We’ve already defederated one tanky instance, and frankly I think I’ve rarely had a positive interaction with Hexbear users. Their defence of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, or of China’s genocide against the Uighur people, is hard enough to stomach. But what prompted me to post this is their commentary in this thread where even without any of the propaganda-based reasons to justify their beliefs, they seem to delight in being rude arseholes to people.
Personally, I don’t think they provide us any real value, no we’d be better off without them, just as we are better off without lemmygrad and exploding-heads.
With the ability to block instances yourself in 0.19, there’s really no reason to defederate from instances unless they are causing disproportionate strain on our moderation resources and their admins refuse to do anything about it
The issue isn’t exclusively with our communities though, because they still show up elsewhere.