You all know why
Why? They think my jokes are funny.
I hate this logic. If we aren’t supposed to defederate, then we shouldn’t have the option. It is a core feature of the fediverse. It can and should be used.
All of y’all who talk like this need to go back to Reddit. This is not Reddit. We need to use the tools available to us to keep out bad actors. Build up your own instance if you want to let every asshole through the door.
No I don’t know why. What have they done to you?
You all know why
Why tho
The Lemm.ee admin talked about it here
TL;DR: This instance wants to federate with everyone as much as possible. You can block hexbear communities if you’d like.
I have like 60 communities blocked by now but it feels nice to make my own choices.
Many people are very triggered in that post and I don’t get it.
No platform is gonna have only decent users and only content you agree with. Resorting to defederation from any instance that is offensive to some people just damages what lemmy is trying to be tbh.
Eventually instances following that mindset will be isolated because there’s always someone out there who wants to impose their own content curation (like no NSFW, no politics, no trolling, no memes, etc…)
Users should make the calls for what they want to see on an individual level. Thanks to the admin for sticking to fair policies.
I blocked hexbear, but commenters still show up in non-hexbear threads. Is this a bug, or do I just have to deal with it?
I am watching instances on the fediverse once again fall into the trappings of giving too much benefit of the doubt/giving too much commitment to some flawed notion of “free speech” and all I can think about is how that is 90% of what ruins any quality community that starts gaining traction online.
If this is the road we’re going down we may as well leave now. I’m tired of seeing this happen over and over again. 
Admins: y’all need to be more liberal with the ban hammer. You also need to defederate from communities that are so blatantly toxic and fucked up. There are enough people out there now that we don’t need to be hanging out with literally any person who expresses interest in the fediverse. It’s time to exercise a little bit of discernment. Your generosity will be used against you like a cudgel. Make no mistake.
Defederate. It’s the right call.
