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It is getting wild out there. (midwest.social)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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So, I got curious and set my feed to all. Wow, there a lot of arguments about defederation due to the Beehaw decision. Many Many people positing on "the death of Reddit" and the refugee crisis. I get some of the concerns about moderation and ideology but the amount of navelgazing is unreal. Ill just stick to local for a bit until things settle down.

So, how are you finding the big, wide fediverse outside of our pleasant little pocket? With all of the thinkpieces being posted about how Lemmy is never going to work, I wanted to see some fresh takes from the good folk at midwest.social.

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

As someone new to the whole fediverse thing... what is Beehaw, what's going on, and why should I be concerned?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Beehaw is the third largest instance (midwest.social is an instance). Beehaw decided to defederate from lemmy.world and sh.itjustworks, after some users from those instances were brigading beehaw posts, since they don't have good enough mod tools to address it the way they'd like.

It should be a temporary measure until better mod tools are developed, and at that point they will consider refederating with those instances

In the meantime, that means users from those instances can't interact with Beehaw users, and vice versa

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

From what I see, it is about their recent decision to defederate from two other big Lemmy instances (sh.itjust.works and lemmy.world), because these instances (where the registration is open, contrary to beehaw) bring a lot of trolls and moderation burden for Beehaw admins. They had a chat with sh.itjust.works admin staff and both are in agreement that until there are better mod tools, there's not much more that can be done for now.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

The difference language between the sh.itjust.works admin and their user's comments is kinda crazy. There were so many bad takes saying "this will destroy the lemmy-verse". Like, no it won't. The community will survive.