Sorry (🍁) we did this without making a post, but after receiving several complaints we defederated from hexbear.net yesterday.

Here’s a few quick examples of poor conduct by hexbear users:

They warned their users to behave themselves, but that didn’t work: https://hexbear.net/post/280770?scrollToComments=false

Please read and respect the rules of the community instance in which you are posting/commenting. Please try to keep the dirtbag lib-dunking to hexbear itself. Do not follow the Chapo Rules of Posting, instead try to engage utilizing informed rhetoric with sources to dismantle western propaganda. Posting the western atrocity propaganda and pig poop balls is hilarious but will pretty quickly get you banned and if enough of us do it defederated. Realize that you are a representative of the hexbear instance when you post on other instances.

  • jerkface@lemmy.caEnglish
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    3 months ago

    I have been visiting hexbear recently. I have discovered that there is a great deal of content there that is important to me and that I have been “protected” from. It’s clearly a legitimate instance with a dedicated administration team. The Lemmiverse is moving fast and changing dramatically. Would @Shadow@lemmy.ca, @smorks@lemmy.ca, et al consider reviewing this decision now that it is about a year later?

    • Shadow@lemmy.caOPMEnglish
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      3 months ago

      Always open to reconsidering things. Can you give some examples of the content you’re missing?

      Tbh when I go look at their local feed it just seems like all shitposts

      • jerkface@lemmy.caEnglish
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        3 months ago

        For example, c/food is the best general population food forum I’ve ever seen for my particular needs. A lot of the non-vegan parts of the site is not just tolerant but considerate to vegans. That’s frigging unheard of. I don’t know what the big deal with shit posters is, but that is hardly the only or defining feature of the culture.

        I feel like if you wade into a community you’re not a member of and don’t understand looking for shit posts, a lot of things are going to look like shit posts.