The issue they stated wasn't with other federated communities, but with the users from those federated instances spamming their communities. Beehaw has a strict account policy and only want users they've personally vetted commenting and posting in their communities. So in effect they are blocking instances they've determined to be problematic by defederating them. At least that's my understanding of it.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (10 children)

The issue they stated wasn't with other federated communities, but with the users from those federated instances spamming their communities.

Yes, I understand that, but this seems to be effectively the same. Why not leave the decision to the individual users?

Beehaw has a strict account policy and only want users they've personally vetted commenting and posting in their communities.

Well, the fediverse kind of seems to be the wrong choice for them, then. It lives from the federation. If you want to be isolated it's just a plain old forum.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Seems like you are missing the point a bit.
Because of the open registration policy of those instances and the many users they do not have the necessary tools and manpower to moderate harassing and offensive posts which go against their policy (which they can absolutely set as they want, since it's their instance) so they block the users of those instances from posting and commenting for the time being.
So it's not about isolation themselves just for the sake of being and exclusive club of people but because the moderators can't handle the amount of traffic

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Blocking all users from those instances still feels like overkill for me. Just let the beehaw users block the offensive users from other instaces if they feel they need to? That would be far more selective.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Doesn't that just put the onus on blocking communities onto the individual user? If that's the case, then why bother joining a community like Beehaw - which is marked as a Safe Space for folk?

Personally, I feel it's within their rights to block communities with open signup rules, at least until better moderation tools are present.

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