As the title says, should we defederate from them? They are generally very spammy and most of Lemmy agrees that they don’t contribute to the discussion in a meaningful way. At the same time they don’t break any of the rules that would cause me to defederate from them, so I thought I’d ask you, the instance users, what do you want.
Please comment what you think, this post will stay pinned for two days and afterwards we will either defederate or not.
P.S. If you ever feel like some instance would be better defederated from, do let me know! I’ll either defederate straight away if they break any of the rules, or create a post like this to let our users vote.
I’d be fine with either outcome. Threads filled with hexbears get obnoxious but I can (and should) also just avoid anything that mentions China/tankies and has 400+ comments. Ideally those posts/comms should not get federated with hexbear, because that kind of toxicity is not good for anyone, but that’s something for other instances to worry about.