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?
You’re perhaps confusing Hexbear with Lemmygrad, the other poop-flinging, predominantly Marxist-Leninist instance? Hexbear being open to federation is a pretty recent development on their part; I don’t remember them ever being on the blocklist.