I figured since their admin has asked them to stop participating over here it may be worthwhile to get a new discussion going that is primarily blahaj. I'm almost certain they'll still be upvoting so keep that in mind as that may skew things. Worthwhile to check in from instances that have already defederated them. The previous thread definitely left a bad taste in my mouth but what do y'all think?
Old thread can be found here
EDIT: With regards to the post on new federation guidelines here: https://hexbear.net/post/352119
The current top comment is:
Every instance that has talked shit and got dogpiled should be thanking us for breathing some life into their dead and boring ass websites.
Hexbear literally has a community for organizing dogpiling and brigading (even Ada mentioned it) and Ada's only problem was when it was used on them and their community†.
That's not behavior that should be condoned by our community.
By not condemning it it makes us look like we support that idea, which could easily lead us to being defederated by choosing to associate with Hexbear still.
I don't want to see our friendly instance get defederated because our admin won't defederate from an openly abusive instance.
Edit: † By community here I mean specifically the meta post, and if it's used in other spaces frequented by queer folk against queer folk.