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[–] Snowpix@lemmy.ca 20 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (92 children)

Surprise surprise, Hexbear users came to brigade other instances exactly the way they said they would. Bad actors through and through.

[–] brain_in_a_box@hexbear.net 40 points 1 year ago (13 children)

Learn how federation works, or better yet, go back to reddit.

[–] diablexical@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago (7 children)

Is it possible to block all users from an instance at once?

[–] PM_ME_YOUR_FOUCAULTS@hexbear.net 18 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Have you tried shutting your eyes, putting your fingers in your ears and singing loudly

[–] diablexical@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] PM_ME_YOUR_FOUCAULTS@hexbear.net 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] diablexical@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

Fyi if someone comes across this - best approach on regular lemmy now seems to be to have account with an instance like https://sopuli.xyz/ which has defederated hexbear, lemmygrad, etc. Kbin and some frontend apps allow this as well.

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