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Great to see all this growth and activity in different lemmy instances!
They've defederated from both lemmy.world and sh.itjust.works. They're still a good community, but I don't consider them part of the fediverse at this point.
They defederated with the some of the largest instances that have open registration due to the influx of people causing issues in their own communities and the lack of mod tools to address the issue. People are still pissy about it despite beehaw admins stating they will lift the defederation once lemmy mod tools improve…
They kept saying that they need more moderation tools. Does anyone know what they wanted that Lemmy doesn’t already offer?
A big one is probably mods being able to mark posts as nsfw, ability to set posting restrictions for users with new accounts, less buggy mod queue. As of right now it’s not really feasible for a small team to moderate a large community on lemmy. There was a multitude of tools on Reddit that existed that made larger communities run smoothly, nearly all of which just don’t exist here yet. Just general growing pains of a new platform I think.
True, but even a “large” beehaw community is small by Reddit’s standards. Couldn’t they just appoint more moderators? Lemmy allows mods to create more mods for a community.
I think the biggest issue they had highlighted (that I witnessed myself, unfortunately) mainly was people with clear bad faith intentions entering beehaw's spaces designated for discussions of and about vulnerable communities and individuals that beehaw wants to make sure to protect as part of their community ethos. Discussions that were calm and respectful and didn't devolve into chaos previously due to the barrier blocks in their community quickly fell apart due to large swaths of users who were able to enter the community without any barriers that would have been stopped quickly if they had tried to sign up to beehaw. Like, a lot of it was really was the lack of post restrictions within their local communities. An example off the top of my head, beehaw requires you to fill out a form to basically make sure you are wanting to join in line with their community policies. For those that get the false impression that they are asking for a large essay or were asking for censorship and get dissuaded because of that, beehaws admin seem to feel that is a good deterrent to those who wouldn't engage in good faith within their community anyway. And it seemed to work on its own, but it quickly fell apart as huge amounts of signups began the surge across the two instances they defederated. Individuals who began to cause problems and enter the communities to troll, were almost all from those instances. It was a matter of they literally can only ban and delete, and with how the modding system in lemmy current system is, it was a losing game of whack a mole they currently cannot win.
Ohhh, that's good to hear. I didn't know about that last part. Hopefully this will get resolved so they can be more open while still doing their own thing.
The weird stuff that happens after defederation seems to me to be one of those wonky things that might keep users away from this kind of platform. Especially with a lot of the intro guides to the fediverse saying things like "it doesn't matter which instance you choose, you can go still go to any community."
Maybe as the instances deals with growing pains and communities get better moderation, defederation can become more of a last resort so these places can feel more connected.
Where did I say it was unsafe? I was pointing out the dishonesty people have been showing in regards to discussing the reason why beehaw chose to defederate.
Where did I say it was unsafe?
Beehaw did imply that, the communication with Ruud was poor, and their "moderation" excuse is simply them acting in bad faith and you seem to agree with them.
They might have implied as such (I don't personally think they did, but such an observation is objective.), but I myself didn't in the post above, and to say I did is dishonest. For the record, I believe they did what they had to do with the limited options they currently have. And I did not like it. Hence why I made an account on here as well. It's not a fascist regime, and I was pointing out the fact that the people acting like it is are being ridiculous. I directly witnessed the reasons why they defederated and quite ironically, an immense rise of interactions escalating precisely like this causing issues in their own communities and limited staffing to address such (especially towards the vulnerable minority communities beehaw wants to protect in ways reddit did not) in a short amount of time is quite exactly why they chose to defederate. Have a lovely day.
I don't think it helps your argument when you're the same one qualifying those who, rightfully, think that Beehaw's move is a dick move, as people being:
dishonest
and
still pissy about it
People are being pissy about it for dishonest reasons is what I meant, if that clarification helps.
Hopefully from the downvotes (to almightysnoo) it's clear that most of us understand what you're saying. I don't begrudge Lemmy its growing pains and the same goes for Beehaw. We're just trying to make it work with what we have, and what we have is expanding quickly, so that encouraging!
I'm glad you and others have been sharing the perspective of what's happening at Beehaw and why, and also that so many people have been sharing what's going on with Lemmy and its bugs and updates.
Edited for clarification
why are you taking it so personally, it really isn't a big deal; they outright said they might refed when lemmy mod tools improve
Regardless of what happened, beehaw is not for everyone.
They aim to be a safe haven for people that are afraid to be harassed for who they are. It's a noble goal IMO but to achieve that, they have to moderate their instance quite heavily.
If you're not their target audience, you'll find it too restrictive.
you might want to look at the list of instances they blocked (your lemmygrad.ml instance is on the list btw)
you're on lemmygrad.ml, you probably haven't noticed that they defederated from your instance too
