can we please defederate from hexbear

Why? They think my jokes are funny.
- it's true

- Connect for Lemmy can also block by instance. Cleared all the porn out of my feed in a couple taps, it's great.
- This doesn't work. I blocked hexbear but the users comments are still here
- I hate this logic. If we aren’t supposed to defederate, then we shouldn’t have the option. It is a core feature of the fediverse. It can and should be used.
  All of y’all who talk like this need to go back to Reddit. This is not Reddit. We need to use the tools available to us to keep out bad actors. Build up your own instance if you want to let every asshole through the door.

No I don't know why. What have they done to you?

You all know why
Why tho
- "They bully me whenever I do a bigotry"
- Ass too fat

The Lemm.ee admin talked about it here
TL;DR: This instance wants to federate with everyone as much as possible. You can block hexbear communities if you'd like.
I have like 60 communities blocked by now but it feels nice to make my own choices.
- Many people are very triggered in that post and I don't get it.
  No platform is gonna have only decent users and only content you agree with. Resorting to defederation from any instance that is offensive to some people just damages what lemmy is trying to be tbh.
  Eventually instances following that mindset will be isolated because there's always someone out there who wants to impose their own content curation (like no NSFW, no politics, no trolling, no memes, etc...)
  Users should make the calls for what they want to see on an individual level. Thanks to the admin for sticking to fair policies.
  
  I blocked hexbear, but commenters still show up in non-hexbear threads. Is this a bug, or do I just have to deal with it?
- Fuck, prime lemmy is done. It's all downhill from here folks
- I am watching instances on the fediverse once again fall into the trappings of giving too much benefit of the doubt/giving too much commitment to some flawed notion of “free speech” and all I can think about is how that is 90% of what ruins any quality community that starts gaining traction online.
  If this is the road we’re going down we may as well leave now. I’m tired of seeing this happen over and over again.
  Admins: y’all need to be more liberal with the ban hammer. You also need to defederate from communities that are so blatantly toxic and fucked up. There are enough people out there now that we don’t need to be hanging out with literally any person who expresses interest in the fediverse. It’s time to exercise a little bit of discernment. Your generosity will be used against you like a cudgel. Make no mistake.
  Defederate. It’s the right call.

I second that motion. Those guys are just the worst.

User goes into a ML space, calls Stalin a "shitbag," gets called a shitbag back, and now they want to defederate because they can't take what they dish out lmao.

hi
I really do wanna be friends but I'm feeling some hostility

Maybe I'm just living under a rock but I hadn't even heard of, let alone seen, Hexbear prior to this post and had to do a search to see what you were talking about. ¯(ツ)_/¯
- They're absolutely harmless, and I don't understand the recent hubbub. Their culture is a bit strange, but they mostly seem to just want to shitpost about politics in peace. They won't bother you unless you say "defederate hexbear" 3 times in a mirror, and then they swarm, I think just wanting hugs or something.
  
  I for one would absolutely like some hugs instead
  
  Who tf doesn't want hugs?
  
  All I see from there is random word spam that all have a link to stupid images from there.
  That's why I want it de-federated.
- We're one of the oldest and by far most established and active community on the lemmyverse. Our instance was forked for a long time because of some backend issues with how our admins wanted pronouns to work on our usernames for example. Just last week we finished updating the site such that we're compatible again and merged. OP is big mad that we're very populated and active so it feels like we're 'brigading' when a thread gets popular. It could also be that we're militantly pro-lgbt (if the pronouns didn't tip you off) and ideologically leftist (usually marxist-lenninists but we have a fair number of anarchist comrades as well).
  We're kind of having a laugh at all these people who joined 1-2 months ago from reddit having culture shock at the new site and demand the furniture be arranged to their taste. It could also be as one of us mentioned on a separate thread that OP was doing some casual homophobia and boy do we like bullying people like them. If you sort your lemmy feed by all and sort by active, you'll see posts with hundreds of comments where we're arguing about bigotry like that, disinformation, western chauvinism, ect.
  The community was originally on Reddit as /r/chapotraphouse until we along with most other explicitly leftist subs were banned. We've been here for three years ever since.
- It's a site full to the brim with liberals
- We're very scarry

I think hexbear should be able to federate because the alternative is censorship
- pardox of tolerance

We have such sights to show you.

There can be no true despair without hope.

This comment section is a prime example. They brigade every single post about China/Russia or about them, and if you find one there are ten others there as well. If you think lemmygrad is bad, hexbear is way worse.
- "When we shit talk a community, members of the community respond. Must be a brigade."
- Removed Comment
  by PM_ME_YOUR_FOUCAULTS [he/him, they/them]
  reason: I hope you're just trying to make an edgy joke, but even so, Soviet symbolism has no place on lemm.ee.

I'm sure these comments will be normal

I'm actually pretty confused, because according to hexbear, they're not federated with sh.itjust.works but when I view this post from my sh.itjust account, i see WAAAAAY more comments...