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Federation Discussion completed

Hello Users of Hexbear I wanted to have a featured post discussing the next steps for federation. We have discussed this at length among the mod team, and it is pretty much evenly split between federating based on a "block-list" or federating based on an "allow-list". While the mod team slightly skewed in favor of federating using a block-list, meaning that any instance not specifically blocked will be able to link with hexbear.net, we will be starting with an allow-list.

What this means is that only instances specifically on our allow-list will be able to link with us, there are a few reasons for this. We wanted to slowly integrate into the fediverse to see what it would mean for hexbear.net's culture as well as how we fit into the wider fediverse. We also wanted to minimize the instances have not blocked threads, or does not block the reactionary/fash/pedo instances.

I was honestly suprised to discover that most lemmy instances block lemmygrad.ml but do not block the reactionary/pedo instances, sad.

Here is a tenative list of what our allow-list would look like: lemmy.world/instances , https://possumpat.io/instances , https://lemmy.ml/instances , https://sopuli.xyz/instances , https://discuss.tchncs.de/instances , https://lemmygrad.ml/instances , https://mander.xyz/instances , https://lemm.ee/instances , toots.matapocos.dog

a block-list would be massive and exhaustive to ensure that we do not federate with any pornographic, reactionary, fascist, racist, homophobic, transphobic, or csam-adjacent instances.

We will be creating a pinned post in c/hexbear where additional instances can be nominated for addition to the allow-list. https://hexbear.net/post/277506

Please see these previous posts by Nagarjuna regarding federation: https://hexbear.net/post/273407 and https://hexbear.net/post/273404

If you would like to officially put down your opinion on federation, please make a comment with 🧱 if you'd like to federate based on a block-list, a ✅ if you'd like to federate based on an allow-list, or a 🚫 if you do not with to federate at all, this is a temprature check and not a binding vote. Thank you and as usual off-topic comments will be removed.

Thank you for the feedback and apologies for the original emojis chosen, the final count is 58 🧱 111 ✅ 45 🚫, please correct me if that is wrong

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  • As a LLC in Delaware, I am casting this vote a hundred times over. 🚫

    I come to this site specifically so I don’t have to see a raging, genocidal liberal say you’re literally Hitler if you don’t support nuking Moscow. I come here specifically so I don’t have to deal with petty internet drama. Which we already have wrt struggle sessions, do we really want to make it worse?

    I don’t see why we should ruin the less-shitty nature of this site just so we can yell at liberals who will just block us. (They will be so owned for the one minute before your comment is removed.) If you want to get into fights on another forum sign up for an account on another forum. Many people like the site because it’s a safe space from reddit bros and their reddit bro takes. Just because some people think it would be funny to have libs show up here to be bullied doesn’t mean we should just can the years of curation and fine tuning. It’s an extra two minutes for you to go to beehaw or whatever and get into useless fights where it’s just you and the other guy telling each other to kill themselves.

    Pretending that telling libs to post hog on the internet is some kind of revolutionary praxis and quoting Mao about it is just kinda sad, if not incredibly funny. Pretending that it will effect any change at all is even funnier. Applying a text written in the 1930s about interparty disciplinary policy to your dumb online fights is some real brain genius shit. It’s such a perfect encapsulation of the western left. Terminally online event horizon.

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