New account but I've been using burner accounts and lurking since the sub got banned. I've been seeing all the standard liberal brainworms again for the first time since 
and everytime it's an account from another federation. I was tepidly against federation at first but this has been entertaining, like the old days of 
people who wandered into the sub.
I gotta imagine this will only last another week before everyone defederates us, but let's enjoy it for now.
People here were worried about federation but I think given that we aren't on the old subreddit anymore a lot of the problems that used to exist are moot. Back on Reddit you used to have to worry that posting in cth would result in you being targeted in almost any other subreddit regardless of the content you were posting. Then there was the issue with potentially being shadowbanned or banned outright as well.
They can just defederate here if they want. Otherwise I feel fairly free to interact with libs or chuds as much as I want, with the one caveat that the real bad actors have to be moderated, causing more work for the mod teams.
Overall it seems fine. It's nice seeing people from other instances being able to come in and talk, for the most part. Seems much more alive now (which is great for me since I love mostly lurking)
I agree completely. I'm still sorting by local because I don't really feel like i vibe with what I see what sorting by all (not in a bad way per se, just doesn't really tickle my fancy like real
posts) but i've seen some good comments in our threads from folks on lemmygrad in particular so all in all I've been satisfied
It's sometimes fun to check in with the rest of lemmy if I catch up on all the content here
a lot of the more interesting threads in all are also mostly hexbears posting lol