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Do we not get new users from lemmy.ml?
Lemmy.ml users have no reason to become main Hexbear users when they can just post here from lemmy.ml, they would just reduce their ability to use anywhere else on the platform for no real gain. The users that came across from lemmyworld and elsewhere were leftists that decided they wanted a leftist instance to be their primary space because they didn't like the leadership of those other spaces. There's no real reason to leave lemmy.ml when you can use here and can't really say their leadership is any less left than here.
A socialist user is likely to leave a liberal instance for a socialist instance if they see it and like it. A socialist user isn't likely to leave a socialist instance for another socialist instance particularly if it reduces the range of content they get access to. The benefit of federation to us was always being able to suck socialist users out of the liberal spaces or convert left-sympathising liberals into socialists and then take them.
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Being defederated from .world, at the very least, is a plus. Lemmy as a whole has trended towards being monopolized by .world, and if you're federated with that instance, it mostly ends up the same no matter which instance you're on.
Having the site's own distinct character is something I would call a huge benefit. It's good to have access to a wide range of users, but not so wide that it becomes just like Reddit but federated. The centrist instances and the worst of the shitlib ones are good to defederate from, but the rest are good cross-pollination material.
We are vastly more active and would be more powerful than .world, their comments sections would be completely different if we were in them.
I've always felt that should be handled by bans, not by defederation. Banning the hoggiest hogs and just leaving behind the ones that are capable of being influenced.
The initial federation shock would be large but over several weeks the worst of the worst would be filtered out by bans, leaving behind a generally ok crowd that just need influencing.
Some of them would convert to bears, some of them would not.
This was basically the formula that worked for CTH. Although, CTH's modteam was considerably more unhinged than Hexbear's.
In that way it's kind of like tending a garden. You rip out (user ban) what threatens to bring down the diversity and integrity of it, maybe you prune (removing posts) some of the intended stuff that doesn't grow in the right direction, and you keep looking for more stuff to plant (users and content).