I know I'm not in trouble, but I do feel bad that I'm probably the reason blahaj.zone will defederate with hexbear. I just thought they had an insane take on what hexbear was and posted it in the_dunk_tank. I included a link because I am not a 
but also I am a and so are all of you and I'm sorry for that as well.
I'm pretty frustrated that the admin of the instance thinks we're brigading. An admin should know that we're getting their posts in our feed because we're federated. We are just a big instance and we overwhelm the level of activity they're used to seeing when it comes into our feed.
I am wondering if lemmy sorts content in a way that's causing this situation though. Maybe it considers a post more interesting if it gets more activity than a typical post on their instance. So as soon as it appears on hexbear, the score on the post goes way way up and it gets pinned on hexbear for a long time.
I'm betting your theory is right. I think we're a lot more active than the rest of the fediverse and I didn't expect that. I thought we had a nice quiet little community over here lol
we were hibernating before
I mean, even pre-federation we were pretty dominant in post/comment activity.
She sees any dunk tank post of content on their instances as inherently brigading, is my interpretation
But I queried the API, before the dunk tank post went up the comments on that post were already 1/3 hexbear users. Now its about half. So while it probably had an impact it wasn't like nobody here was going to see the original post, regardless of it containing bad takes that got it featured in the dunk tank
Though honestly I'm fine with, and actually would suggest
not posting at all in meta discussions on other servers, at least until lemmy implements the ability to have local-only comms, which I think we would also appreciate here, and
not linking to dunk tank content on federated servers. If it comes up in people's feed it's fair game, and if people want to tear their arguments to shreds in the dunk tank, fair game, but we don't need to encourage actual brigading by providing a direct link, as a show of mutual respect for instances we fed with.
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And yes, lemmy's dogshit Active algorithm is a struggle session factory, it's truly bad.
fwiw I think this is our official admin stance after what happened yesterday
yes, I suppose I should have made that clearer