What is lemmy.world doing defederating before hexbear even federates? lemmy.world/instances

This is what it took to defederate from exploding-heads after being federated with them since the start of lemmy.world

https://lemmy.world/post/747912?scrollToComments=true

What evidence do you have of hexbear breaking the lemmy or citizen code of conduct?

Has the criteria for defederation changed?

Hexbear is one of the largest and most active lemmy instances:

Compared to lemmy.ml:

Compared to lemm.ee:

and lemmy.world:

  • taiyang@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Huh, I never looked at the instance statistics next to each other. Neat.

    I read that Hexbear federating post and… Idk, seems all fine except for the very explicit stance on the Russian Invasion of Ukraine (especially regarding Donbas). Not exactly a popular stance.

    None the less, the only way to avoid echo chambers is to federate broadly; probably the main reason lemmygrad remains federated. Hexbear personally gives me a headache, but I’d like to see why the largest instance wants to avoid the exchange of ideas. (I bet it’s bot related).

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      1 year ago

      There’s a post on hexbear explicitly about creating bots to brigade other instances, money’s on that being a part of it

      • Carcosa@lemmygrad.ml
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        1 year ago

        No there isn’t, provide proof. I look at every single post and can’t recall a single one about making bots to brigade.