to occur.
The site uses an allowlist-only mode for federated, only select instances are allowed to federated with us. I'm not entirely sure what the blocklist does tbh.
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