Hey, sorry about the way this unfolded.

I removed hexbear from the blocklist, as they are defederated from us, and I was unaware that it would mean that hexbear users and blahaj users would be able to interact on 3rd party instances. I'll add them back for now.

Ultimately, the reason I removed them from the list now is that once we have the ability to let users block instances on a per user level, I am open to the idea of refederating with hexbear, because I am aware that many of their trans and gender diverse users want the ability to connect with our trans communities, and trans solidarity is something that I hold to be very important. Enough that I am willing to give this all another go.

However, it was only meant to happen after blahaj users had the option to opt out of interacting with hexbear users, and after I had made an announcement letting people know it was coming. I apologise for the screw up leading to a mini refederation before I gave people a heads up and before the tools were in place to let people choose whether they engage with hexbear users.

I didn’t realize either until I wandered into one of their posts. I am newer to lemme and I thought the general vibe was "leftist=good, atrocities=bad" but these dudes were all about Russia being good dudes and Ukraine being bad. I asked what was up with that and everyone shit on me. I even got some NK style propaganda thrown at me. Apparently NK is a lovely place to live and they are just being sanctioned to death bc they resist American imperialism.

It really threw me for a loop. I spent some time trying to figure out wtf a hexbear is. The general consensus is that they’re tankies and that’s bad.

If I remember correctly, we didn't defederate from them. They came, they threw shit around, and they defederated soon after for a bonus superiority boner. So hexbear is defederated from us, but we are not from them.

User level instance blocks when

I keep blocking hexbear shit but there's always more

Semi related daily reminder that blahaj defederated from lemmynsfw because they asked for the closure of /c/adorableporn claiming it was CSAM, and they refused 😐

I moved to iusearchlinux.fyi to be re-federated with everyone and honestly even the tankies, 99% of what reaches the front page is pretty bearable and you guys miss out on mostly good posts. I saw some guardian articles about palestine civilian deaths today for example and realized it was in the lemmygrad worldnews only when I scrolled past it a second time

While we're at it can we please defed from sh.itjust.works? I swear more users have been 4chan levels of mask on fascist troll than any other instance

@Ada can we please defederate from Hexbear fully?

Or perhaps can you comment on why we're federated again?

Sounds like someone wanted to spook y'all for Halloween 👻👻.

Also, I don't see shit from blahaj on my hexbear account so idk what's going on with this.

Hope this is actually a Halloween joke yea.

Someone makes a post about Hexbear and instantly all of the familiar faces are here telling ua the same lies as always 🤠 Second thought just got removed from Nebula for saying he was glad for Israeli deaths. Never forget what Hexbear is.

How did you see this?

Funny, I can see comments on hexbear user profiles that are off-hexbear. And I can see Hexbear communities and posts. But those posts don’t have any comments at all on them.