lemm.ee federates with all three of the mentioned instances, so they are definitely seeing the posts from those instances.

People say he’s the greatest footballer of all time.

just like how they moved from hexbear and grad to ml

Hexbear wasn’t even federated to begin with. It’s not like defederating from them made them move to lemmy.ml. lemmy.ml was always a leftist instance (though I feel like it has gotten somewhat poisoned towards the right with the reddit wave).

Huh. I must have mixed it up with another instance then

Note that .world has never been federated with them.

(actually they were for a short while, right after hexbear started federating with other instances (hexbear had until then been completely isolated from the rest of the fediverse as their fork of lemmy didn’t support federation). that was a very chaotic time though)

Those “idiots” are the developers of lemmy.

At least with hexbear you should be able to stop any further responses by stating within the comment that you wish to disengage from the conversation.

https://hexbear.net/code_of_conduct :

Any discussions may be opted out of by disengaging

However, do not add anything else as hexbear’s disengage rule only applies if you don’t use it to have the last word in the matter.

Also, while some hexbear posts may sometimes contain nudity (though I have never seen any pornography on there and it’s probably not even allowed), it should be labeled as such. Anything potentially triggering or unwanted should have content warnings in the title.

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The pictures were uploaded in 2016, so the service mistakenly thinks that it happened that year, when in fact it was taken 195x and just uploaded decades later.

That’s weird, because it also has 2 downvotes for me at the moment (which means it can’t be some weird federation issue), but assuming that you originally saw 2 downvotes before I came along, then something something can’t be right because I am one of the two downvoters and I only saw the comment some hours after your comment in this thread (judging from the timestamp of my comment) (or maybe I visited the post once, then came back to leave a comment?).

Is it still -2 for you though?

It’s two downvotes (at least on lemmy.ml at this point in time). Is it hard to imagine that 2 out of 16 people could dislike seeing someone say that anything that doesn’t fit their narrative is the result of bots?

What makes you think it isn’t just real people?

There are socks with padding?

I use bookmarks for stuff that I know that I will some day in the future want to go back to. I don’t bookmark every link I open, because I want my bookmarks to only have the “good stuff”, ie. stuff that I know I will need often or in the future.

I now have installed an auto tab discarter extension, so I can keep all those tabs open without using too many resources but still be able to go back to them when I need to.