Post the links in the comments so folks can explore them and give their own input!
I would prefer none.
As @MiraculousMM@hexbear.net stated in their comment there is no real reason to open up the floodgates and dilute our site’s style and culture with content from another instance.
If you want to argue with folks, go create accounts on those instances. Don’t clutter up my experience on this site because you want to argue with a bunch of people on the internet.
It’s the same with the issue of “oh but I want to see more content from communities that hexbear doesn’t have”
Ok. Go create an account on a Lemmy instance that is federated, or the instance where that community is and participate there.
It just doesn’t make sense to me. Nobody on hexbear is hopefully using their real name, so what are you gaining by having federation? Bringing your clout with you to other sites?
It’s just silly. We all have browsers that can save logins, so it’s not about managing logins. Make new accounts on other sites and leave hexbear as it is.
It’s about bringing people into the fold. This is a great site and I want to share it. If it weren’t for pearl clutching about /r/chapotraphouse I never would have found this space. I want to see pearl clutching about hexbear.net
If you want to argue with folks, go create accounts on those instances. Don’t clutter up my experience on this site because you want to argue with a bunch of people on the internet.
worth noting that you can just filter out all posts that originate from comms/external instances that aren’t Hexbear’s. Users from other federated instances can post in Hexbear’s comms and you’ll see that - but those posts would be subject to Hexbear moderation and whatnot.
It just doesn’t make sense to me. Nobody on hexbear is hopefully using their real name, so what are you gaining by having federation? Bringing your clout with you to other sites?
more users, posts, etc. not to mention solidarity with other leftist places like lemmygrad. I mean - just look at some of the instances Bruja posted below. Is there not a single one of those that you’d maybe be interested in seeing a post from, assuming you’re not filtering by Hexbear comms only? Our Gardening/Earth comms aren’t that active and I wouldn’t mind seeing posts from Mander or The Garden, for example. And those are just some instances one person recommended that we could possibly federate with.
I’m sure we’ll get shitheads but it is worth considering what we’ll actually gain!
i go to hexbear hobby comms for leftist-centric discussion about hobbies. if I wanted to just get general hobby chat about a subject there’s a million other sites with more active userbases than the entirety of lemmy. federating would remove the unique features of hexbear hobby comms and leave them flooded with general use, general space reddit-esque discussion. sure, they’re empty and mostly unused, but when they are used they’re providing something that every other site would not provide
for instance: federating c/ttrpg with the pathfinder lemmy would A: remove piracy discussion unless some rules ceasefire could be planned and B: riddle that comm with nothing but “does perk X make my ass look big on round 3 of combat when using a full-round action?” D&D brain posts
Redditors can be banned and the Pathfinder instance isn’t responsible for material that is on a different instance
“possumpat.io - instance hosting communities for some niche interests and hobbies [possums, ff14, gundam]” This is literally just my interests, wtf.
I’m only up to Zeta but I think every faction sucks so far. Someone needs to bring some space communism to Universal Century.
I have only watched the most recent series and there just aren’t many things characters do that are controversial among viewers. There’s not even any anti-capitalist opposition group. Poor prospects for redbaiting. 😔
As for the inverse to this question, what instances would we not want to federate with, I’ve got the matapacos.dog block-list. It isn’t super comprehensive, but it includes many of the most notable reactionary / loli / bot instances, as well as whatever has stumbled across my radar so far. A little over 100 in total, including some new Lemmy instances which have been overrun by spam bots or are run by outright reactionaries.
It looks like the porn instances are beginning to find their footing, so that’s another thing to contend with.
There’s no reason not to federate with those instances. If people here want to subscribe to them and participate in them let them, people do not have to see anything they do not want to see as they can block NSFW content entirely or they can block comms. Ditch the ones with illegal or extremely questionable content (loli etc).
lemmy.world because that’s where I mainly am
I really really don’t think it’ll be inundated. Some will come in and get educated, some dunked, and some banned, depending on what they are up to. If it actually ends up being too much, it’s not difficult to reverse the decision.
I like this kind of radical thinking, open the floodgates, close them as needed.
maybe, but the site almost imploded when that vegan subreddit lifeboated here. it might not be a great comparison but i still think trouble like that is plausible.
Also some of our more popular posts get enough votes that I think they’d show up on All in other lemmys.
