No real surprises, but the list pales compared to Lemmygrad's still, they have 3x as many defeds.
A lot of that is because they use a block list while we use an allow list, so a lot of instances haven't defederated with us bc we haven't federated with them in the first place.
Does anyone else find it really, really funny that the only nationality instance to defed from us so far is Canada? I mean, I get why, but I honestly expected the UK one to leave us first.
Lib LGBT is the community that probably does the whole "LGBT is western decadence" stuff in reverse. If you're gay and live in the third world, you don't matter, unless you can be used as tool to make fun of the "backwards savages" in the third world that don't give LGBT people rights. Despite my country legalising LGBT rights a decade before any of these western countries
Western consumerism has driven ever more individual identity and the fetishization of said identity. It's no surprise that many are incapable of universalism, intersectionality, and larger class or social analysis.
In fairness, I kinda get it for any small instances, Hexbear federation typically means a lot of arguments with libs, and that can be a big burden on moderation no matter your politics. All the love to our blind comrades though.
And honestly, I can't blame any non-general instance for defederating when a sizable bunch of users are very trigger-happy with spamming PPB on other instances.
I can at least understand why Beehaw did. They defederated from lemmy.world at the beginning because they take moderation pretty seriously and couldn't keep up with the sheer size of Lemmy.world. Hexbear is simply too active within their fediverse to keep up with all the shit that comes along with Hexbear. Even if it isn't users from here being a bit spammy (I'll be honest, it sometimes is though, it was the same when Chapo was on Reddit) the responses to Hexbear users just have a lot more vitriol than is worth introducing into a space like Beehaw.
Beehaw is very cool about applying for alt accounts as long as you haven't been banned and that's one thing good about the fediverse. You are allowed to go over there, but you have to follow their rules. They don't really fuck with instances with open sign up because of how seriously they take moderation there, so honestly dropping Hexbear pre-emptively is fine. They're pretty consistent with how they federate and defederate around their ability to moderate everything.
Idk, I think with federation we have to understand that Hexbear comes with a huge open sign up userbase with controversial opinions. And particularly active commenters compared to the rest of the fediverse. There are some instances we simply are not compatible with.