I don’t know why this take hits me so hard. It’s so utterly comical in my brain. It’s such a bizarre idea to me that we’re going to be bleeding the users who have been here when it was literally only hexbear after a week or two of federation because, what, do they think their posting power is going to sway people over there? This is one of the least controversial site decisions to have happened over on this side of the coin. The idea of this being a phenomenon that will happen with multiple, let alone even one of our pre-federation users is so utterly incompatible with my mental model of Hexbear that I can’t fucking get over it. It’s fucking fascinating strangelove-wow

if you are one of these people planning to exodus to blahaj full-time please let me know because it’s too good of a bit to keep to yourself

  • Pandantic [none/username]English
    28·
    1 year ago

    So did hexbear ended up defederating from blahaj? Last I saw there was a statement from the hexbear community over on blahaj. Now blahaj said something like hexbear instantly defederated while blahaj admin was asleep and couldn’t take care of the problems. Interesting how hexbear defederated this time, oh how the turns have tabled.

    • silent_water [she/her]@hexbear.netEnglish
      31·
      1 year ago

      yeah, we defederated. it wasn’t worth subjecting vulnerable members of our community to transphobia, ableism, and racism coming from or being defended by the mod team. “taking care of the problem” in their eyes was a scolding while on hexbear we’ve permabanned site mods for far less. our mod team made the call and the userbase was unanimously in support of the decision.