As many other threads have popped up about this over the last few days, I thought I’d raise a thread on kbin about this too.
From what I’ve seen, they seem like mainly inflammatory trolls who steadfastly support either Russia or the CCP while adding little of value to actual discussions elsewhere on the site.
Was a vote to federate with them in the first place even had?
What’s everyone’s thoughts?
Nonscientific strawpoll:
As others have mentioned, hexbear hasn’t added us to their list of allowed instances yet. They block everyone by default. I’m definitely in favor of following lemmy.world’s lead on this and preemptively defederating them, though.
Kbin does already block lemmygrad, and hexbear is basically just lemmygrad with a vaporwave theme and an even more annoying culture. I imagine this is just a question of when @ernest gets around to blocking them. That could potentially be a while though, so it’s probably worth pestering him a bit on this particular issue.