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Hexbear was the only lemmy for 4 years, over that time their code base diverged, it took a few months to make federation possible again… a lot of users opposed federation concerns about harassment or just valuing one of the few leftist communities. The end result was slow federation, with users suggesting specific instances to federate with, and instances getting defederated if the admins failed to take adequate action against transphobes/chasers.

Now there’s two of us that are speaking truth.

Half this thread is hexbears and others telling people exactly what they believe about random topics.

Are they? That wouldn’t be thematically consistent with their years of telling others what they’d like to hear for their entertainment. Their culture is selfish in that way.

There was never a consensus on whether HB should be segregated

There was never formal consensus in that leadership repeatedly denied the vote, favoring a granular, instance-by-instance approach.

What are you talking about?

An organized, grassroots movement that employed questionable means to force the wisest decision upon leadership and everyone else.

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alcoholicorn@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

That wouldn’t be thematically consistent with their years of telling others what they’d like to hear for their entertainment.

What?

There was never formal consensus in that leadership repeatedly denied the vote, favoring a granular, instance-by-instance approach.

Here’s the vote that approved the granular instance-by-instance approach

An organized, grassroots movement that employed questionable means to force the wisest decision upon leadership and everyone else.

Are you describing the consensus building and struggle sessions as forcing the wisest decision on everyone?

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- SirDerpy@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  
  Here’s the vote that approved the granular instance-by-instance approach
  
  And then what happened? It seems like you were present for awhile but perhaps not in the trenches, through the OpSec, and to the end.
  
  What?
  
  Indeed.
  
  Are you describing the consensus building and struggle sessions as “forcing the wisest decision on everyone”?
  
  Q: Why did hexbear brigade the fediverse?
  
  A: Certainly for the lulz. /s
  
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  - alcoholicorn@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    
    And then what happened?
    
    People nominated instances here and when/if people had concerns, there’d be a megathread discussing/voting on defederation.
    
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    SirDerpy@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    You’ve forgotten to mention the minority that did not agree and how strongly they believed they were correct. You’ve seemingly not considered that democracy’s best case scenario is mediocrity.
    
    We will not be led by or stagnate upon popularity among the lumpen. Democracy be damned when faced with such a threat. We did what the majority could not do.
    
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