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Not all instances are opinionated. From my instance I can read both hexbear and ml, and that’s pretty awesome.
Nice on getting to an instance that’s right for you!
In principle this seems cool, but having hexbear-like opinions on most other instances is a short trip to getting banned, and even on hexbear with our limited federation sphere I leave my front page on Local at least 99% of the time because when I change it to All I either see very few non-local posts or run across stuff so dumb I feel pain for having witnessed it (or spammy low quality junk). Some of the FOSS comms I should probably follow but realistically it would just result in me getting nerd sniped constantly by other people's problems
Fun fact we also have a custom improved Active sorting algorithm on hexbear, can't get that anywhere else. Makes Active usable without it getting so stale and without it optimizing for days-long shit-flinging struggle sessions like the default active algo does
honestly tho they weren't even "good" by the standards of struggle sessions lol. They would just go on endlessly with new people wandering in and nothing would ever get resolved
That's nice I guess. But the crooked lemmy ml mods blocked comms which was cowardly. So I had to come to hexbear to have unfettered access.
Which ones did they block?
dunk tank was blocked. It abruptly stopped showing up in feed and search. Turns out they blocked it.
Yeah they got defensive when we took a big ol' dunk on davel and another mod for defending pedo shit, transphobia and misogyny.
Yeah pretty gross and cowardly. Buncha crybabies on top of that to block the comm.
Hexbear remains the bastion of principled moderation of the fediverse.
I love freedom of speech
lol lmao