Hi all, it's whitepwrfan69, your lovely admin here at lemmy.balls. The mod team and I have been hard at work making sure that this place is fun and pleasant experience for all the users here. After days of discussion, looking through literal petabytes of data, we've decided the best course of action is to defederate from Hexbear. Although we very much believe in free speech, there are some pretty obvious dangers coming from federation with them. Let me list the top examples that me and the mod team fleshed out.

Regularly advocate for violence
They have no respect for private property
Completely filled with hopeless trolls
They have bots that spam users with aggressive links
And lastly, why the fuck is everyone named Owl?!?!?!

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[–] rhubarb@hexbear.net 55 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Free speech is very important to me, so I appreciate the hesitation you showed before preemptively defederating from those commies

[–] SacredExcrement@hexbear.net 21 points 2 months ago

Hexbear banned me because they were constantly policing my language

Yes I called someone a very serious racial slur and made an analogy about Trump fellating Putin to demean both of them but I don't see why that's relevant