Defederating from Hexbear.net
This instance has defederated from hexbear.net for violating our rules against propaganda as outlined in our Terms of Service. If you are unfamiliar, federation means two servers sync and host each other's content. Defederation stops us from syncing their content to our server.
Thank you, the comments were getting pretty rough the last couple days.
Oh thank goodness. I like this instance a lot but the hexbear spam was annoying.
what spam?
too little too late, but they needed to be a little less locutus and a little more jean-luc.
they are like very online. or something. I can't tell and I don't wanna know. good riddance.
For anyone on a different server, you can always personally defederated from a server under Settings in the Block tab at the very bottom. I eventually ended up being defederated from hexbear.net and lemmygrad.ml.
Yes, I strongly encourage people to curate their own experience.
Thank you for your service.
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based sysadmin
+1 for using Bookstack.
We use that at work for some internal documentation. Love it.
Bookstack is great!
What?
The link to their Terms of Service in the post is running on an open-source wiki software called "Bookstack".
Its an amazing tool. No one else at my work wants to adopt it so it is my personal documentation app.
@SysAdmin@startrek.website Can I ask what they were propagandising about?
I've seen plenty of stuff over there saying if you're against Russia and their social engineering being used against the US, it's basically the same as being an antisemite.
The whole place is whackadoodle.
Theory divorced from historical context results in all kinds of cognitive dissonance, and that's what I see there for the most part.
expect vague answers or examples of individual clueless tankies used to justify the bans of entire instances at best.
defederating & banning from tankies is popular on the lemmyverse and they're making the decision of whom you can & can't talk to on your behalf; whether or not you asked them for it.
if you care about your agency on this social media platform; try switching or joining another instance that treats you like an adult that can make your own decisions.
pick one that doesn't defederate and their attempts to decide on your behalf will become self defeating and you'll still be able to participate here.
This is a bad take. Server admins have the final say on who they federate with. I prefer to be on an instance that bans tankies and other poorly moderated instances. Heck, I support defederating with lemmy.ml because it's users seem to be confused about what freedom is.
they’re making the decision of whom you can & can’t talk to on your behalf
Anyone who wants to spool up an alt on a defederated server is welcome to do so. We suck at totalitarianism.
they're making the decision of whom you can & can't talk to on your behalf
If I want to talk to people on a defederated instance, I can create an account on the defederated instance. Nobody has made any decision for me. You seem unhinged.
whether or not you asked them for it
Admins having the power to decide to defederate is implied simply by being a Lemmy server. It cannot be any other way. The only "asking" that occurs in this situation is a user asking permission to sign up, create an account and use the server where the admins necessarily have that power.
You are correct that it is a requirement for all communities hosted on this instance to be actively moderated within instance principles.
I approve when a server defederates from instances that have a large number of bad faith actors. Like strawman arguments, "examples of clueless tankies," attempting to disguise the fact that they are as numerous as they are toxic. Like, "treated like an adult," as an adult I'd like to not read rude and childish nonsense coming out of Hexbear.
If someone would suggest an instance that excludes hexbear, lemmygrad, and .ml I would like that. Lemmy.world is 2/3, that's nice. I assume the instance is only federated with .ml because .ml has some of the bigger communities. Unfortunately the .ml admins are actively participating in delusional thinking and silencing anyone who disagrees. Sounds like deciding for you whom you can and can't talk to, but that must be totally different for some reason.
Wah wah we were relentlessly mean to people and now they don't want to talk to us
pick one that doesn't defederate and their attempts to decide on your behalf will become self defeating and you'll still be able to participate here.
I did that back when .world defederated from lemmygrad!
And then I spent a week on Lemmy and had to block all the affiliated instances and user FOR MYSELF like a true ALPHA so I could actually use the website.
This election cycle really has drawn them out like sap from a maple tree, don't ya think?
Tankies. Gross.
No, it is the children who are wrong
What took so long?
Defederation is the nuclear option. Until now we had removed any communities we weren't comfortable hosting, and treated users on a case-by-case basis based on how they behaved in our communities, which worked for a while but became untenable.
When we started this project the admin team felt that welcoming outsiders into our (wholesome, sane) Star Trek communities was the net-positive action. But as I said it became too much to handle so we unfortunately had to cut the cord.
Good move.
I trust you'll defed from .world too right?
I trust you'll defed from
.world.ml too right?
FTFY. Your instance is just hexbear/lemmygrad lite
Not propaganda when mods agree with it, duh. I look forward to people cheering this defederation crying "censorship" when they post an unhinged rant on an ml instance and get moderated.
It's not propaganda when liberalism
Seriously! When I browse "all" the timeline is absolutely choked with insipid liberal political propaganda coming from .world.
I love when bigoted instances make themselves known so openly. Sucks you people never learned any values presented in Star Trek.
Ew look, a bOrG
hangs out on a Star Trek instance
demands ban of everybody but total capitalism simps
This, kids, is what is known as "ragebait". Very lame ragebait, may I add.