We need some time to stabilize the technical changes we just did, but I have trust in our mod team to guide us through the next phase of federation

Every news / general megathread will hit the front page of Lemmy

I think that we will start slow with lemmygradgrad and stuff. I think “phase 3” will be opening it to all by default (or a highly permissive in general), but only after we have better controls on what comms/posts our guests would be able to see.

Maybe Lemmygrad can do whatever, but megathreads and the politics comm are hidden from most instances. Maybe we have the ability to create a c/local that only users with Hexbear accounts can see.

For those who weren’t here during those dark times, what happened?

Is that what the vegan wars were about? I had no idea. I thought people were just really, really serious about lentils.