Hi folks!
As most of you have already noticed, the technical issues blocking federation have finally been worked out, and we have refederated with Lemmygrad! Federation with other instances will come after we have confirmed no lingering ill effects from the retvrn-to-chapochat period, likely within the day. The change happened ~12 hours ago, but some further cajoling was necessary to get the servers actually talking again. (Edit: re-federation with other instances has begun. Edit 2: federation now enabled for all previously fed'ed instances)
Lemmygrad comrades, we are so happy to be back 
(Thanks for making this graphic @TheImmortalScienceML@lemmygrad.ml )
Very happy to see my hexbear comrades back in the fediverse. Lemmy was libbing out way too hard, I left reddit years ago and would hate to see our beloved platform turn into another reddit. All hail the dirtbag left and hexbear!