This is an admin post, intended for blahaj lemmy users. Top level posts from members of other instances will be removed.

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Edit - Hexbear announced plans to deferedate from us.

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After recent events, it feels to me that sentiment has shifted and more people are asking for defederation of hexbear than previously

I’ve been doing my best to try and mend bridges and keep us connected, as it’s my hope that we can maintain trans solidarity and work with them, despite the friction, however, ultimately, I feel that this is an issue for the blahaj lemmy community to decide, not the admins alone

So here’s what we’re going to do

We’re going to leave things as they are for a week. That will give time for things to calm down whilst we see if we can work together. After a week, I’ll put up a vote and get a feel for where the community is at in regards to our continued federation with hexbear. That poll will run for a week. If there is a strong will to defederate (a clear majority), then that’s what we will do

  • hollyberries@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    29·
    1 year ago

    Thanks for the update, Ada. I am so so sorry that you suffered so much abuse the past few days from users of both instances. Shame on everyone involved. Every. Last. One.

    I got a bad vibe from Hexbear when I saw a borderline transphobic chapotraphouse post in my local feed. I blocked that community and have not seen anything bad since. That “community” was also a shithole on the other place, so I’m not missing much.

    Thanks for all that you do, you’re basically our Fedi mom, talking to the other parents lol

    • valpackett@lemmy.blahaj.zone
      5·
      1 year ago

      Back in the day on the other place it was a very good community. Way back in the day. Before the quarantine and takeover and whatever the hell else happened since…

      • hollyberries@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
        4·
        1 year ago

        I didn’t know that. I used to browse /all regularly and rarely saw it pop up. It kinda blew up out of nowhere and took over /all for a while which is when I felt like it was being toxic af so I blocked it there too. I do remember thinking some were funny at first, and then the novelty wore off quickly.

        • Strawberry@lemmy.blahaj.zone
          3·
          1 year ago

          They only recently federated after a few years of being an isolated instance. A6o the explosion was them initially federating and their users going out into the fediverse to see what was up