What is lemmy.world doing defederating before hexbear even federates? lemmy.world/instances

This is what it took to defederate from exploding-heads after being federated with them since the start of lemmy.world

https://lemmy.world/post/747912?scrollToComments=true

What evidence do you have of hexbear breaking the lemmy or citizen code of conduct?

Has the criteria for defederation changed?

Hexbear is one of the largest and most active lemmy instances:

Compared to lemmy.ml:

Compared to lemm.ee:

and lemmy.world:

  • Wiwiweb@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    920·
    1 year ago

    Looks like they’re the opposite actually, tankies. Still good riddance.

    From their news post about federation:

    • One of the few instances they’ll federate with is lemmygrad
    • “We do not, as a site, have an official line regarding Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, and a wide variety of viewpoints are represented in discussions. This includes many users with varying degrees of support for Russia, which some people may find confusing or objectionable.”
    • Highly upvoted comments reacting negatively to the text above because it’s not pro-Russia enough. (“Putin is not a fundamentally evil person”, “it is a decade of diplomatic failure, with Russia trying to do the right thing and getting blamed for it.”)
    • “Do not follow the Chapo Rules of Posting, instead try to engage utilizing informed rhetoric with sources to dismantle western propaganda. Posting the western atrocity propaganda and pig poop balls is hilarious but will pretty quickly get you banned and if enough of us do it defederated. Realize that you are a representative of the hexbear instance when you post on other instances.”
    • 小黑。@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      114·
      1 year ago

      So they are operating on an allow-list, which they are being upfront about. Opposite means by which to secure a safer space like beehaw.org yet lemmy.world did not block them.

      So the site has a wide range of views? I’ve seen users on this site with varying degrees of support for Russia. Again this would qualify for blocking specific users or even communities yet blocking the instance is the choice? I am asking why.

      If upvote auditing is the metric for blocking let’s hear it but that is again a pretty strange reason to block the instance as users can easily block these pro-Russian users.

      The admins are asking the users to obey the rules of federated instances and their communities, lol the strangest reason to block of all.