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Defederating from Hexbear.net (startrek.website)

submitted 3 weeks ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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This instance has defederated from hexbear.net for violating our rules against propaganda as outlined in our Terms of Service. If you are unfamiliar, federation means two servers sync and host each other's content. Defederation stops us from syncing their content to our server.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

What took so long?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Defederation is the nuclear option. Until now we had removed any communities we weren't comfortable hosting, and treated users on a case-by-case basis based on how they behaved in our communities, which worked for a while but became untenable.

When we started this project the admin team felt that welcoming outsiders into our (wholesome, sane) Star Trek communities was the net-positive action. But as I said it became too much to handle so we unfortunately had to cut the cord.