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

    • 👁️👄👁️English
      -5•1 year ago

      tldr; too hard to mod. That’s pretty dumb, but the cool thing with the fedi is you can just not care and swap instances.

      • @t0eEnglish
        2•1 year ago

        Mod work in general is going to be a tough issue for everyone to solve. Different places will have different norms they want to enforce, and a limited volunteer staff to push that agenda. But there’s nothing that can’t be automated. Automate the creation of AI mods, automate the selection of user mods, automate the banning of objectionable comments and users using a combination of both humans and AI to both handle the workload and adhere to community regulations. If these tools can be developed as part of lemmy, automated moderation can become an available option for all instances, which hopefully will mean that moderation here will be better quality and lower cost than moderation on that other social media site, I’m forgetting the name.

    • @what_is_a_nameEnglish
      -12•1 year ago

      Those are good points. Time to find a different instance. My account is not precious. Supporting a sustainable growth is.

      The slowness of Lemmy.world to defederate from the fascists, and now this makes me feel I can find a better home. A home that is a better partner to the fediverse.

      • MathiasTCKEnglish
        6•1 year ago

        I will be curious to learn what works best for you.

        • @what_is_a_nameEnglish
          2•1 year ago

          Probably a smaller server. I need to do some more research. Lemmy.world one of the highlighted big servers when I joined during one of the waves from Reddit. I am sure there are plenty better smaller /mid-size server LD, I could join instead.

      • lightrushEnglish
        9•1 year ago

        You may find that we really like safe spaces on Lemmy.

        • @t0eEnglish
          2•1 year ago

          I like safe time, but that’s much harder to come by.