Blahaj’s admin has refederated with Hexbear, using most Blahaj users unhappy and baffled. No communication from the admins regarding the change, though one user speculated it was a halloween trick. Multiple pings to the admin Ada have gone unanswered, even though Ada is clearly still active on Lemmy.
I removed hexbear from the blocklist, as they are defederated from us, and I was unaware that it would mean that hexbear users and blahaj users would be able to interact on 3rd party instances. I’ll add them back for now.
Ultimately, the reason I removed them from the list now is that once we have the ability to let users block instances on a per user level, I am open to the idea of refederating with hexbear, because I am aware that many of their trans and gender diverse users want the ability to connect with our trans communities, and trans solidarity is something that I hold to be very important. Enough that I am willing to give this all another go.
However, it was only meant to happen after blahaj users had the option to opt out of interacting with hexbear users, and after I had made an announcement letting people know it was coming. I apologise for the screw up leading to a mini refederation before I gave people a heads up and before the tools were in place to let people choose whether they engage with hexbear users.
Yeah, any time you try to engage with Hexbear in good faith it always goes sideways because they do not operate in good faith.
I don’t really care about inclusivity when the people being included are derogatory and an overall detriment to the environment. That’s not inclusion, that’s just letting the assholes seep in and win.
Like the other poster said, they should just sign up for Blahaj and play by their rules. That’s the only way to ensure the communities stay healthy.
Sounds like the better solution would be that users on hexbear should join blahaj directly and comply with their rules if they want to talk with other people
Also a mystery to me how anyone, Ada included, could possibly conclude Hexbear had anything of value to offer anyone. Any trans people on Hexbear rather than somewhere else are sure to be joining in Hexbear shit like genocide denial.
No one said that and that doesn’t contradict my statement. Especially when we’re talking in context of Internet sub-communities, my statement is extremely true especially with “radical” communities that ‘Talk the talk’ online but make no difference in the physical world
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