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Should we defederate from Hexbear? (lemmings.world)
submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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As the title says, should we defederate from them? They are generally very spammy and most of Lemmy agrees that they don't contribute to the discussion in a meaningful way. At the same time they don't break any of the rules that would cause me to defederate from them, so I thought I'd ask you, the instance users, what do you want.

Please comment what you think, this post will stay pinned for two days and afterwards we will either defederate or not.

P.S. If you ever feel like some instance would be better defederated from, do let me know! I'll either defederate straight away if they break any of the rules, or create a post like this to let our users vote.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

My personal belief is to not defederate unless they are breaking rules/harassing people. It's fine to express one's opinion respectfully even if it's a different one. Otherwise, soon Fediverse will be divided into silos (kind of similar to what the recommendation algos on social media that drive people into echo chamber of followers/posts).

I read somewhere that they don't have downvotes on their instance, so they have a habit of leaving comments.