Hexbearians are pissed at Fedia and PieFed for the audacity of not wanting to deal with them LMAO
Excuse me while I go donate even more money to PieFed
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Why bother with the 1 way federation, though?
So your users can go on their instance, I guess? That's not a great reason. Cut them off or don't.
Agreed, there is no good reason for a one way federation with a trash instance.
Even if the idea is that they have communities that aren't horrible, the taint is strong enough that the same communities should just be promoted on non/less shitty instances.
I think it’s the other way around, actually. It sounds like hex users are actually receiving posts from outside but it’s their own content that is being blocked
IMO, it's not great regardless of which direction it's going. Fuck ML'ers, but it isn't really necessary to create one-way engagement with them.
If they decided to block the other direction, I'd be fine with that.
What gets me is that their users are so smug. It's really off-putting.
Agreed, there is no good reason for a one way federation with a trash instance.
there is if you want to allow your users to get revenge, and that seems to be what @rimu@piefed.social is aiming for here. weaponizing software to harass an instance.
That's also how Lemmy defederation and user blocking works FYI so it's not unique to PieFed
That's also exactly how dessalines built Lemmy's "block" system for both users and instance blocks
I remember way back when world was still federated with most of the triad. Hexbear honestly has no one but themselves to blame. With nothing of value to offer. But cycles of revenge and retribution are hardly helpful.
They got their asses rightfully kicked to the curb for brigading. I have zero sympathy for them in this situation. But this is still disappointing behavior on the part of @rimu@piefed.social and makes me a bit more reluctant to recommended piefed to others etc. Even though .world outright blocks hex anyways. I hope it gets addressed sooner rather than later. Because I "REALLY" like the experience so far on piefed. And would like to see it prosper. Even though this will be a bit of a blemish on the project. That's nothing compared to Lemmy and its devs.
Have a dialogue front and center to opt in to blocking the whole triad when setting up the software. Nothing wrong with that at all. But yeah, please don't stirr up the dumbass's nest. They're better off being irrelevant and largely ignored. Even if it's funny ironically for this to happen to them. It's just more pointless drama.
Example of two Piefed instances that currently federate hexbear:
List of Piefed instances that currently defederate hexbear:
https://piefed.fediverse.observer/list
As you can see, instances defederating hexbear are instances managed by teams which were going to do so anyway, as they already did on Lemmy.
Instances who want to federate know how to do so, there are three examples.