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What's the story behind this defederation? I missed that
it does basically boil down to what other people have said but I'll elaborate.
The reasons are political disagreements from the admins of lemmy.world, and them taking the site's zealous left-wing opinions and shitposting culture as prima-facie evidence that hexbear users cannot be trusted not to break lemmy.world rules (unstated which rules) by pushing "their beliefs and ideology". It almost sounds reasonable until you think about it like, at all. It's an explicitly political instance (though honestly >50% of the posting is just news of the day and banter), so of course the users will by and large have those political opinions and post them. As long as they do so within the rules of lemmy.world I don't see the issue personally.
I can sort of understand why tbf. Just playing the devil's advocate here but the issue is that today it's fine and shitposts are shitposts but Poe's law will come into action at some point.
Oh I'm not saying the overall opinions there are ironic and will stay that way, they are very much communists (and a notable minority of anarchists), and that isn't likely to change, just that there's also a lot of shitposting, and the general jokey tone seems to be what convinced admins not to take the "hey guys you have to follow the rules of federated instances when you post there" seriously