Reason I’m asking is because I used to have an account here, but I got locked out of my Bitwarden (and thus loss access to the password) so I just decided it’s a good opportunity to try out new instances. I remember hexbear being blocked last time I used dbzer0? Did I remember wrong? If hexbear was blocked, why did you decide to refederate? I thought this instance didn’t like tankies?
Well, if it happened like you said it did, it coule likely be that dbzer0 is against censorship. Anything that does not happen on their own instance they are not responsible for. lemmy.world has been criticized because of censorship. It’s one of the reasons why people left reddit in the first place. Not allowing communities they do not align with on their own instance is a lot closer to true “fReEdOm Of SpEeCh” (lmao) than outright defederating. Seeing as most users on this instance did likely not even read the code of conduct and probably do not even know what a tanky is, there are probably a bunch of new lemmy users that just chose some large instance, without worrying too much about the technical aspect. Such users do not necessarily benefit from censorship.
To be clear, this is just what I could think of. This is not based on some opinion of mine. I have no idea why they refederated. I also don’t know anything about the hexbear instance.
See here’s the thing: if dbzer0 federated with everyone, that would be very easy to understand. But defederating lemmygrad while federating hexbear??? I mean be consistent, either block both or neither. Blocking only one is very odd to me. It’s like locking the driver’s side of your car, and leaving the passenger side’s door wide open.
I’m not criticizing the policies or anything, I’m just confused, especially if hexbear was already defederated. I mean like… instance owners can do whatever they want, I don’t really care since they own the instance, I’m just confused why federation/defederation policies are so inconsistent.
This post is me trying resolve my confusion. Please do not misunderstand my intent, I respect your right to make your own decisions.
Yeah I absolutely get what you mean. But as I said. What I said is not my opinion, it’s a possible explanation. I don’t really give two craps about politics.
Lemmygrad is explicitly sectarian. Hexbear is not, even if it has a majority of ML users.
There is an anarchism community in Hexbear.