this post was submitted on 15 Jun 2023
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lemmy.worldandsh.itjust.worksusers: https://lemmy.world/post/149743.In short, they were having trouble maintaining their moderation standards. In an incredibly short-sighted move, they've split the lemmyverse... offloading the costs of their moderation choices to the rest of us who now have to deal with incredibly confusing asymmetrical replication.
They've called this move, but there's no schedule for restoring federation and no set list of criteria for when will enable that to happen. I would say it's more "open-ended" in that they haven't committed to defederating forever, but there's no useful limit on the duration of the defederation either.
This sounds incredibly dumb. The nice thing about the feddyverse is that you can receive content from other servers and comment on it imho. Very disappointing.
Wel, they explain that in this case, it wasn't all that nice to receive content from other servers, because it was a lot of work to moderate posts of users from two instances with no sign up requirements. They also said they couldnt wait on moderation tools being developed. They'll refederate once the storm dies down I strongly believe.
To describe this as defederating from "two instances" really undersells the impact. Those two instances represent 40% of the active userbase of the top ten instances in the lemmyverse in the last month, or well more than 30% of the entire active lemmyverse. When you add beehaw's active user count into the mix, over 50% of the lemmyverse has been cut off from each other. This is an absolutely massive disruption to the federated network that will impact everyone for months to come... and has already created far far more moderation and support work than it has saved. See https://the-federation.info/platform/73 for user stats.