I almost commented this reply from my lemmy.world account, but I decided to switch to be commenting from my midwest.social account - an explicitly leftist server - to back up my assertion that I’ve not seen any indication that lemmy.world is anti-left with demonstration of the federation between the servers. Idk why the defederation happened, but I’m skeptical of the idea that it was simply the fact of their leftism.
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rockSlayer@lemmy.world 11 months agoI don’t want to get into it right now because it’s late for me, but from my perspective it very much appears like it’s along ideological lines. I have been scrolling through hexbear for the last couple hours trying to find other signs of bad behavior, and I haven’t seen anything that stands out. I figured scrolling through active posts would be a better indicator of what they’re like, and it’s mostly articles and leftist humor. Our community doesn’t have a lot of humor, but there is a lot of articles
the_itsb@midwest.social 11 months ago
rockSlayer@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I don’t want to speculate on their reasoning, but everything about it seems like it was reactionary to their statements about the IMF, NATO, and the World Bank. Those are pretty milquetoast leftist opinions. I don’t think that they’re actively trying to be anti-left yet, but signs are there and I want to make sure the leftism community isn’t breaking the same rules hexbear did
honeynut@lemm.ee 11 months ago
honestly it’s probably a minor part of the decision. IMO the admins on world just seem like they wanna have the final say on things and felt threatened by the potential influence of a larger instance. If hexbear were as small as lemmygrad or newer than world, it probably wouldn’t have been a big deal for them.
rockSlayer@lemmy.world 11 months ago
You know what, that actually makes sense. Nothing else about the situation made sense other than “we’re anti-communist now”, so it was a pretty easy shark to jump. If there isn’t a rules update within the next couple weeks, I think this is the most likely reason they went with defederation.
kabe@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I wouldn’t say so at all. The admins took the decision to defederate from the alt-right explodingheads.com instance because the content there broke the servers rules here, and they made a similar judgment with HexBear because of their apparent intention to brigade.
For the record, I personally think the call to defederate with HB was premature. That said, the admins here seem to more or less apolitical band more concerned with protecting their users.
rockSlayer@lemmy.world 11 months ago
From what I recall about the exploding-heads debacle, there was a lot of polls and hand-wringing before defederating. An actual last resort. I spent hours on hexbear last night, it seemed like they mostly shitpost in the comments. Nothing I saw indicated that they were going to brigade or harass people on LW.
kabe@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Have you read the admin’s explanation post? They cited posts from HexBear admins which suggested they were intending to stir things up on other instances after federation?
Again, I don’t necessarily agree with the decision, but either way it seems to not be about political ideology as much as keeping out unpleasant behavior.
rockSlayer@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I saw them referring to a year old post about brigading Reddit which saw major pushback from the community, is that what you mean? Like I said in other comments, I was on HB for hours last night and didn’t see anything that stood out as a threat to LW.
Blamemeta@lemmy.world 11 months ago
The first time is always the hardest. After that, its easy, because theres precedent.