Hello users of Hexbear with the upcoming version of lemmy 0.19.4 we will be able to change local communities’ federation to local only however it is experimental as they are developing private communities.
In a previous federation discussion, we stated that we would temporarily remove lemm.ee from our allow-list until hexbear communities and users have the means by which to set hexbear communities to not federate out, restricting it to hexbear users. Now that this tool is available, we will refederate with lemm.ee after we complete the update.
Please use this post to discuss federation in general, as well as provide feedback to the hexbear mod and admin team in regard to federation.
List of current federated instances on hexbear's allow-list
spectreofcommunism.boo akkoma
feddit.uk lemmy
lemmygrad.ml lemmy
transwo.men akkoma
sloth.run sharkey
endlesstalk.org lemmy
infosec.pub lemmy
akko.wtf akkoma
ursal.zone mastodon
suppo.fi lemmy
redpawcollective.co mastodon
social.harpia.red akkoma
piefed.social PieFed
szmer.info lemmy
procial.tchncs.de Firefish
lemmy.today lemmy
lgbtqia.space mastodon
feddit.nu lemmy
novo-atlantis.null.media akkoma
feddit.it lemmy
whiskers.bim.boats lemmy
lemmy.kde.social lemmy
lemmy.myserv.one lemmy
poweredbygay.social mastodon
tankie.tube peertube
lgbt.io mastodon
vegantheoryclub.org lemmy
mander.xyz lemmy
midwest.social lemmy
lemmy.glasgow.social lemmy
transfem.space lemmy
scribe.disroot.org lemmy
dormi.zone lemmy
transfem.social sharkey
bookwormstory.social lemmy
lemmy.wtf lemmy
orcas.enjoying.yachts lemmy
eviltoast.org lemmy
toast.ooo lemmy
lemmy.max-p.me lemmy
reddthat.com lemmy
lemmy.zip lemmy
urbanists.social mastodon
blackqueer.life mastodon
undernopretext.social mastodon
mycrowd.ca akkoma
lemmy.studio lemmy
possumpat.io lemmy
lemmy.sdf.org lemmy
union.place mastodon
femboys.bar lemmy
fanaticus.social lemmy
poptalk.scrubbles.tech lemmy
links.hackliberty.org lemmy
feddit.cl lemmy
lemmy.dbzer0.com lemmy
weatherishappening.network mastodon
ttrpg.network lemmy
discuss.online lemmy
thelemmy.club lemmy
monyet.cc lemmy
adultswim.fan lemmy
lemmy.eco.br lemmy
lemmy.radio lemmy
lemdro.id lemmy
codesink.io lemmy
lemmy.blugatch.tube lemmy
pricefield.org lemmy
snowdin.town akkoma
seafoam.space akkoma
toots.matapacos.dog hometown
lemmy.ml lemmy
jlai.lu lemmy
kyberpunk.social lemmy
lemmy.fan lemmy
ljs.social mastodon
outerheaven.club akkoma
feddit.dk lemmy
linux.community lemmy
futurology.today lemmy
mtgzone.com lemmy
lemmy.pt lemmy
startrek.website lemmy
discuss.tchncs.de lemmy
feddit.nl lemmy
lemy.lol lemmy
lemmy.one lemmy
iusearchlinux.fyi lemmy
Previous federation discussion posts
https://hexbear.net/post/277508
https://hexbear.net/post/280770
https://hexbear.net/post/335632
https://hexbear.net/post/369410
https://hexbear.net/post/369412
https://hexbear.net/post/458637
https://hexbear.net/post/504353
https://hexbear.net/post/514276
https://hexbear.net/post/528899
I don’t think this will end well. .ee has always been an instance with a massive reactionary problem and it hasn’t gotten any better. They just recently started hosting a community that was banned from another instance for outright eco-fascism. I get when people have a desire to dunk on nazis, but there’s better ways to do that than to invite the fascists into your living room.
I think it could work out ok. Certain communities intended as safe/exclusive spaces (e.g. !traaaaaaannnnnnnnnns@hexbear.net or !em_poc@hexbear.net) can block .ee, while other communities like !the_dunk_tank@hexbear.net, !history@hexbear.net, or !news@hexbear.net may opt to allow more reactionary visitors for discussion.
I suppose it does remove the option to browse outside of ‘subscribed’ for those who want to stay in the safe spaces. The alternative is requiring Hexbear as a site to default to the most exclusive set of instances, which may be more strict than some Hexbears want or need.
Yeah, i get the idea behind this and it’s kinda interesting as an experiment. I absolutely appreciate the functionality behind it and i also get that my extremely negative views on federation don’t have a majority on this site. Like, if it was up to me, we wouldn’t even be federated with .ml or grad, and that’s obviously not something most users here would go along with. So keeping some comms internal and others public-facing seems like a viable compromise in general.
I’m just saying i have a bad feeling about how it will turn out in this specific case. .ee always had a way too large share of problematic users and that can’t get any better after they’ve just lifeboated a bunch of literal death cultists.
I may not be for blocking ee on traa, will need to dig through the modlog and see how important that is Edit: Yeah it appears we had no removals from ee, seems fine
Most off-site removals were from sjw and discuss.de