Is hexbear.net/chapo.chat federated? They seem very active but when I search for a community hosted there on a different server it doesn’t show up?
as far as i’m aware it is not, because:
- they use a variant of lemmy which literally doesn’t federate with the rest of lemmy (because it was developed and forked before that was even a thing–they’re a very old instance), and they don’t have the developers to rectify that;
- and separately, there’s not… really? a desire on the part of anybody to federate, either on hexbear’s side or on lemmy’s. it’d be far more beneficial to lemmy than hexbear, anyways
That’s what I thought. They seem to be doing fine on their own with an extremely weird subculture of their own. (they made an iceberg lol) Thanks!
They using a forked version of an earlier version of Lemmy (from before there was federation functionality). They have built up some additional features that Lemmy doesn’t have, which is why they don’t just migrate to the latest version of Lemmy.
They are working on migrating. Here is a post from (I think) an Admin that explains more (originallinkk might be broken but you can see some of the post in my beehaw link): https://beehaw.org/post/299431
I believe they are actively talking about the prospect of federating. There was a post not too long ago asking people to vote on how they would do it. (Either a black list of sites they don’t want to be involved with, or a white list of only the specific sites they want to be involved with, or not federating at all). Seemed to be a hot topic of debate.
Thanks for the reply. It seems like they’re trying to move upstream with lemmy and gain some of the new features, possibly including federation. Let’s hope they prove to be in good faith if they federate and not another tankie instance (lemmygrad).