For background, the dev team at Hexbear forked Lemmy a while back and implemented various features. The team is now working on porting those features back to Lemmy proper, to eventually enable porting the entire Hexbear site back onto Lemmy. This will enable federating.

Features ported this time include:

  • Modlog filters
  • Comment rate limits
  • Visual improvements to post listings

In future we can expect to see Hexbear’s pronoun tags and custom emotes coming back to Lemmy.