Based on monthly users, Hexbear should be 7th, but we’re listed as 9th.
https://the-federation.info/platform/73
Also, there’s no users graph on Hexbear’s the-federation.info page, either.
"We were winning in all of the key locations by a lot, actually, and our numbers started miraculously getting whittled away.
The system is rigged against our Hexbears
We must be suppressed
Repressed, even
Wait Hexbear is French?
Based on IP address, yes
F U C K
We gotta add a beret to the hexbear logo
SAY WHAT!
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I’d be a little surprised if it isn’t some bug. We’re listed on Feddit’s Lemmymap, even though feddit.de pre-emptively defederated from us.
Hexbear also wasn’t listed on join-lemmy.org/instances until Nutomic told us that his crawler was hitting a syntax error when trying to parse Hexbear’s version,
0.18.3.hexbear.2at the time.
we don’t appear to be implementing nodeinfo which they use to gather metadata
edit: I was wrong: https://hexbear.net/nodeinfo/2.0.json
