Sorry (🍁) we did this without making a post, but after receiving several complaints we defederated from hexbear.net yesterday.

Here’s a few quick examples of poor conduct by hexbear users:

They warned their users to behave themselves, but that didn’t work: https://hexbear.net/post/280770?scrollToComments=false

Please read and respect the rules of the community instance in which you are posting/commenting. 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. Realize that you are a representative of the hexbear instance when you post on other instances.

  • Troy@lemmy.caEnglish
    27·
    1 year ago

    I’ve mixed feelings about this. But I support the admins, generally, and will assume they are acting in good faith.

    This is sort of like an email provider getting their domain blacklisted. Yes, it hurts some legitimate users, but they are a source of spam and crap and the nuclear option is legitimate.

    • some_guy@kbin.social
      10·
      1 year ago

      You are welcome to hop on over to any instance that isn’t defederated or even hexbear itself!

      If you have mixed feelings about removing these pieces of trash, you’re either a piece of trash too or a useful idiot.