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Edit - Hexbear announced plans to deferedate from us.

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After recent events, it feels to me that sentiment has shifted and more people are asking for defederation of hexbear than previously

I’ve been doing my best to try and mend bridges and keep us connected, as it’s my hope that we can maintain trans solidarity and work with them, despite the friction, however, ultimately, I feel that this is an issue for the blahaj lemmy community to decide, not the admins alone

So here’s what we’re going to do

We’re going to leave things as they are for a week. That will give time for things to calm down whilst we see if we can work together. After a week, I’ll put up a vote and get a feel for where the community is at in regards to our continued federation with hexbear. That poll will run for a week. If there is a strong will to defederate (a clear majority), then that’s what we will do

  • nonbinarytwink
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    1 year ago

    You equating them to trumpists means you’re being wildly disingenuous. I get that you hates the hexbears, clearly. But disagreements on the internet do not equal the damage trumpists do in real life, and comparing the two as equals just makes you sound like an extremist who has an agenda against hexbear. Have hexbears tried to raid the capital? Have they directly threatened politicians? Have they installed a president like Trump? Have they committed voter fraud? Did they try to raid an fbi office, attempt to kidnap the governor of Michigan, attempt to overthrow an election, did they put laws into effect limiting my rights, I could obviously go on… Hexbear is not even slightly the same, and to say so makes you seem like someone trying to shift the perception in your favor by making this decision seem polarized; black and white, yes and no, bad guys vs good guys.

    Shitty beliefs and shitty policies are all over the left and right spectrum, I don’t have to agree with everything hexbear users have to say to think conversations with them are still important. Hell, if right wing nuts actually bothered to talk instead of react and yell I’d even attempt to have conversations with them, in spite of having completely different values. If truly you feel that strongly, block them if you want. But you don’t get to make that choice for me, the admins do.

    I’m going to block you now, because it seems like you’re hard-pressed to convince me to defederate, then having a genuine discussion. And I’d rather not continue talking with someone who seems disingenuous and makes these kind of gigantic “both sides” leaps in comparing Trumpists and Hexbear members. That’s straight up slander friend. Not cool.