Currently the stance for this instance is defederation as a last resort so everyone can participate in the coding chats. If a community on a connected instance breaks our rules the community will be removed from the instance and things such as politics communities will be hidden from the all feed once we can get that coded in since lemmy itself isnt capable of doing it very well yet (its a feature but only through the backend and painful to do in bulk)

A bunch of hexbear communities fall into the hidden in the all feed category so wont show up to people unless they explicitly look for it by searching and subscribing. Should be pushed out once I can dedicate time to coding it in and ill announce in this community when it has