YSK: If you're on Lemmy.World or Sh.itjust.works you should not subscribe to any Beehaw communities
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
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Why have they done that? Has Lemmy World done something? Or are they trying to keep themselves exclusive?
Yeah man beehaw is supposed to be like a safe space for minorities and stuff. It’s been around for a while and is strictly moderated. Once all this Reddit shit calms down and there are better moderation tools on the lemmy side they’ll rejoin - it’s just too much to deal with without the right tools right now Ave they are still working on making the tools.
This Reddit shit sped up a lot of stuff that was already in the works.
Ah ok, thanks for that. That's a shame though, so far what I've seen of Lemmy has been so much less toxic than Reddit, you'd hope it wasn't necessary for them to defederate. However if they feel it is necessary, then fair enough I guess.
Well, by definition you don’t see the crap that moderators are removing, so it’s hard to say how toxic it has truly been from their perspective.
Fair point.
They're curating a particular community to try to avoid trolls and shitposters and lemmy.world was growing so fast that they didn't have the mods or tools to keep everything in line to their satisfaction on their own instance. Once they're happy with their mod abilities they'll probably refederate.
Thanks, that's really interesting and a good explanation from them. Appreciate the share.
Ironically, I couldn't initially open the link in my app, probably because the defederation! Got it to open in a browser though.
Since Lemmy.world and sh.itjust.works had fully opened sign ups with no vetting during the big migration, Beehaw was getting a lot of trolls and spammers coming from those instances. Since Lemmy is kind of new there weren't enough moderation tools for them to fully deal with that with their team so they defederated until those tools exist.