@CompassInspector
Fran is a woman and has a long history of sympathy of to radical politics. I see no reason to think she was going to sell the union out.

Comrade Fran o7

And it doesn't matter how many war crimes we commit or civilians we kill along the way!

I really don't get why they didn't bring on more mods from their community. They've been around for more than 6 months. There's no users that have earned the admins' trust in that time?

@Henkire
It's not a coincidence who the developers and early adopters are - people firmly opposed to capitalism don't want to be trapped on a corporate internet
@aidnic

@iridaniotter Hopefully we (Hexbear) also federate with lemmy.ml. The decision isn't made yet.

@Raphael I don't think Lemmygrad (or Hexbear, which I mostly post on) need to try and hoover up a bunch of new users from this, or worry about getting shut out. The community was getting on fine before. This will contribute some growth, which is nice, but there's no *need* to grow aggressively. Use lemmy.ml to do propaganda/agitation, because you know they'll never defederate. It'll be a useful shared forum while this remains its own independent space.

@yogthos
:blobParty:

@const_void
I always walked to school as a kid and it was very high priority to me that the neighborhood I live in now allows my kids to do the same

@elight
Tankies are right
@buda

I'm proud to be contributing to development via Liberapay for three years running now o7

@nutomic Where'd Lemmygrad go?

@absentthereaper @Lemmy_Mouse he frames trying to radicalize and then recruit people on the left fringes of liberal movements (Bernie people) as allying with liberals, which is an absolute misrepresentation. Meanwhile, he does red-brown alliance shit because libertarians have the vaguest, most non-committal "anti-war" stance imaginable. Libertarians are openly hostile to working class politics - it is the fundamental element of their ideology. Meanwhile, many communists are former libs.