Update:
The comments from this post will not be removed as to preserve the discussion around the announcement. Any continued discussions outside of this thread that violate server rules will be removed. We feel that everyone that has an opinion, and wanted to vent, has been heard.

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Original post:
Yesterday, we received information about the planned federation by Hexbear. The announcement thread can be found here: https://www.hexbear.net/post/280770. After reviewing the thread and the comments, it became evident that allowing Hexbear to federate would violate our rules.

Our code of conduct and server rules can be found here.

The announcement included several concerning statements, as highlighted below:

  • “Please try to keep the dirtbag lib-dunking to hexbear itself. Do not follow the Chapo Rules of Posting, instead try to engage utilizing informed rhetoric with sources to dismantle western propaganda. Posting the western atrocity propaganda and pig poop balls is hilarious but will pretty quickly get you banned and if enough of us do it defederated.”
  • “The West’s role in the world, through organizations such as NATO, the IMF, and the World Bank - among many others - are deeply harmful to the billions of people living both inside and outside of their imperial core.”
  • “These organizations constitute the modern imperial order, with the United States at its heart - we are not fooled by the term “rules-based international order.” It is in the Left’s interest for these organizations to be demolished. When and how this will occur, and what precisely comes after, is the cause of great debate and discussion on this site, but it is necessary for a better world.”

The rhetoric and goal of Hexbar are clear based on their announcement: to “dismantle western propaganda” and "demolish organizations such as NATO” shows that Hexbar has no intention of "respecting the rules of the community instance in which they are posting/commenting.” It’s to push their beliefs and ideology.

In addition, several comments from a Hexbear admin, demonstrate that instance rules will not be respected.

Here are some examples:

“I can assure you there will be no lemmygrad brigades, that energy would be better funneled into the current war against liberalism on the wider fediverse.”

“All loyal, honest, active and upright Communists must unite to oppose the liberal tendencies shown by certain people among us, and set them on the right path. This is one of the tasks on our ideological front.”

Overall community comments:

To clarify, for those who have inquired about why Hexbear versus Lemmygrad, it should be noted that we are currently exploring the possibility of defederating from Lemmygrad as well based on similar comments Hexbear has made.

Defederation should only be considered as a last resort. However, based on their comments and behavior, no positive outcomes can be expected.

We made the decision to preemptively defederate from Hexbear for these reasons. While we understand that not everyone may agree with our decision, we believe it is important to prioritize the best interests of our community.

  • ImOnADiet
    1612·
    11 months ago

    link it then. I’m not seeing anything in my first couple pages of comments… Unless you meant the death to America comment?

    And yes, when people are making jokes amongst themselves they do get to say it’s a joke, it wasn’t meant for you???

      • ImOnADiet
        1611·
        11 months ago

        holy shit I thought you meant a comment I had made, you went looking through posts on my profile? that’s 8 posts down what are you doing lol. Anyways yeah that’s not against our rules, they didn’t make that comment in someone else’s instance I don’t really understand what the issue is. they weren’t threatening anyone directly, that’s just venting

        • joe@lemmy.worldEnglish
          188·
          11 months ago

          That’s advocating violence. Are you saying advocating violence isn’t against lemmygrad’s rules?

          Edit: and how often are you going to try the “it was just a joke, bro” before it sinks in that this is not a defense?

          • ImOnADiet
            139·
            11 months ago

            because it wasn’t meant for you??? Do you eavesdrop on people’s conversations IRL and get mad at jokes they make? I never even claimed that was a joke, I said it was venting.

            Regardless, what does it matter? You can go to lemmygrad.ml and check our rules. We don’t have the same rules as lemmy.world, and our users are generally pretty good about following them. Should we defederate from lemmy.world because they allow language we don’t allow like b*itch, etc?

            • joe@lemmy.worldEnglish
              147·
              11 months ago

              What do you mean eavesdrop? Do you understand how any of this works? It wasn’t a private conversation, based on the fact that I could link directly to it.

              You’re free to advocate for defederation as you see fit. However, if your instance is the kind that celebrates “venting” (it was just venting, bro!) about murdering people, I’d say it’s pretty incompatible with lemmy.world.

              Honestly, after spending a couple minutes reading your posts and the comments on them, I found myself being reminded of the_donald on reddit.

              @lwadmin@lemmy.world

              • ImOnADiet
                910·
                11 months ago

                God I wish being purposefully obtuse on the internet was bannable. You know what I mean. people make comments on hexbear for other users of hexbear who will understand it’s a joke, not for some random .world anticommunist to come in and pretend they’ve never heard of people joking in online forums before. why did you tag the admin, just use the report button???

                • joe@lemmy.worldEnglish
                  106·
                  11 months ago

                  You misunderstand. I don’t think you said anything against the rules, so the report function isn’t appropriate. I just wanted to draw attention to the fact that it is your understanding that lemmygrad allows calls for violence.

                  And you aren’t going to convince me it was anything other than a call for violence. You can downplay it all you’d like but all that does is paint you in a worse light. Would you approve of “venting” about rape, too? If not, why not?

                  • ImOnADiet
                    105·
                    11 months ago

                    because I view rape as worse than murder, and it’s just generally really weird? I’m not ceding it as a call for violence because they’re not actually calling for anyone specific to die. They didn’t tag any users or specify any irl person, because it’s not meant to be taken 100% seriously. and yes, I can claim that, because 1) it was made for other lemmygrad users to look at and 2) it’s a comment that follows with:

                    Their levels of racism, gaslighting, minimizing, projection, annoyance, false equivalency, and laziness drives my anger to a boil that makes the Planck-Temperature look like fucking ice cream-absolute zero with a douse of liquid nitrogen by comparison.

                    like come on you can not tell me that is meant to be taken 100% seriously, they’re using extreme hyperbole all throughout the comment

                    I would personally dm one of the actual admin accounts (at least that’s what I do), how often do they even check that account they’ve made like 5 posts with it

                    Edit: ultimately you could probably find worse comments from some other accounts I know get spicier than that, I’m not trying to “downplay” it

                  • ImOnADiet
                    72·
                    11 months ago

                    so they can participate in other comms? also 1) that’s a lemmygrad comment we’re discussing, please actually read through the convos, and 2) It’s just like Reddit, there are a ton of inside jokes that don’t make sense unless you spend a certain amount of time there but that doesn’t mean you can’t show up and still enjoy it, but when someone who’s used to it goes “yeah they’re doing a bit” you don’t go accuse them of doing the insult disguised at a joke thing

            • HEISENBERG@lemmy.world
              11·
              11 months ago

              I am sure if you report anyone for calling you a b*tch there will be consequences. “No name-calling” is in the rules.

              See it is discussions like this that would happen all the time. No need for this crap.

              • ImOnADiet
                83·
                11 months ago

                what? I report people on my server all the time, I check their lemmy.world accounts I’m fairly certain I’ve never seen one actually banned from .world other than like 1 nazi, every other one is banned by lemmygrad admins only