Now that I (I think) understand federation I was going to unblock the beehaw communities since I should still be able to vote and comment on them but I can’t find them now.

  • Action [email protected]
    2•2 years ago

    I don’t think their issue was with them being communists. Most of what I see getting mentioned there is reaction towards anti-LGBT discourse and usernames and the like.

    I don’t disagree though that they’ll probably not end up re-federating. More likely it just ends up reverting back to a fairly small instance as other spaces fill out. I don’t think their community policies or goals are scalable or even long-term sustainable. It requires too much moderator intervention and the protocol is just a firehose of information that can’t be easily controlled other than just turning it off.

    It’s gonna see some Galapagos Syndrome as its users become more and more self-contained.

    • @[email protected]
      1•2 years ago

      When some liberals find themselves on the right wing of an argument, a really common rhetorical strategy they use is to pivot to accuse their opponents of being socially backwards. Most of the anti-LGBT critiques coming from the Beehaw camp are just materially uninformed attempts to claim moral high ground and deflect away from an actual heavy hitting discussion

      • Action [email protected]
        1•2 years ago

        Possible, but if that were the case, I think they would have defeded a long time ago. The fact that they didn’t hit the button until the Reddit crisis makes me suspect that they’re probably being honest about it.

        If they were really that concerned about anti-communist ideological purity, why would they have allowed federation when, as a raw percentage, even more of the community was hardcore communist prior to the flood of new users?