so basically before federation began there was a poll on hexbear regarding whether we should federate with a blacklist or a whitelist approach to federation or just stay entirely defederated as a walled garden, then there was a thread discussing what instances to federate with (once itd been decided that we’d federate using a whitelist), then a few days later there was a thread discussing any instances that there was contention about in the first thread and a poll on the most controversial ones. The admins also host regular internal discussions for hexbear users over moderation decisions and its encouraged for anyone who has trouble with how we currently federate or ban policy to bring it up to the mods and community in the c/hexbear comm.
Anyway, during the first few rounds of federation discussions we decided against adding any kbin instances to the white list because of how poor the functionality of kbin is for moderation (apparently only one moderator per comm can be appointed and reports work really weirdly, idk i wasn’t really that invested at the time over the technical aspects of the kbin software so im probably misrembering certain aspects) causing a lot of bigots to get by for ages before being banned on their instance (iirc blahaj also temporarily defedded one of the larger kbin instances at one point for the same reason)
maybe at some point we’ll federate with kbin maybe we wont, but rn the community is tending towards no.
Does “we” mean like a subcommunity on hexbear disagreeing with federation?
to answer this, yes there were a ton of different groups that arose in the lead up to and immediate aftermath of federation where there was some internal drama about it (including some that wanted to straight up defederate everyone), but like describing all the internal struggle sessions about federation we had as a community is beyond me rn (i was on the pro federation side for the record), like even explaining the struggle session we had months before federation over rock stacking would be more fun (i still dont have the energy rn though).
Yeah fair enough. I’m still kind of invested in this drama because I was sort of unhappy with how the hexbear admins handled it (Ada’s complaint about the turnaround time was valid imo). Even switched from blahaj to hexbear and then to lemmee (because it federates with both lol)
so basically before federation began there was a poll on hexbear regarding whether we should federate with a blacklist or a whitelist approach to federation or just stay entirely defederated as a walled garden, then there was a thread discussing what instances to federate with (once itd been decided that we’d federate using a whitelist), then a few days later there was a thread discussing any instances that there was contention about in the first thread and a poll on the most controversial ones. The admins also host regular internal discussions for hexbear users over moderation decisions and its encouraged for anyone who has trouble with how we currently federate or ban policy to bring it up to the mods and community in the c/hexbear comm.
Anyway, during the first few rounds of federation discussions we decided against adding any kbin instances to the white list because of how poor the functionality of kbin is for moderation (apparently only one moderator per comm can be appointed and reports work really weirdly, idk i wasn’t really that invested at the time over the technical aspects of the kbin software so im probably misrembering certain aspects) causing a lot of bigots to get by for ages before being banned on their instance (iirc blahaj also temporarily defedded one of the larger kbin instances at one point for the same reason)
maybe at some point we’ll federate with kbin maybe we wont, but rn the community is tending towards no.
to answer this, yes there were a ton of different groups that arose in the lead up to and immediate aftermath of federation where there was some internal drama about it (including some that wanted to straight up defederate everyone), but like describing all the internal struggle sessions about federation we had as a community is beyond me rn (i was on the pro federation side for the record), like even explaining the struggle session we had months before federation over rock stacking would be more fun (i still dont have the energy rn though).
Yeah fair enough. I’m still kind of invested in this drama because I was sort of unhappy with how the hexbear admins handled it (Ada’s complaint about the turnaround time was valid imo). Even switched from blahaj to hexbear and then to lemmee (because it federates with both lol)