Meh

looks pointedly at the 2lbs bag of pretzels I have stashed in my office desk

Fun fact: 99-years-old is still a viable age at which to be drawn and quartered

It's been a disorienting couple of weeks for me as a casual user. I seem to miss a lot of what is going on, but the results of federation seem to have largely resulted in a lot of fighting with other instances before one side gives up and cuts ties. I know the intent is to bring in users who are either already on board or are otherwise open to our politics, but is the way forward to just test against any other version of Lemmy until we have burned through all of them?

I don't know that I'm making much sense, but it just seems like a lot of turbulence and all of our collective focus has been towards that and I suppose my concern is what the overall effect on the site's culture will be. Dunking on libs is fun, but if that's all it becomes with the collateral of our trans comrades, for example, getting caught in the crossfire, I don't know if all of this is worth it. Hexbear has been a touchstone to make sure I'm not completely insane in the midst of the most brainwormed shit in the Internet and I would hate for that to get lost somewhere along the way.

I know that we have instances that we play nice with, but all the turbulence of the past week, while funny, makes me think that the entire concept of federation is flawed.