I’m just not so cool with dealing with people that justify genocide, y’know? Or glorify the USSR and China, while refusing to acknowledge the horrible abuses that happened–and continue to happen in China–under nominally communist governments. Anarchists–that would be people like me–were historically murdered by communist parties and governents as being ‘counter-revolutionary’. I can recognize that the US is a cesspool, but the fact that the US is so often on the wrong moral side doesn’t mean that the USSR was or China is on the right moral side; both can be wrongin different ways. Lemmygrad (and Hexbear to a large extent) refuse to recognize that.

The instance blocking feature you speak of only blocks communities, it won’t block users from the instance, it says this right on the change log for 0.19 on join-lemmy.org

Users can now block instances. Similar to community blocks, it means that any posts from communities which are hosted on that instance are hidden. However the block doesn’t affect users from the blocked instance, their posts and comments can still be seen normally in other communities.

So the deep cultural and behavioral problems with these instance aren’t solved by this instance blocking implementation like everyone says, it can’t be considered a replacement for defederation or moderation. I really hope that people, especially Admins realize this before making decisions to refederate, otherwise it could end badly.

The “proof” in the hexbear defederation post has nothing to do with a “call out for total war with other instances” but nice try again with the lies. The comments show that hexbear believes it has an ideological duty to engage in discussion on any current event, post of politics, or news post. The post links states clearly that “breaking the hexbear code of conduct on another instance will result in a ban on hexbear” I’ve compared the lemmy.world terms of service and the hexbear one and can’t find any difference so how exactly is hexbear telling its users to engage in other instances posts while respecting their code of conduct something deserving of “preemptive defederation”

I accept your apology, Antik made the same one. It is clear that lemmy.world had no desire to have a dedicated leftist community federated, which is fine, just say that you are defederated for ideological/political differences. If you want to create the neoliberal instance, more power to you, but to say anything otherwise requires actual proof rather than vague claims.

So you can try out a well-known instance of fascist trolls that frequently used slurs as well as made posts explicitly describing what instance to sign up on, and what posts to target with copy/paste, slur-ridden messages? However, an instance that wants to engage in sourced discussion of current events receives a “last resort, preemptive defederation” this massive disparity in response shows that the admins of lemmy.world are willing to give hateful nazi instances a chance, but won’t even let a leftist instance in the door.

Double the reports of what?? There could not have been any user reports of hexbear posts/comments as IT NEVER EVEN FEDERATED with lemmy.world. You won’t even remove @[email protected] communities from lemmy.world