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I wouldn't say so at all. The admins took action to defederate from the alt-right
explodingheads.cominstance because the content there broke the servers rules here, and they made a similar judgment with HexBear because of their apparent intention to brigade.While the decision to defederate from HB was arguably premature, the admins here do at least seem more concerned with protecting their users than they are with deplatforming specific political stances.
From what I recall about the exploding-heads debacle, there was a lot of polls and hand-wringing before defederating. An actual last resort. I spent hours on hexbear last night, it seemed like they mostly shitpost in the comments. Nothing I saw indicated that they were going to brigade or harass people on LW.
Have you read the admin's explanation post? They cited posts from HexBear admins which suggested they were intending to stir things up on other instances after federation.
Again, I don't necessarily agree with the decision, but either way it seems to not be about political ideology as much as keeping out unpleasant behavior.
I saw them referring to a year old post about brigading Reddit which saw major pushback from the community, is that what you mean? Like I said in other comments, I was on HB for hours last night and didn't see anything that stood out as a rules violation in LW.
The first time is always the hardest. After that, its easy, because theres precedent.