Yesterday, we received information about the planned federation by Hexbear. The
announcement thread can be found here: https://www.hexbear.net/post/280770
[https://www.hexbear.net/post/280770]. After reviewing the thread and the
comments, it became evident that allowing Hexbear to federate would vio...
The rhetoric and goal of Hexbar are clear based on their announcement: to “dismantle western propaganda” and "demolish organizations such as NATO” shows that Hexbar has no intention of "respecting the rules of the community instance in which they are posting/commenting.” It’s to push their beliefs and ideology.
Lemmy.world wasn't on the original allowlist that people voted on, and I'm not sad that we're not federating with the off-brand vanilla-flavored redditors at .world.
I still hope that we manage to stick it out with the hobby communities tho.
Unless their mods are on some sort of anti-left kick I think we'll be fine with those smaller hobby communities. We're pretty chill in general I think (when not directly presented with fash-apologists) and even here most of the niche comms barely have much politics in them as is.
I'd love to see us eventually federate with some sports communities. Yes I know shit can be reactionary, but they can also be fun.
I'm not a big sports guy at all, but yeah I'd pop in occasionally to something motorsports orientated or to drop obscure, often left wing, football facts.
I had the username ChestRockwell on the fuckedcompany f3 forum. Weird to see it.
Those are great names!
the soccer subreddit is actually one of the more nuanced on
when it comes to politics. Most of them have witnessed the commodification of their interest happen in real time and it's only accelerating. Plus the blatant hypocrisy and corruption in all facets of the sport reflects the real world well.
Soccer has an extremely low entry-cost. You can enjoy and play soccer wherever you have a ball and two sticks
don't even need the sticks - just two spare articles of clothing or bags, which also provides the fun of arguing whether the ball went over the 'inside' of the jumper on the ground and is therefore a goal
I sucked at football growing up, and never really enjoyed watching or playing it, but goddamn this brings back so much nostalgia.
It also helps football has less Burgerlanders.
As long as the sport is something Americans aren't particularly passionate about like football or cricket.
Their brick-shitting response was totally worth it, lol
Virgin not federating shit instances vs chad getting shit instances to save us the trouble by defederating from us