• @tooth
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    261 year ago

    wow, they really are defederating. I think this is a major blow against the reddit replacement side of the fediverse. But then again the beehaw mods were always a bit draconic in their moderation, with forbidding dislikes and creating new communities, i think its just a matter of time until they defedarate completely from everyone since the reason they gave basically boils down to: the fediverse is too big for us

    • @[email protected]
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      221 year ago

      To be fair to them, I don’t think they ever wanted this. They just happened to be around when Lemmy started exploding. I remember their admins not being happy about being listed as “recommended” on join-lemmy.org

      They should’ve made it much more clear they weren’t interested in being a general instance and stopped this before it began. But I suppose now is better than later.

    • @[email protected]
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      201 year ago

      the fediverse is too big for us

      This. Why join the fediverse then? Just host a private web forum if you want to control who can sign up and what communities they can create and who can post what.

      • @elonspez
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        1 year ago

        Having 80% of the posts on the home page from 196 is definitely problematic. 196 users really should touch grass and post less

      • Greyscale
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        41 year ago

        If I’m on neither of the affected instances, and I’m subscribed to resources in both sides of the defederation, am I affected?

        • @[email protected]
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          1 year ago

          Not much. You might see somewhat confusing threads in which lemmy.world/shitjustworks users reply to BeeHaw users, but the BeeHaw users never respond as they can’t see them.

          And also BeeHaw communities you participate in might seem a lot more dead

        • @tooth
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          41 year ago

          no, everyone without a beehaw account is safe thankfully, you can still sub to beehaw communities, not sure if you can comment there though

  • vreraan
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    41 year ago

    It is their choice, also for this reason there is more freedom in the fediverse.

  • @[email protected]
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    21 year ago

    what exactly does it mean to defederate some instances? is it like an instance just straight up blocking another instance?