Do you know any Lemmy instances not federated with other ones, living by themselves? Do you know any interesting or creative use case for a not federated instance?

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[–] ada@lemmy.blahaj.zone 33 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Hexbear was the only instance with a sizable user base that used to do this, but these days they federate too

[–] IlIllIIIllIlIlIIlI@lemmy.world 13 points 5 days ago (3 children)

Do you know why they were not federated and then changed to federation?

[–] Diva@lemmy.ml 25 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

I believe they forked from Lemmy before federation existed close to 4 years ago, added things like custom emojis and then only re-merged after federation was implemented then turned it on.

[–] Cethin@lemmy.zip 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Ah, that explains why their custom emojis don't render correctly anywhere else. I wish that piece of code would get merged into the main version so it'd be less annoying.

[–] Diva@lemmy.ml 2 points 4 days ago

I wish they would merge in the pronoun support too, one of the better hexbear features imo.

[–] ada@lemmy.blahaj.zone 12 points 5 days ago

They were running a self maintained fork of lemmy that wasn't compatible, though I don't know if that was the original reason

[–] OpenStars@piefed.social 6 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Hexbear essentially predated federation iirc, then migrated to Lemmy when that became possible. Hexbear is I think roughly the 3rd oldest instance - sorting its posts by Old shows that it is 4 years old, while lemmygrad.ml is 5 years old, and lemmy.ml is 6 years old. Lemmy.ca in Canada and the Finnish sopuli are both also 4 years old, mander.xyz is 3 years old, but Lemmy.world, by far the largest instance with ~80% of all users, is only ~2 years old, being formed at the time of the Rexodus.

Read some more about it here (don't click the link there to follow further - in true hexbear trolling fashion it will simply take you to a picture showing a pig in the act of pooping, you have been warned) and especially here, e.g.:

Two of the sites listed there, Hexbear (aka. chapo.chat) and Bakchodi, do not federate. They are not part of the Fediverse, but they are using Lemmy. Hexbear is actually running their own fork of Lemmy.

TLDR: bc they felt like it, then they didn't, now it seems like they almost do again, bc facts are nearly always stranger than fiction:-).

[–] comfy@lemmy.ml 1 points 4 days ago

and especially here

Good to know that old post is still useful. (It's also nice to see that wolfballs, bakchodi and exploding-heads all died.)