In preparation for federation with Hexbear

For those that don't know, Hexbear has been back on lemmy for a few months now and can therefore federate with all of Lemmy again.

For those who don't know Hexbear, they're an instance based around left unity and more shitposty than us but you know, I still like to browse there because they're very, very active and funny.

Hexbear will federate by the end of the month with Lemmygrad, which means you'll be able to visit and interact with them from the "All" tab, and they can do likewise.

We expect that federation will be going smoothly and our two cultures won't clash too much, but we also expect some friction at least in the beginning.

As a reminder, we apply Lemmygrad rules on Lemmygrad, and Hexbear will, I imagine, apply their rules on their instance. Likewise we won't be moderating stuff that happens on Hexbear if it only concerns Hexbear. If it involves a Lemmygradian we might moderate (see PS below for more info on how that works).

For Hexbearians that visit Lemmygrad (I assume they'll make the same post on their end so I won't explain how Hexbear works), we're principally Marxist-Leninist but allow non-marxists piecemeal as long as liberalism doesn't come out of their mouths. It's all by the principle of good faith; we do talk to people if they come here in good faith, which I have no doubt will be the case from Hexbear.

With that said we'll also be more lenient towards Hexbear since with them, we form essentially the only left presence on Lemmy and we like them very much. We also urge everyone to be lenient with Hexbearians even if they're not marxists.

Anyway, while Hexbear is more left unity, in all my time browsing there I've never really had to ask "is this person a marxist?" so their system seems to work well. However, I also expect that since their registrations are open, we might see wreckers and infiltrators make hexbear accounts to troll Lemmygrad. Likewise on their end, it's possible someone requests an account on Lemmygrad to try and troll them. In which case we'll deal with the offender on an individual basis.

If you have any questions about federation with Hexbear ask them below.

PS: the way comment/post reports work is that if you report a comment on Hexbear with your Lemmygrad account, we'll see it. So please only report stuff you see on Hexbear if it's something we should actually take a look at, or it's something that breaks Hexbear's rules cause your reports help them too.