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[–] Zalack@startrek.website 3 points 1 year ago (4 children)

That's not the actual reason. Hexbear was openly advocating for their "army" to brigade other instances once it was federating. It just so happens that the basis of that brigading was going to be political.

Lemmy.world pre-emptivly decided it wasn't worth the hassle of having to deal with that.

[–] TheIceKaguyaCometh@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Ohh okay. I didn't know the context but that sounds really bad. Brigading instances should be de-federated.

[–] Caoldence222@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

what's the line between brigading and just getting into political arguments though? cause hexbear is plenty good at the latter, they used to fight among themselves a lot, but doesn't really have a huge history of the former, they mostly keep to themselves since the reddit ban. Most I've seen is a handful of accounts posting in the defed announcement thread here, which like, fair enough, it was clearly a politically motivated decision. It's hard to believe they'd be any worse than lemmygrad for example, if anything they fit the culture of the wider lemmyverse a lot better (not to say lemmygrad should be defed'ed either by a general purpose instance such as this, but there is more culture shock there than hexbear)

what's the line between brigading and just getting into political arguments though?

What is the similarity?

Brigading is when you are targeting your entire group to a single post and attack users or disrupt the discussion.

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