I'm all for defederating Hexbear, but lemmy.ml is absolutely huge compared to Hexbear. To motivate the community to do that you'd need quite a bit of proof. Or at least something rather compelling. Do you have any proof of what you're referring to?
This is really interesting. But how well does it actually work? I'm attempting a personal server on a Raspberry pi right now but the compiling is taking a huge amount of time.
Active enough considering the scale of the community.