I think it’s pretty safe to say that the majority of us are here to avoid another corporate takeover of our preferred platforms. It would seem to me to be a tad irresponsible to allow Facebook into our space with open arms, allowing them to hoover up our data. I would love to keep using Lemmy.world, but will happily change instances if need be, and I feel many share that sentiment.
34 blocked servers at current count, not great not terrible.
While I don’t generally consider hexbear leftist (they’re more militant liberal tenderqueers), I agree that de-federation is usually a bad idea, and should generally be reserved as a last resort for stuff like pedos.