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Your instance won’t be affected, except hexbear / blahaj folks won’t see each other.

Good for them. Amateur hour over here.

Read the hexbear post in the OP, they explain it pretty well.

What communities exactly have they been detrimental to?

He should probably be wary too.

It’s hosted on AWS, the internets thinks is a US east coast data center.

Yes, this exactly. I left another instance because of too heavy-handed moderation, don’t really want it again, and especially not over a problem that began when someone didn’t like seeing annoying things in the All feed and Lemmy’s broken sorting.

As could very easily be expected. As has happened before and likely will again. Judging anything based on people upset when you bring up an inflammatory topic about them is no basis for a sound judgement.

We’ve had two other threads that they can easily see and they have not touched (except voting, presumably). That seems like the particular problem was solved.

You were hardly neutral when you made the request in the first place.