Can we defederate from hexbear.net?
I’m not sure what’s going on over there, but half the time I see a post from there or go into a comment section and it’s just…bad. Like old reddit the_donald bad. Constant trolling, etc. You TS just really bad vibes. I’ve been blocking the communities as they come up, but I’m not sure what else I can do.
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Hexbear has the highest proportion of people with neopronouns in their names that I've seen on the entire fediverse, and for that reason alone I would prefer that they stay federated.
But the brigading, harassment, disinformation campaigns, bad faith arguments, and excessive emoji spam aren't a problem? Those reasons alone are why they need to be defedded. My instance did so yesterday and the site has been all the better for it.
Why are you commenting on this thread when you're not a member of the server?
Lol try that on the hexbear folks
Because I know how much of a problem Hexbear is. They're harmful to every community they flood into with their trolling, brigading and harassment of anyone who disagrees with them. I don't care if this isn't my home instance, I want to spread awareness of this problem so that users here can participate in peace without being bothered by Hexbear's abhorrent behaviour.
But the [5 reasons] aren't a problem?
In my experience, the Hexbears are often weird and annoying and wrong, but not in a way that's illegal or that I think warrants deplatforming. So ideally, in situations like these, the solution would be for individual users to be able to block entire instances and share block-lists with each other. I've heard that this is possible with uBlock Origin and sort of possible with one of the mobile clients, but it really should be a known and user-friendly feature of Lemmy itself.
As long as this isn't a feature, though, then obviously Hexbear should be defederated if that is the will of the majority of Blåhaj Lemmy users. I'm just speaking for my own experience, having not really experienced any of those things you've described. Ten people, ten colors.