Why YSK: Beehaw defederated from Lemmy.World and Sh.itjust.works effectively shadowbanning anyone from those instances. You will not be able to interact with their users or posts.

Edit: A lot of people are asking why Beehaw did this. I want to keep this post informational and not color it with my personal opinion. I am adding a link to the Beehaw announcement if you are interested in reading it, you can form your own views. https://beehaw.org/post/567170

  • @RiazEnglish
    48•1 year ago

    Or just ignore them and let become less popular and soon enough the important communities will move away or be replaced. I really dislike how many influence communities are in such a one dimensional instance, luckily I have already seen a few of those moving over to .world or elsewhere and I can’t wait!

    I like to have people with all sorts of backgrounds and opinions in my instance, not just everyone with the same black and white viewpoint!

    • @SwallowsDickEnglish
      14•1 year ago

      Yeah, it’s a hard balance to follow. Of course you want full, natural diversity of people and opinions in a group. But hateful right wing toxicity is also way overrepresented online, and has to be moderated against if you don’t want a niche online platform to turn into 4chan or whatever

    • Jack.English
      10•1 year ago

      Yeah. Beehaw is trying to make an echo chamber and it’s best to stray away from that approach.

    • @[email protected]English
      3•1 year ago

      Yeah, many subreddits were/are getting ridiculous in this area. Silencing people is not the way. I’d rather openly discuss why something that’s said was shitty then pretend the person never said it.

      This said, astro-turfing is a thing, and that is a downside to low or no moderation…