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

  • @[email protected]
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    391 year ago

    At the time LW and SJW had few barriers to signing up, so they had a higher rate of spam coming in and the beehaw team said they couldn’t keep up with moderating it. No idea if this is still the case, but they remain federated.

      • @[email protected]
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        441 year ago

        I thought about that while typing it but I thought it was kinda funny so decided to leave it haha

        • @13igTyme
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          191 year ago

          We need to replace dumb acronyms with better ones, anyway.

        • mochi
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          61 year ago

          I wonder if that was intentional on the instance owner’s part?

          • @tobor
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            1 year ago

            Nah definitely not. I don’t know about the owner but there was definitely too much “debate” on whether to defederate from exploding heads for my liking, felt a little too “free speech-y” so I set up on lemmy.world instead