I wouldn't call hexbear faded in the slightest. You may have them hidden/blocked/whatever to that effect
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It's specific to the upcoming update with the proto-frames where they're still obviously human, and are specific characters rather than generic warframes
Ml is run by the creators of Lemmy, and hexbear is well... Not. Hexbear made their own fork of lemmy a long time ago and only in the past year or so have they been actually able to federate at all. I don't see the creators of Lemmy going through all that effort to hide their identities if they were actually running hexbear behind the scenes
Only reasonable explanation I can come up with is that I installed it before this requirement was made and my install is grandfathered in
Without a nightly or dev version I'm running bypass paywalls clean from github, persistently on the latest Firefox desktop release. I do not believe it's signed by Mozilla, but I could be wrong
On mobile that may be the case, but on desktop you can definitely install extensions not signed by Mozilla
I would advise against the water soluble wrapper pods since they're iirc a major contributor to microplastics in our water
From Tumblr, I'd bet?
Fair point!
Ah you're right, I just read what I thought was there probably because of the subtext op gave. It was just a university lab in Indiana. The only connection then is that some of the people that worked on it are (assuming here) Chinese
MAUs is a decent measure, but last I know (admittedly old data) Hexbear had quite the outsized post/comment rate for their users compared to other instances. I don't know if the higher MAU count on the other instances counterbalance that at this point, but I think that's at least worth something in determining the size of their presence on the fediverse