I don’t know why this take hits me so hard. It’s so utterly comical in my brain. It’s such a bizarre idea to me that we’re going to be bleeding the users who have been here when it was literally only hexbear after a week or two of federation because, what, do they think their posting power is going to sway people over there? This is one of the least controversial site decisions to have happened over on this side of the coin. The idea of this being a phenomenon that will happen with multiple, let alone even one of our pre-federation users is so utterly incompatible with my mental model of Hexbear that I can’t fucking get over it. It’s fucking fascinating 
if you are one of these people planning to exodus to blahaj full-time please let me know because it’s too good of a bit to keep to yourself
If rock-stacking discourse didn’t dislodge me, nothing will
im glued in here guys
like fr no place is better for my ptsd other than some extremely niche hobby communities that focus solely on one topic with no problematic bits to see. i come here for news and stuff.
Just the existence of 196 on that site makes it awful. Why did they see fit to host a bunch of transphobic, nationalist edgelords? Comments I’ve seen from there make me think their own userbase is unsure about staying.
https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/comment/2137332
it’s always the same comment
[…] being exposed to Hexbear’s community and content has made me extremely concerned. […] There are posts denying genocide, calls to violence, blatant Russian propaganda, apologists galore for authoritarianism, and the constant assurance that anyone not agreeing with these ideas was obviously a Fascist.
We’ve certainly gotten some people migrating from there
When we nuke lemm.ee I expect the same
WhyEssEff’s point aside, I think people are too reddit brained or VC brained or something. Not to say that people ought to make accounts at blahaj but there is no contradiction by having two accounts on two different forums. This is what people used to do in the bad old days (but really good old days) before reddit and facebook and other VC-backed sites civilized the internet with unified logins. You do not have to leave one instance to join another. PHPBB never had federation, people would sign up to them based on their interests and maybe use the same username or use a different one or whatever. No big deal.
Anyway federation seems like a half-baked way to replicate reddit (complete with all the fuckin rules). But is it really worth replicating?
it’s worth it for the dunking.
It’s far more likely they’ll hemorrhage a chunk of users to us, which seems to already be happening since this is just the superior space for trans people to feel safe and welcome.
The best part is that I know for sure a few blahaj members have opened accounts here.
I’m announcing my move to Blahaj.
Ass exitus.
My brain can’t wrap myself around this comment because it so obviously means they’re migrating over here
The lack of slurs here has made me really consider jumping ship
i know i can get in a cutthroat debate over here over the amount of communists that can fit on the head of a pin and not block/ban anybody involved, have a fun time with the same people the next day—what the fuck could they possibly offer superior to that?
Casual ableism and demanding you vote blue no matter who, even if you aren’t American?
So did hexbear ended up defederating from blahaj? Last I saw there was a statement from the hexbear community over on blahaj. Now blahaj said something like hexbear instantly defederated while blahaj admin was asleep and couldn’t take care of the problems. Interesting how hexbear defederated this time, oh how the turns have tabled.
yeah, we defederated. it wasn’t worth subjecting vulnerable members of our community to transphobia, ableism, and racism coming from or being defended by the mod team. “taking care of the problem” in their eyes was a scolding while on hexbear we’ve permabanned site mods for far less. our mod team made the call and the userbase was unanimously in support of the decision.
Yes I’m sure the people that have been here for 3 years without any federation are going to leave because they aren’t federated with chasers that say “people of nato” anymore.
Absolutely wild take.
