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Beehaw has decided to defederate from lemmy.world and sh.itjust.works. I believe it was already separated from lemmygrad. I think this makes this community the largest one accessible to the most instances whereas before [email protected] was. I guess we'll have to make the most of it!

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Calling it "sublemmy" is incredibly cursed

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Sublemminal

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I wait for the day when there is enough contents here for bookcirclejerk to exist

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

I'm re-reading Mistborn yet again in anticipation. Sando bless

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I checked their instance page and it seems lile they are still federated with lemmy.ml

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Sorry, I've fixed it in my post

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Why is beehaw going it's own way? I mean I kinda understand that lemmygrad might have a different world view, but why the rest?

[–] [email protected] -1 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

all the instances suffer from influx of new users and others don't federate because of trolls... Bad decision i think

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Why did beehaw defederate?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Cowardice it seems.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Beehaw seems to be a very strict instance purely aimed at creating a very bubble-wrapped environment for its users. That's fine, but I fear a lot of "new" people to the fediverse may have signed up there purely because it's popular without really considering or understanding the very specific types of communities some instances attempt to create. Now suddenly there's probably many people on that instance who'll either be wondering why they're seeing less content, or others having to create accounts on more general instances.

Not really criticizing the decision or how Beehaw operates. That's the beauty of the fediverse. I just think this might be confusing and off-putting at this particular moment when Lemmy is receiving a lot of attention from reddit refugees.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

They couldn't handle the massive influx of new users and need better moderation tools, they plan to federate again when they get control of the situation.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

This plus they specifically didn't like the openness of these communities vs. their more stringent process (since they're trying to create a specific vibe.)