Is hexbear.net/chapo.chat federated? They seem very active but when I search for a community hosted there on a different server it doesn’t show up?
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as far as i’m aware it is not, because:
- they use a variant of lemmy which literally doesn’t federate with the rest of lemmy (because it was developed and forked before that was even a thing–they’re a very old instance), and they don’t have the developers to rectify that;
- and separately, there’s not… really? a desire on the part of anybody to federate, either on hexbear’s side or on lemmy’s. it’d be far more beneficial to lemmy than hexbear, anyways
They using a forked version of an earlier version of Lemmy (from before there was federation functionality). They have built up some additional features that Lemmy doesn’t have, which is why they don’t just migrate to the latest version of Lemmy.
They are working on migrating. Here is a post from (I think) an Admin that explains more (originallinkk might be broken but you can see some of the post in my beehaw link): https://beehaw.org/post/299431
