Update:
The comments from this post will not be removed as to preserve the discussion around the announcement. Any continued discussions outside of this thread that violate server rules will be removed. We feel that everyone that has an opinion, and wanted to vent, has been heard.

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Original post:
Yesterday, we received information about the planned federation by Hexbear. The announcement thread can be found here: https://www.hexbear.net/post/280770. After reviewing the thread and the comments, it became evident that allowing Hexbear to federate would violate our rules.

Our code of conduct and server rules can be found here.

The announcement included several concerning statements, as highlighted below:

  • “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.”
  • “The West’s role in the world, through organizations such as NATO, the IMF, and the World Bank - among many others - are deeply harmful to the billions of people living both inside and outside of their imperial core.”
  • “These organizations constitute the modern imperial order, with the United States at its heart - we are not fooled by the term “rules-based international order.” It is in the Left’s interest for these organizations to be demolished. When and how this will occur, and what precisely comes after, is the cause of great debate and discussion on this site, but it is necessary for a better world.”

The rhetoric and goal of Hexbar are clear based on their announcement: to “dismantle western propaganda” and "demolish organizations such as NATO” shows that Hexbar has no intention of "respecting the rules of the community instance in which they are posting/commenting.” It’s to push their beliefs and ideology.

In addition, several comments from a Hexbear admin, demonstrate that instance rules will not be respected.

Here are some examples:

“I can assure you there will be no lemmygrad brigades, that energy would be better funneled into the current war against liberalism on the wider fediverse.”

“All loyal, honest, active and upright Communists must unite to oppose the liberal tendencies shown by certain people among us, and set them on the right path. This is one of the tasks on our ideological front.”

Overall community comments:

To clarify, for those who have inquired about why Hexbear versus Lemmygrad, it should be noted that we are currently exploring the possibility of defederating from Lemmygrad as well based on similar comments Hexbear has made.

Defederation should only be considered as a last resort. However, based on their comments and behavior, no positive outcomes can be expected.

We made the decision to preemptively defederate from Hexbear for these reasons. While we understand that not everyone may agree with our decision, we believe it is important to prioritize the best interests of our community.

  • @GraphyEnglish
    -2•11 months ago

    They’re not even federated with lemmyworld lmao.

    Wow, it’s almost as if Beehaw didn’t like that people were doing exactly what the above link was telling people to do.

    And what does this prove?

    That if the first comment tree of what I’m guessing is an admin post is filled with “let’s bother someone” then maybe that’s a red flag.

    “make an account on a place that has access to that other place” is truly horrible stuff! Truly monstrous. They might be able to TALK to people and say “socialism is good actually” :O Like holy shit grow up.

    lol wtf are you going on about

    • Move to lemm.ee
      1•11 months ago

      Wow, it’s almost as if Beehaw didn’t like that people were doing exactly what the above link was telling people to do.

      Mate what part of it being easy to make accounts on Beehaw do you not understand? If you can make an account there, I can make an account there. Get a grip. People will go wherever they want, posing this as some grandiose evil is fucking absurd.

      • @GraphyEnglish
        1•11 months ago

        lol what are you even on if you think the main purpose of any of this was to discuss your ability to get a beehaw account and notbrigading/ban evasion.

        • Move to lemm.ee
          -1•11 months ago

          Nobody has been fucking banned ffs. I have main account on all of the major instances, not banned in any of them.

          • @GraphyEnglish
            1•11 months ago

            I’m very happy for ya, but the thread we were talking about had people asking/telling how to make new accounts because they were banned.