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We’ve temporarily defederated from Hexbear due to a Lemmy bug with very deeply nested comment threads.
this post was submitted on 19 Apr 2026
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Now I just wait to know the thread it happened in
OUR POSTING CONTINUES TO BE TOO STRONG COMRADES NEVER STOP POSTING
edit: comments are fun, zip ppl are nice 
the fact that no other instance triggers this bug is an indictment of them tbh
We're the tip of the spear. 
the bleeding edge 
hexbear is only 1 week away from nuclear nesting
They might just have less RAM or something.
At least it means that the admins checked the logs after thekr instance keeled over.
ramcells defeding and desyncing
They aren't sending their best posters!
Sorry for posting too hard
Posting muscles too swoll
If I had to hazard a guess as to the cause, it's probably some of the mutual aid requests that get posted to incorrect communities, and then get slammed with—
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—where each letter is a new reply to itself. I've seen some go as deep as 60+ comments before the posts are removed.
I apologize. In the future, I'll check which community these posts are in.
Yes, the ones outside mutual aid are often removed. For what it's worth a single comment spaced out 5 to 10 minutes will keep a post in active sort longer than a single large comment chain made in close succession
Thank you! I'll adjust my behavior.
I'm really really sorry for causing all those problems, that was definitely not my intention.
Would deleting my account help reduce the strain or would all those comments getting removed only make things worse?
Hey, not your fault, its a bug in the software and i just have to manage it from my side to try and keep the instance as stable as possible. Fingers crossed its resolved quickly by the devs :)
Deleting probably wouldn't help (instances would need to fetch those comments again I think!) But really the bug shouldn't change how you interact with the fediverse, just something we have to temporarily work around!
thanks for the kind words! but my approach was ineffective, beyond just being a pain in the ass to deal with. sorry for that.
No need to delete your account, it should be fixed in the next patch and any federated instance can remove a singular post that is causing problems.
If I had to hazard a guess as to the cause, it’s probably some of the mutual aid requests [...] where each letter is a new reply to itself. I’ve seen some go as deep as 200+ comments before the posts are removed
Isolationists take every win we can get
Another endangered species killed by outdoor cats
There is always an axis.worlder crying about us like we are federated 
That's why we stole the rainbow from god
i'm extremely disappointed it was just bump spam and not a spirited debate about stacking cats in outdoor voting booths
strikes again
I like zip. You never know what you're gonna get from them. Hope we can rejoin them soon
In Soviet Russia, zipper examine you!
we were postmaxxing too much
If you can't handle me at my 
then you'll never experience me at my
Does anyone know which thread caused the issue in particular with the user bumping the thread and repeatedly causing crashes?
Probably wasn't me. 
I almost think it has to be the world news mega or another mega.
The most likely and least funny explanation. shucks.
(In response to a .world user complaining that .zip should stay defederated)
It’s the myth of consensual ~~sex~~ federation meme, but it’s hexbear, lemmy.zip saying “I consent” and this goober saying “I don’t”
Oh no, not the zip 