https://lemmon.zerobytes.monster/index
it's not just you, the stats bear it out. LW has the worst uptime of any major instance. 92% so far this month according to their own monitoring and worse on bad days. They see a lot of load and have not scaled up enough to resolve it, nor have they restricted user signups at all to spread out new users across the lemmyverse. Seems like a very growth oriented mindset, which I don't love to see spreading to the fediverse.
Physically smaller cars will not make a meaningful dent in traffic, as they still need following distance, still mostly only carry 1 person, and can only shrink so much before you run into limits of human anatomy. They barely even save parking space. They could reverse some of the worst excesses of traffic deaths maybe because you can actually see over the hood and such though.
Public transit, concepts like 15 minute cities, and more biking/micromobility/walking friendly infrastructure are what will actually work. If government won't do it then they've got to go.
it's worth noting that the statement about the war in ukraine is written by the people who run the news megathread, not the whole site, and the degree to which people agree with them seems to vary widely. It's been the subject of a fair amount of arguing on the site in the past.
But the seeming majority opinion of say, lemmy.world, of outright supporting NATO unconditionally is probably further than even the most skeptical hexbear user would go, give or take a few outliers. The majority lie somewhere inbetween, with most people disliking both russia and NATO, and thinking that NATO influence is serving to prolong the war, not shorten it.
So from the perspective of a US liberal they are outliers yes, but they aren't a monolith who all love russia either, and they are very accustomed to being shat on from both sides of the US and EU political spectrum as russian bots, CCP shills, etc. because of their communist views.
what's the line between brigading and just getting into political arguments though? cause hexbear is plenty good at the latter, they used to fight among themselves a lot, but doesn't really have a huge history of the former, they mostly keep to themselves since the reddit ban. Most I've seen is a handful of accounts posting in the defed announcement thread here, which like, fair enough, it was clearly a politically motivated decision. It's hard to believe they'd be any worse than lemmygrad for example, if anything they fit the culture of the wider lemmyverse a lot better (not to say lemmygrad should be defed'ed either by a general purpose instance such as this, but there is more culture shock there than hexbear)
then go to an instance that doesn't have downvotes... Admittedly those instances are also almost exclusively liberal or leftist tho lol
Oh I'm not saying the overall opinions there are ironic and will stay that way, they are very much communists (and a notable minority of anarchists), and that isn't likely to change, just that there's also a lot of shitposting, and the general jokey tone seems to be what convinced admins not to take the "hey guys you have to follow the rules of federated instances when you post there" seriously
Wasn't trying to stir shit, its just interesting (though entirely understandable) how that site gets left out of these kinds of posts. It has a lot of inertia to still have 1500 monthly active users, and a huge amount of content, after >3 years of being split off from reddit and receiving little outside attention
it does basically boil down to what other people have said but I'll elaborate.
The reasons are political disagreements from the admins of lemmy.world, and them taking the site's zealous left-wing opinions and shitposting culture as prima-facie evidence that hexbear users cannot be trusted not to break lemmy.world rules (unstated which rules) by pushing "their beliefs and ideology". It almost sounds reasonable until you think about it like, at all. It's an explicitly political instance (though honestly >50% of the posting is just news of the day and banter), so of course the users will by and large have those political opinions and post them. As long as they do so within the rules of lemmy.world I don't see the issue personally.
It's fairly big relative to other lemmy instances because it's been around for over 3 years, and it was a lifeboat site for people that frequented r/chapotraphouse before it was banned from reddit (which was a relatively huge sub).
Over the past year or so they worked to switch from a heavily modified fork of lemmy back to a more modern upstream version of lemmy, mostly by redeveloping and contributing features that were missing, like custom emojis, to upstream lemmy. So now there's more attention being paid since it is now using a federation-compatible version of lemmy and intends to actually federate with a limited subset of the lemmyverse
an import from reddit perhaps? probably someone migrating an entire sub so it's browsable from lemmy
guessing this doesn't include hexbear.net because they aren't federated yet but they have 270k posts and 3.6 million comments on their own, mostly well before the start of this graph, so it ought to start at more like 500k
But I'm so glad to see lemmy taking off properly, not just used for some niches. FOSS internet infrastructure that is accessible to end users is so important, it safeguards a lot of important freedoms, etc.
I would suggest to watch the documentary about the guy who was behind the darkweb site - the silk road.
wait are you trolling? because that guy got caught in the most low-tech way possible. He used the same username when promoting the newly-created Silk Road as he had on a programming forum previously, where he publicly posted his email address containing his full name. All it took to ID him was a bored IRS investigator with access to google search
It is possible to anonymize IP addresses in the logs at the nginx level, I wish more instances would do it.
I mean they can't and don't try to stop you from lying, or even setting it to "none/use name". All it does in reality is filter out transphobes who get triggered by the requirement, and provide a practical way of knowing what to call someone, rather than the reddit approach of always defaulting to "he" (or maybe they in some more liberal subs)
The original phrasing was flawed, yes, but blahaj.zone isn't ideologically neutral.
They are a queer instance, but they aren't just a queer instance, are they? They don't merely accept anyone who is queer (queer racists, or TERF lesbians, for example, wouldn't be welcome), nor do they ban people who aren't queer at all. So the dividing line is ideological.
The line is more like: support for queer rights. They even specifically outline a philosophy of inclusion and empathy in their sidebar. But we wouldn't ban them for trying to spread their ideology
maybe take a look for yourself... you probably don't agree with everything posted there, but the cherrypicked examples aren't representative of the whole instance. In fact there's a sizable amount of people on hexbear.net that don't want to federate period because they don't want to get into political slapfights and be exposed to transphobia/otehr bigotry
Its true in the most literal sense though. I mean hexbear.net originally was called chapo.chat, and was formed after the banning of r/chapotraphouse from reddit, over posting about John Brown and his killing of slaveowners
Looking at the front page things aren’t as bad as the federation rules seem to imply, but on the other hand that’s just what the post-moderation popular vote is like.
you can read the modlog and see what is removed, or sort by new if you want to see less popular posts. It's not incredibly inflammatory stuff
It's a pretty isolated community, so yeah, they may be hostile to outsiders coming into their communities, but people that aren't starting political slapfights are generally treated fine
Ah yes the instance that is like 30-50% transgender and takes an extremely hard line on all bigotry is just like voat and thedonald and nazi 
instances
This video goes over one egregious instance (actually it turned into a bit of a saga, there were followups as well)