OK, fuck, we need a new set of standards for intra-fediverse dunking. If we carry on as is, a lot of instances are gonna cut us off, justifying it with accusations of brigading and vote manipulation. Aaand... that's kinda a pretty valid reason.

Now, you might be thinking, "Well, they're gonna cut us off anyway, so what?" Yes. For some instances, they'll just be looking for an excuse to do what they wanted to do anyway. But. Some instances, that otherwise wouldn't, will probably follow suit with the good reason. We shouldn't just hand them that good reason. So, we need to be respectful and polite. How so? Well,

• One. Don't link directly to arguments in the fediverse. Hexbear users should stumble upon them naturally or not at all. So…

• B ...if you see a particularly dunk-worthy post, take a screenshot of it. You probably wanna check how your programme and/or operating system handles that and scrub any pesky meta-data out of it as need be. ~~While you’re at it, COVER THE USERNAMES. Yours and theirs. Dunking is all well and good, but shaming makes hard feelings and resentment. We don’t want to shame our neighbors, we want to have a dialog with them.~~ edit: just be carefull about metadata, nevermind the other bit

man, have I ever been surprised to learn over the past few days that lemmy is absolutely overflowing with liberal dorks

I've never lurked there, but I'd assumed from the way people talk about it that it had a very similar leftist community to Hexbear

It's actually really nice seeing these high numbers. It feels like Lemmy is getting a lot of traffic and is really active! It's just a shame that in its current state, the smaller communities get buried and are basically invisible to the front page.