Hexbear is older than most of the fediverse, and didn’t have federation enabled for years. It’s a very self-sufficient community.

Immigrants are not only not a detriment to society, they are in fact a positive. Even the ones people in my area get mad about despite being hours and hours by interstate from the nearest border. More workers means more shit can get done, everything you’re mad about is because the system sucks and is designed to keep us in poverty.