Hexbear has a bit over 20 thousand users, similar to Lemmy. Both Lemmy and Hexbear would benefit from federation. So, what’s missing?
Didn’t Hexbear run a heavily modified fork of Lemmy? Getting it to federate would be one of a hassle.
This, they forked Lemmy some time ago and made some major changes, so its not easy to merge. But they are slowly working on it, check links below.
Gosh why even fork Lemmy?
At the time Lemmy was not federating and they wanted to add some stuff like stickers and some other cool stuff, so now that federation works it is more complicated.
Wow, Lemmy without federation? That doesn’t sound like Lemmy! :)
When are we getting stickers?
I’m going to make my own Lemmy, with blackjack and stickers!
LemmyNSFW has forked the lemmy UI to add an option to auto-expand images, IIRC
Damn what a shame… Having Hexbear as part of the community would give us a real leg up.
I’d really like to spin up a lemmy instance, but it’s got a higher bar to entry than expected.
They are based on a fork of lemmy that added features that made it incompatible with lemmy. However, there is an active body of work taking place to bring it back to lemmy compatability and allow federation to take place again.
I’m not sure where that work is at though
