Hello, this is Carcosa and my hexbear account made both the post and comment that was referenced by the .world admins.

The comment referenced by .world admins was a throw away comment and not a “instance representing statement” I have come to realize that is impossible on an admin account and should not have made the comment.

The post itself was an instance statement, but as cowbee has pointed out in the original post the sentence that the .world admins bolded was not. In addition the .world admin post left out context such as the fact that a portion of the statement was a collaboration of the “news mega crew” which is a large group of moderators and users who primarily interact through the instance through the site pinned news mega post.

As also mentioned hexbear existed for years before federation and was a frequent target for raids organized by other places. Combined with no downvotes this created a unique site posting culture that I knew would clash with the wider fediverse. I was hoping to try and bridge the gap in any way i could.

Including working with other instance admins however the initial poisoning of the well done by the .world admins in matrix has made that difficult.

There was heated discussion in the admin matrix between myself and antik over the fact he was convinced that hexbear brigades but as I said then and will now.

Show me where there is a credible call to action from an admin/mod targeting a specific instance, community, user, post or comment.

There isn’t and the descendant of the instance that abused the rammy instance is still federated (hilarious-chaos) Those admins made credible calls to action asking their users to brigade a linked post. Hexbear has never done that.

One of hilarious chaos’ admins alice intentionally leaked out of context screenshots from those admin matrix channels to maliciously attack other instance admins is no problem for .world admins who remain federated with hilarious-chaos.

Based on these facts (.world remains federated with hilarious chaos despite their admins engaging in two forms of toxic behaviors while pre-emtively defederating from hexbear) one can conclude that political differences is the motivation. I would respect that being the stated reasoning more than the bad-faith accusations made.

Regardless Hexbear users will never vote to federate with .world so the ultimately any discussion of federation between .world and hexbear is pointless.