Context

The main arguments for people to defederate are

  • “Embrace, extend, and extinguish” strategy: https://ploum.net/2023-06-23-how-to-kill-decentralised-networks.html
  • A potential federation with Threads (should Thread decide to implement it) would overwhelm Lemmy/Mbin/Piefed with millions of users (compared to the 40k monthly current active users), transforming those platforms into a threaded version of Facebook
  • Defederating preventively costs nothing

LW stance: https://lemmy.world/post/1274909?scrollToComments=true

  • BonerMan@ani.social
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    24 hours ago

    Hexbear? EW.

    Also they don’t actually federate anything, especially not with Lemmy as federation with Lemmy is fucked up even with mastodon, misskey and basically all the other services. Kbin was the only somewhat working other service, but from what I’ve seen its abandoned.

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      23 hours ago

      I came here to tell you that !art@hexbear.net is actually quite nice. I was going to say, by the way, that I also went there to talk with them about politics recently, got about the reaction you’d expect, and peaced out, but as long as you don’t do that, you can enjoy the nice artwork.

      And then, I realized that I haven’t seen any of the art for a few days.

      Yep! My whole instance is defederated, I think. I wrote a total of five messages.

      I think they’re a little thin-skinned lol.

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        I also went there to talk with them about politics recently, got about the reaction you’d expect, and peaced out, but as long as you don’t do that, you can enjoy the nice artwork.

        Not worth it.

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        23 hours ago

        Absolutely not worth it and I’m staying in my savespace they defederated. We are better.

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          23 hours ago

          They told me to tell you, “The bloodthirsty liberal lanyard status quo warriors aren’t inviting Hexbears to the wine cave. What a loss.”

          They also threatened to stab me with an icepick. Why not an ice axe? That would have some history behind it.

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              That’s the funny part to me. Every Lemmy edgelord likes to pretend that everyone but them on Lemmy is working for the DNC or something. I like the Democrats, and I can assure you that it’s not a popular point of view. If I had a nickel for every time the mods stepped in to ban the person I was talking to because they weren’t going along with my DNC propaganda, I’d have 0 nickels.

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                  5 hours ago

                  Democratic National Committee. The organizing machine behind the Democrats.

                  Take all the worst people in the world who still wear the blue hat, put them in charge of one of the most important tasks in the world, and make sure to pay them huge amounts of money even when they are failing harder than a one-legged man in an ass-kicking contest, and what do you get? The DNC. They’re the ones that got rid of Bernie Sanders and brought us Hillary Clinton instead.

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                    Ok, thanks for the explanation.

                    I think I speak for everyone when I say we’ve had enough of US politics to last us several years.

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            23 hours ago

            Can you tell them they should keep themselves save from me please.

            Also they defeated my instance, because they are right wing idiots larping as left wing and they can’t stand anime.