I would prefer none.

As @MiraculousMM@hexbear.net stated in their comment there is no real reason to open up the floodgates and dilute our site’s style and culture with content from another instance.

If you want to argue with folks, go create accounts on those instances. Don’t clutter up my experience on this site because you want to argue with a bunch of people on the internet.

It’s the same with the issue of “oh but I want to see more content from communities that hexbear doesn’t have”

Ok. Go create an account on a Lemmy instance that is federated, or the instance where that community is and participate there.

It just doesn’t make sense to me. Nobody on hexbear is hopefully using their real name, so what are you gaining by having federation? Bringing your clout with you to other sites?

It’s just silly. We all have browsers that can save logins, so it’s not about managing logins. Make new accounts on other sites and leave hexbear as it is.