Since the federation the comment sections got so inflammatory. Literally everything gets turned into some political “capitalism bad” or “the west bad” discussion. It made Lemmy very annoying for me to use…
@milan any update or opinion on this?
I consider myself to be radical left-wing, but 95% of the content on hexbear is completely useless. It’s an echo-chamber for whiney bitch-ass tanky trolls, powerlessly memeing their lives away and not contributing anything even to their marginalized corner of political discourse.
That being said: I say don’t defederate. They might behave like idiots sometimes, but defederating weakens the network as a whole and the cost is disproportionate to the benefit in this case.
supposedly there’s a feature coming to Lemmy Soon™ that will allow us to block instances as a user. If hexbear hasn’t been defederated by then, I’m most definitely going to use it to block hexbear. I really do not want that toxicity showing up anywhere
No.
This is how you kill the fediverse. I don’t think people enjoy hopping from instance to instance & eventually they’ll stop altogether.
Fair enough if it the content is illegal, but we shouldn’t defederate just because the content annoys you or you don’t agree with it.
What if it will annoy a big percentage of normal users?
E.g. would you enjoy having exploding-heads content in your feed?
instance hopping should be normal: i have 8 accounts simultaneously open in my Connect app. Also connect allows u to hide comments from filtered (blocked) insntance of ur choice, including hexbear.
No it hurts everyone over some random shit no one cares about. Just dont do it. It just drives users off to the least restrictive instance.
