Hexbear will be federating soon, there should be pinned post explaining it
Hexbear will be federating soon, there should be pinned post explaining it
Hello Users of Hexbear I wanted to have a featured post discussing the next steps for federation. We have discussed this at length among the mod team, and it is pretty much evenly split between federating based on a "block-list" or federating based on an "allow-list". While the mod team slightly ske...
Hexbear is far more likely to have users entering and using our comms, being another large socialist instance, albeit dedicated to left unity rather than Marxism like ourselves. I think there is enough of a culture change that we need to have a pinned post for hexbear users coming here explaining what kind of content/attitudes they might see here/what different rules to follow
There should also be a section dedicated to explaining to lemmygrad users to respect hexbear comm rules and what to expect from their users etc.
I think this would help ease any potential cross site struggle sessions
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Looking forward to Hexbear federation. I don't know much about Hexbear, but they seem decent, and I hope it will provide a counter-balance against the lib infestation that came over from
.How much is Hexbear different from Lemmygrad?
More joking around, high use of custom emotes, more arguments over frivolous things, and a commitment to left unity. It is dominated by Marxist-Leninists, but you're not supposed to attack anarchists basically. Everyone also has a pronoun flair, and there are content warnings on meat for vegans.
The biggest part is probably site culture. Lemmygrad is a mixture of people who fled here from genzedong, the original people who started this place, and the newest influx of r*dditors. Hexbear came from when r/chapotraphouse banned, and I believe had several other of its own off site influxes). This obviously has led to different memes, posting cultures etc. I think an example of the site culture differences is that because Hexbear came from r/chapotraphouse, it's far more shiposty than lemmygrad. Not to say that we don't shitpost, or they don't effortpost, but our shitposts are mostly confined to comms like [email protected] etc. Their shitposts are also far more unhinged sometimes, I have seen some insane shit in hexbear even having only been there a month.
Another big part is the site rules (which also contributes to some of the site culutre differences). For instance, you can't shit on anarchists as hard or in the same way on hexbear as here, it will get you banned. There are no downvotes on hexbear, so as well as having more users than us they also have more struggle sessions in that the only way to express any disagreement is to leave a comment, here if you dislike a comment you can just downvote and move on (This is just my opinion and only part of it, there are other reasons they have more active comment threads).
The downvotes thing is funny because that's a UI change if I'm not mistaken. So if I'm browsing from a mobile app I'm fairly certain I can downvote. There's nothing about their back end to my understanding (which is limited) that prevents downvotes from being federated or being calculated in their algorithm rank.I wonder if they're even aware that could be a possibility. Would they really want to federate if it meant that other instances could come in and download their threads and comments when they can't?Unless I'm wildly off base here this would extend to federated communities. Meaning they wouldn't be able to vote down content that is appearing in federated communities from other federated instances via their UI?I am incorrect, the server will reject downvotes with this setting enabled! Carry on!
I think I've seen dessalines somewhere writing that it is a part of the setting on that instance, so it isn't just UI change.
I don't think that's how it works actually, they should have it turned off entirely, even if they get downvotes their backend will discard them.
Ah ok, interesting! Did a little more digging and that does appear to be the case. Disregard!